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Esther Dean

Interviewed by Judith Jones, 4 November 2015. Okay. Can you begin by telling me how you came to be employed at Granada, how you joined Granada? This is going to be quite a long story! I was always very stage-struck. I was brought up in Manchester. Even during the war I can remember going to…

Don Jones

Interviewed by Geoff Moore, 18 August 2015. So, Don, can I just start you off by asking, how did you join Granada? How did you come to join? In 1980 I was a sports reporter on the Lancashire Evening Post. I’d been there six years. I’d joined them as a junior reporter, straight from school…

David Highet

Interviewed by Judith Jones, 23 April 2015. So I wanted to start, David, by asking you how you came to be employed at Granada Television because that wasn’t your first job? No, it was 1979 and I was 38 and I was Assistant Editor of the Liverpool Echo which was at that time probably the…

David Boulton

Interviewed by Stephen Kelly and Judith Jones, 18 June 2015 David, let’s begin with looking at how you actually came to join Granada Television. I was working for Tribune and running a campaign for Nuclear Disarmaments Paper, Sanity, and I started writing a series of articles on Conscientious Objectors in the First World War –…

Bruce Anderson

Interview with Bruce Anderson on January 27, 2015. When you joined Granada, where did you come from? Right. From the age of 17 to the age of 21, I spent four years at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art, which is now part of Bournemouth University. I primarily went there I suppose, because I wanted…

Brian Park

Interviewed by Geoff Moore, 18 November 2015. OK. Let’s start the interview proper. So Brian, let’s start with how you came to join Granada. I was at Edinburgh University. I had started a life as a perpetual student; I had done two degrees and was starting a PhD, but then I thought maybe I should…

Barry Bowmer

Interviewed by Stephen Kelly, 10 September 2015. Let’s start Barry by how you came to join Granada, how old were you? Well, I had various jobs going at Localis(?) where I lived in the south. My father who was a tool-maker at the BMI could see that going downhill so he persuaded me not to…

David Liddiment

Interviewed by Geoff Moore, 13 August 2015. Tell us how you came to join Granada. I joined Granada as a promotions scriptwriter. Joe Rigby hired me, and the only reason I got the job was, having applied for it before, I decided to apply for it again because I didn’t get it the first time…

Wallen Matthie

Interviewed by Stephen Kelly, 14 February 2014. Let’s do this chronologically. When did you join Granada? I joined Granada in 1981. I was approached initially – I used to work for the BBC on a freelance basis – I did a bit of radio for them. And then the riots took place in the summer…

John Huntley

Interviewed by Stephen Kelly, 25 February 2016. What did you do before Granada and how did you come to join Granada? I’ve been thinking about that, Steve. I was at York University from ’69 to ’72. Also at York University was Jeremy Fox, who I met, and we used to do TV programmes. It was…

Ian Hunton

Interviewed by Stephen Kelly, 18 February 2014. Let’s start from when you joined Granada, Ian. Tell us about how you came to join Granada and when you joined. I did a degree in electrical engineering and electronics at Newcastle University. I was on a scholarship with a company called AEI (Associated Electrical Instruments) and I…

Janice Finch transcript

Interviewed by Stephen Kelly, 12 December 2013. Let’s talk a little bit about your career at Granada Television, the programmes you worked on and when you joined. So initially I did a six-month stint on Exchange Flags which, as you know, was a live lunchtime programme done in Liverpool. After that I was asked to…