Stephen Kelly – Granadaland

Stephen Kelly biography

Stephen Kelly joined Granada Television as a Researcher in July 1978 after working as a political journalist with Tribune magazine. Over the next ten years most of his time was spent working on political programmes, the first of which was Granada’s weekly local politics show Reports Politics. That was a followed by a stint on…

Stephen Kelly recalls the special atmosphere at Granada’s first Liverpool studio at Exchange Flags

Exchange Flags was the first Granada Liverpool office and was opened in 1980. It was at the back of the Town Hall, in a rather distinguished building. I have very fond memories of working there. The first programme I worked on over there was Union World. This was a Channel Four programme which was transmitted…

Stephen Kelly talks about Granada as a company and the type of people it employed

How much a part of your life, you were there for ten years and you left 25 years ago, how big a part of your life has it been.? Oh, a major part. I had really enjoyable years there. It was a major part. Back in the early eighties when I was there Granada made…

Stephen Kelly talks about working on a World in Action programme about the Labour Party

This extract is part of a longer interview conducted with Stephen Kelly. I remember once working on World In Action and I got a telephone call at 12.30 at night and I am in bed. It was Friday night and I had an entire weekend organized. I get a phone call, “Be in London for…

Stephen Kelly recalls working on the Hypotheticals programme

So I worked on Reports Politics for about a year and then after that went onto a programme called Hypotheticals. Hypotheticals was a networked programme. Sixteen people sit around a horseshoe table with a moderator and each of these people play a hypothetical role and a story is presented to them. For instance you have…

Stephen Kelly remembers working on the Reports Politics programme

So, I worked on that for a few weeks and then I joined the local politics programme which was called Reports Politics. You see a similarity here using the work Reports because all the regional programmes had the word ‘Reports’ attached to them, well most of them. So Reports Politics was the Monday night half…