Brian Edwards

Brian Edwards began making his reputation in the late 1960s as one of the country's toughest television interviewers. In 1971 an Edwards interview on current affairs show Gallery famously helped end an ongoing post office dispute. He went on to present a host of interview-based shows, and played a big hand in the creation of longrunning consumer rights show Fair Go.

...the toughest and best was Brian Edwards. On Gallery he had a lean, hunched, withdrawn inscrutability about him. Veteran television interviewer Ian Johnstone on New Zealand's best interviewers, in his 1998 book Stand and Deliver, page 49