Ann Lewis – Granadaland

Ann Lewis on Granada as an employer

So what did you think Granada were like as a company towards its employees? How do you think it treated its employees? Well it could be very easily over-simplified and said they were very paternalistic and very ‘blah, blah’ but I don’t think that was the case in everybody’s experience. I think there was a…

Ann Lewis recalls her first impressions on joining Granada

So what was your impression of coming to work for Granada, not having worked in television before? It was very exciting, it was very exciting the prospect of working in the media. In fact, what I did was I sent applications off to all kinds of places where I thought if I’m going to be…

Ann Lewis recalls about the challenges she faced when she tried to change her role

So you were a secretary but you obviously had ambitions to be more than that. I wondered if you even applied for other jobs? I did, I did. In my efforts to get out of the secretarial role, I applied, there was a job came up as a studio camera operator. I think at that…

Ann Lewis describes one of the disputes she was involved in as a shop steward.

So as union rep what kind of issues would you have to deal with? Oh there were some really interesting ones. In fact, Granada, I don’t know about other companies, but Granada I think it was in about 1975 were looking at getting an in-house crèche and I thought that was really good and we…