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Gallery - Ending the Post Office Go-Slow

Television (Full Length) – 1970

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
...in preparation for this improbable confrontation, I had come to two conclusions — that the continuation of the go-slow related less to the actual issues than to the complete breakdown of communication between the parties involved, and that 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

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