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[…] trouble, couldn’t work, and Sidney Be rnstein was just starting Granada. Sidney had left wing connections: Eisenstein, London Film Society […]

[…] called Komisarjevsky, who designed, incidentally, all the interiors of the Granada cinemas. Rodney Giesler: Really? Dicky Leeman: Yes. Rodney Giesler: […]

[…]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 that, and I went on tour with it. And that was produced by a great guy called Komisarjevsky, who designed, incidentally, all the interiors of the Granada cinemas.Rodney Giesler: Really?Dicky Leeman: Yes.Rodney Giesler: Who were the personalities of the time who impressed you?Dicky Leeman: In the[…]

[…]list, Dennis Pitts who used to be the editor of the Girly magazine – what was it called? Lilliput.NS: Was he? Was he the Dennis Pitts that worked for Granada?DMW: Yes.NS: I knew him.DMW: Then it all starts to go wrong: Oh, we did The Royal Command Variety Show, that was fun -then Till Death Do Us Pa[…]

[…]ion coming out who've never worked anywhere else. So they know what's bad, but they don't know what's good. They've not worked the BBC, not worked in Granada, they've not worked here and there. They don't know what's good. Then I think it's time to go. Because what's the good of trying to produce ex[…]

[…]y Keith Waterhouse and very present to work on Jerry enstes has operated for a long time, and after that, after that, got the chance to do a film for Granada TV called staying on, which was a novel by Paul Scott, one of the series, the first, probably of the jewel in the crown books he did. It had S[…]

[…]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 […]

[…] 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[…]