[…]e, I mean, those were the days when Lew was around. When Howard Thomas was still around. When Sidney Bernstein and Cecil, indeed, were at Granada. And Denis Forman, of course. And who else? And London Weekend Television was then run by John Freeman. I mean, it was[…]
[…]went to Manchester with all of the footage and they turned it into a World in Action which went out on the Monday night so that was his wildcard into Granada. [04:33]And, once he'd been there for about a year or so, he got in contact with me and said, "Look, you're wasting your time lecturing i[…]
[…]oard" that's how it started in what capacity did youcome aboard?Denis Forman: That is a matter for debate. Never been settled, I never had a title in Granada. I wasChairman of the Furniture Committee, that was my first title and I bought the cheapest possiblefurniture in Tottenham Court Road with Ch[…]
[…] debate. Never been settled, I never had a title in Granada. I was Chairman of the Furniture Committee, that was […]
[…]hnny Morgan We did this. I made a fewcommercials, not very many. And early on we got our deal with Granada which really kept us going. And the deal with Granada was that one or the other of us would be there at any time […]
[…] trouble, couldn’t work, and Sidney Be rnstein was just starting Granada. Sidney had left wing connections: Eisenstein, London Film Society […]
[…]ndon franchise. And carrying the network.DS: Then ATV took up.JPH: Weekend, Saturdays and Sundays and the rest of them crept in gradually – Granada about a year later, 1956. In fact Rediffusion sustained Granada for a very long time, they never acknowledge it these days, but they woul[…]
[…] a very limited sort of way. It was not a Granada - they said if you could last the week […]
[…]equel later on, which we'll be talking about. But, during that period, there was the big strike which brought out all the theatres, the Gaumonts, the Granadas, everything. All shut down because projectionists were pulled out on strike by the ETU, which was the organiser for projectionists.Alan Lawso[…]
