MaggieBarry
- Presenter
A lover of gardens from childhood with a diploma in horticulture, Maggie Barry spent four years on the news frontline as co-host of National Radio’s Morning Report from 1986 to 1989. As presenter of TV hit Maggie’s Garden Show she was the face of NZ gardening for 12 years. After time in freelance journalism and radio she was elected MP for North Shore in 2011, and became a cabinet minister in 2014.
Screenography
Biography
In a 1986 North and South profile, Maggie Barry’s high school career advisor was quoted as saying, “No-one will be able to tell Margaret what she’s got to do. She’ll find her niche in life…there’ll be no stopping her”. At the time Barry was the youngest host of Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report, and the first woman to hold the position. She would reinvent herself several times over, finding niches in television current affairs, as TV's pre-eminent gardener, and as an MP.
Awards
2003 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Lifestyle Series: Maggie's Garden Show
2002 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Presenter: for Maggie's Garden Show
“You have to give 110% as a presenter. Otherwise you look bad and ruin it for everyone else around. I couldn’t live with that. It would be my greatest fear that I’d let people down by being too tired or slack about something.”