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 […]

Betty Willingale

[…]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[…]

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[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]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[…]

Richard Marden

[…]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[…]

Alistair Murray Moffat

[…]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[…]
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