Family Law With Maria Battaglia - host biography

Birthplace? Montréal


What's the best thing about living in Montreal?
The cultural diversity and cultural communities, and especially all the activities and festivals available to us

Most memorable moment in your radio career?
There are two moments, (1) a 15-year-old girl who had been abducted by her father when she was 11 years old and her father was now in jail for kidnapping; (2), a nine-year-old boy calling to ask if his parents could take that money he had put in his piggy bank.


Favorite person you interviewed and why?
The most compelling and difficult interviews  I have done are those interviews of parents of missing children during the Missing Children's Network radiothon

Other than Montreal, where else would you love to live someday?
I would not live anywhere else, but the beautiful city of Montréal.  This is my home and will continue to be my home.


When you have friends visit Montreal from elsewhere for the first time, what's the one thing you insist they see/do?

A day out on the town having breakfast, lunch and supper at three different favorite restaurants, while visiting the sites in between.

What's the weirdest job you've ever had?
Answering the phone at stands by travel agency.  Some of the callers were so strange that I was afraid to put them on a plane when other people


Favorite Hobby/Pastime?
Reading, skiing and skating. More recently, hanging out with family and friends.


Favorite magazine?
People magazine, easy to read, fast, and it's just gossip

If you could have one superpower, what would it be, and why?
The power to allow all children in the world to have happy childhoods, and enough food to survive


Favorite television show of all time?
Street legal.  I was a young lawyer, and that's the closest I came to watching Canadian lawyers on television.


TV Show that you'd most like to appear on, and why?
Oprah she is an example of rags to riches that I admire

Famous person (living or dead) you'd most like to have lunch with
Princess Diana and Oprah

If they made a movie about you, what actor would you like to play you?
Meg Ryan she can play a diversity of roles and make my life worth putting on a screen. My second choice would be Jodie Foster she is one superb actor!

What's your #1 pet peeve?
People who whine about everything


Whom do you admire the most?
My parents for their dedication to their children