[…]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[…]
[…]occasion when I had ever met a counterpart of mine who worked in commercial television.  I had literally never met a producer who worked in Granada or AR or any of the other commercial organisations, it's a strange indication of the enclosed nature of the BBC system that even though we wer[…]
[…]EAKER: M3It's Margaret Bottomley who worked for Ronnie and you didn't know market Bonny only. She she directed for. She did. You know those things at Granada where they had people when they were growing up ten years later. Oh she did some of though. Yes because a director who would want to listen an[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]and all sorts of jealousies, what I gather, although I've never been to one of their committee meetings. For instance if something as an example from Granada has been turned down as a second series because IT hasn't worked, it may have been an absolute turkey too and not deserved a second series, th[…]
[…] as a Shakespearean actor but also remembered for television roles such as Fagin in the 1985 BBC production of Oliver Twist and Professor Moriarty in Granada Television’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985). Rachel Roberts (1927-1980) was a Welsh film actress best known for her roles in Saturda[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
