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Biography: Toogood, Selwyn Featherston

Beauty and the beast

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In this excerpt from a 1983 episode of Beauty and the beast, Selwyn and the panel discuss the weighty question of whether knives should face inwards or outwards in a table setting. In the photograph, Selwyn Toogood meets former Beauty and the beast panellists, including Governor-General Dame Cath Tizard, at Government House in January 1996. Left to right: Elle Stephenson, Tizard, Shona McFarlane, Toogood, Phillipa Tate, Les Moodie.

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Tim Shoebridge. 'Toogood, Selwyn Featherston', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47288/beauty-and-the-beast (accessed 4 June 2026).