LindsayPerigo
- Broadcaster
During the late 80s and early 90s Lindsay Perigo anchored on a run of high profile TVNZ news and current affairs shows, where he gained a reputation as the “doyen of political interviewers” (Metro magazine). The opera-loving broadcaster abandoned television in 1993 — famously calling the medium "braindead" — and reinvented himself as an apostle of libertarian philosophical doctrines (on radio, in print and online).
Screenography
Biography
Born in 1951, Lindsay Perigo grew up in Feilding, where he preferred opera and political philosophy to sports. "When my peers were watching Maxwell Smart, I was reading Marx and Engels", he told magazine Full Context in 1997. At Feilding High School (where school colleague Tom Scott recalls him as intelligent and self-contained) Perigo conducted the school choir, endured bullies, and enjoyed reason-based examination of ideas: “saying why is this so and is this the best way it could be.”
Awards
1980 Bill Toft Memorial Trophy
Broadcaster of the Year
“The person many politicians fear but regard as New Zealand’s best interviewer.”