[…]said to me, if you want more money, you're going to have to go elsewhere. So I sort of looked around and there were two other cinemas in Enfield, the Granada and the Florida. And there was nothing going there, but they told me there was a job going at the Queen's Palmers green. Now that was only abo[…]
[…]50 years ago in 1973. You were the news editor for UTP reports. I was a rather callow youth just out of university, and I was applying for a job with Granada TV. And I, as a student that was watching what UTB did. One thing to remember, is the lunch break, you and your colleagues, you all blink cric[…]
[…]BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both went into into television, broadcas[…]
[…]as an interesting introduction to television.But I stayed there for three years, and I had a director called David Rea, David C Rea. He had been with Granada as a studio cameraman, and he was a film man really. And I learned so much in those first three years at Dover .. I learned from him, I had a […]
[…]eople in the lab who were dealing with it I would be the next level up. Particularly in dealing with TV companies. So you would… if you had work with Granada, which was being processed at Humphries in Manchester, then if there was a serious problem, and it went over the head of the local lab, then I[…]
[…] a bad morning! I: But it was on quality as well as money, wasn't it? Well, it should have been! R: Ah, yes, quality, it was allegedly that Granada, I think, managed to get a qualification, the straight money thing, that quality, there would be a quality hurdle and that would be taken into[…]
[…]he Design Department were, perhaps, more mature and had, sort of, (this sounds terrible), but washed up in STV. You know, because they'd come up from Granada and their careers were maybe slightly on the wane. You know and I was just dead excited about the whole thing and I just loved it! [10:05[…]
[…]are getting close. That’s it! Er, 2005, The Walk. From There to Here. PB-C: I don’t know that. DB: Director Mark Brozil. Production Company Granada. PB-C: Not me. It’s Crispin again! DS: I’ll explain that after. DB: Right, so that’s the end of my notes. PB-C: The Broadc[…]
[…]shaming if we lost so lacked a little confidence in us, but we went ahead and we put together a team and had a very enjoyable day recording up in the Granada studios in Manchester, and we had a hard fought match against the RSPB, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which we won. But, sadl[…]
[…]nd also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Editor. And I think I went to Yorkshire TV or Granada or is it, not sure which which was which at the time, but I was accepted on to the London Trainee Assistant Film Editor course and it was goin[…]
