[…]vern, who I worked with, who came from the BBC, didn't he?John P Hamilton Yes.Joan Kemp-Welch: And the firm wanted to get rid of him and so Granada gave him an office and three secretaries and no work to do for a year, and he committed suicide. These are tragedies that occurred and, for th[…]
[…] in those days it was all live.LW: You also had to be careful about keeping to your running time.WT: Yes, terribly difficult. Another thing I did for Granada, was I had done a production which was very famous at the time of Orpheus in the Underworld. It’s now been, after 21 years they have got rid o[…]
[…] this, "I know the family a bit, I think I can help you find him". And by that evening with the help of Douglas Terry, who later became a producer at Granada, as it happens. [00:02:07] He was Armenian? [00:02:09] I think, yes, and trained as an orchestra conductor But he was out of work wo[…]
[…]ss being a creature of habit. So I did a fourth year, which was a film, a very basic film introduction course. And I managed, managed to get a job at Granada Television as a trainee camera operator, video camera operator, which was November 68 I'm now coming up to my 21 years so I'm still there. You[…]
[…]ar school, BECTU grammar school, yes, whereRoy Fowler  3:33  was barters, the grammar school.Unknown Speaker  3:36  It is now the Granada cinema of grammarRoy Fowler  3:42  school. Right. It's no longer the longer the Granada cinema is the Granada bingoSpeaker 1  3[…]
[…] swallow, who was legendary, really, to a lot of people of my generation. He had made very, very good films, he made a series called this England for Granada. And he championed me really, I was 28.Unknown Speaker  23:49  And he gave me my chance, and he was supportive. Another thing I lear[…]
[…]t of quota that the non big five companies, ITV was organised into the big five and the rest and the big five were London Weekend, Thames Television, Granada, Central and I've forgotten the other one! I: Yorkshire. R: Yorkshire, thank you! And STV and other companies were fobbed off with a[…]
[…]so difficult to find work in the theatre. Unless you were someone like Roy Battersby, whom I’d been at college with as well. He got one of those rare Granada internships and things like that, which I failed to do. So like all good third class honours arts graduates I became a journalist. Which was w[…]
[…]  interviewerJohn Harwood History Unit CameraHow did you get into television?Canadian temp said to him would you like to write scripts for Granada TV. Interviewed by Granada TV go on short list. got job after no experience payed £11 per week moved to Granada land to flat.First jobmaking t[…]
[…]he Rank Organisation, and of course the ABC circuit. So those were your main three circuits. There were quite a number of large independents.INT Like Granada?MF: Granada, exactly. In the north there was HD Moorhouse - I think they probably had about 25-30 situations, Jimmy Brennan who was quite a ch[…]
