Gallery - Ending the Post Office Go-Slow

All hail, O Brian Edwards! Last night on Gallery, alone and unafraid, in one of the most dramatic confrontations we’ve ever seen on New Zealand television he ended the Post Office 'strike'.

– The Taranaki Herald, 1970

...the chicken and the egg phenomenon, with government refusing to talk until the Post Office Association called off the go-slow and the Post Office Association refusing to call off the go-slow until government agreed to talk, was, at this level of industrial relations, nothing less than infantile.

– Brian Edwards in his 1971 book The Public Eye

There's an energy and excitement about it [live broadcasting] that you don't get when you pre-record, and a sense that anything can happen. And because, by definition, it's unedited, there's an implicit honesty about the live broadcast. What you see is really what you get.

– Brian Edwards on his preference for live broadcasting, TV Week (The Dominion Post), 6 July 2003, page 15

It was really just a matter of playing devil's advocate to both sides — which is what you normally do in this sort of thing — and finally convincing them that really they were essentially saying the same things.

– Brian Edwards in a July 2011 ScreenTalk interview for NZ On Screen