Jon Savage far right with Phil Griffin and Sue Woodward I actually joined Granada in April 1979. But I went for the researcher’s board in November ‘78 and my position was that I was living at home with my parents still, I’m an only child, I was completing a Law Society’s solicitor’s qualification course…

I just remember it… London was derelict, but only in parts. I just remember… what I liked about Manchester was the space. I always liked urban spaces, one of my problems with London, one of the reasons I left London, was because all the space was filled in. And one of the things that I…

  I seem to remember not minding the canteen. I mean, I’ve always been into practical food. I didn’t like the canteen. I just remember… I remember being in there once and we had a group called Dead or Alive in, Pete Burns, and he was not the total outrageous Pete Burns as we know,…

Somebody has described Granada as being ‘unashamedly left-wing’. Yes. I thought it was left-wing in conventional political terms. I perceived it as being very, very conservative in social terms. So would you like to… Yes, I would have to explain that. Obviously – and I’m very glad it was left wing because that was a…

I think Granada was going to go through a downscaling period pretty much after I left, which is December ‘82. So could you see the signs of the changes? Not yet, no. But I did very quickly afterwards, because I went to work at TV-AM, which was another television disaster. I just regard my time…