James Arthur Clark

[…]d at some point that Malcolm wasn't good enough and was going to fire him. And John phoned me up one morning when I was in Sheffield doing a film for Granada. I was making that film for Dennis Mitchell called a delivery man which one night in Sheffield and I was in some boarding house in Sheffield h[…]

Taylor Downing

[…]ng me that I had to leave the building [Murray laughs] as part of industrial action for the rest of the staff film researchers, so I went to work for Granada. Got a job in those days, seems extraordinary now, but you left somewhere on a Friday, started somewhere else on a Monday. And I got a job wit[…]

Lois Singer

[…]ecording is vested in the BECTU  History Project.The name of the interviewee is Lois Singer. Her last discipline and grade is L 18. That is television production. The name of the interviewer is Joyce Robinson. The date is the 16th of August 1993. side one Lois only one way to begin, when a[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]nbsp;working with four of them in different parts of the world on location jobs Granada Television desperately needed the crewing they had the administrative ability but […]

Moira Armstrong

[…] Detective, well, that’s where I met up a very good producer. Ah.Deirdre Keir, who’s Andrew Keir’s daughter. Now Deirdre in fact has, came up through Granada as, you know, production manager sort of and she really knows her onions.Yes.And she’s very good at getting a unit to work together, one of th[…]

Richard Levin

[…]deal with that one by one on your own orNorman Swallow  21:14  something to be fair, I found the same thing. When I left the BBC, I went to Granada. And I found that they had the same virtues of the BBC has that you're talking about? I found myself with them protected in the same way? in a[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]to, didn’t yer um you started providing er World in Action didn’t you?SAMUELSON: Yes, ............... that was a wonderful contract forus. They, when Granada set up World in Action it was run from Golden Square (yes) and they decided that ....they’d used us many time that instead of taking on the ov[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…] what George got up to particularly where the ladies were concerned. We now come actually to the point where I saw my first film, and I saw it in the Granada as it was then in Sevenoaks, and it was George Formby in "It's in the Air" which I think was directed by Anthony Kimmins.  Anthony Kimmin[…]

Roger Davis

[…]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[…]

Cy Young

[…]gned I mean in those days you could put yourself where you could find another job people did. long time ago in the mid sixties.There was a program on Granada Television called Cinema which was later presented by Mike Parkinson but it was a roundup of all the films they show. It's old and new movies […]
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