[…]Kneale. I thought it was a pretty marvellous selection really. Nigel Kneale, Philip Mackie, who disappeared almost overnight to go to, head up drama, Granada Television. Mm, Giles Cooper, and I forget who the third was. But Nigel Kneale, I remember saying to him how, how did he, why, why had he come[…]
[…]Billy Hartnell, do you cut to Alfie Bass? You know, they were geniuses, brilliant. The outcome was, that Sydney and his brother, Bernstein, who owned Granada asked what had gone wrong and heard about Mario, said “Sack him. He can’t do any more.” Well Alfie Bass, and myself, and I have to say the res[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]7:15 Lancashire so on He did indeed in a realRichard Marden 27:16 Redcisle? didn't work. I mean, I think it would went on the Granada Harrow they took it off after two days. It was a pretty ghastly film, actually. But was the music. He was the janitor of an Edward[…]
[…]You did - I mean, there was, you did, you got 10 pounds a week. And the advantage was that you work with every single company there was I mean, we're Granada you work with the BBC, you work with ATV you worked with ABC you worked, you know, so you were going around all over the place. And whilst the[…]
[…]giment, at eighteen, and coming out, he was a member of MI6. He was a brilliant, brilliant man. He was a producer with World in Action to Granada. And he was one of the tutors at the school at that time. He said “Come in, we are going to build this school up into something [U[…]
