[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] try you out for four months. " And here's where Granada comes in. And so I took over drama and […]
[…]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 […]
[…] = made friends with Michael when he first ran the Granada , his Granada film programme, [Cinema . DS] with […]
[…]n I raised that point with you just know about the stageiness of them you look back to the great days of television dramas so-called Sydney Newman at Granada and you know the early Alan Owen plays for instance No Trains to Lime Street. I mean they were all studio bound, there was no ...Roy Fowler:Oh[…]
[…]ed on, the programmes would be serviced by in Yorkshire television, if you're doing wrestling from Leeds, my Yorkshire television, from Manchester by Granada and so on. He didn't get the same treatment up there, as he got down here, which makes for a very special rapport, but he was worth it. Becaus[…]
[…]course by the time finished, gone, shooting ratio was almost 1 to 1Julia Cave: Yeah.Norman Swallow: I’m going back 32 years. That was for Granada not the BBC.Alan Lawson: But anywayJulia Cave: But that revolution has changed the way everybody thinks about everything and what’s actu[…]
[…] Armchair 30 (1973) series of short plays and contributing to Granada’s Lady Killers (1980-81) crime serial. SUMMARY: In this interview, […]
[…]replace yourself. ANNE HANFORD: I did, yes I did.SUE MALDEN: So who did you get for that?ANNE HANFORD: I got Janet Andrew from Granada.SUE MALDEN: So she also had … ANNE HANFORD: No hang on, what am I talking about, no I got Tony Treble. Sorry I am leap[…]
