Brian Trueman joined Granada Television in 1957 from the acting profession. He initially became a newsreader and then a presenter. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the best known faces of local programming, working on just about every Granada local programme from news to politics. During that time he recalls working with…
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Brian Trueman describes how he started work at Granada
I started at Granada in 1957 when I would be 25. I’d been, I won’t go into the tormented history of how I got there, but by a series of accidents I started acting in radio just before my fifteenth birthday. I’d acted through school life, and acted through university life and even on a…
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Brian Trueman recalls his early days as a newsreader
Very peculiar it was, wearing my makeup which was bright orange in order that I’d look normal with a vivid emerald green shirt which would look white because we were on, what did you call those cameras which were very slow? Very early black and white, very primitive camera. I read the news quite successfully…
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Brian Trueman talks about the importance of Granada TV to the region
How important do you think Granada was to the region? Hugely. Hugely. I mean it brought …. The BBC was already there, but the BBC somehow kept itself to itself and was obviously an adjunct of the metropolitan BBC, of BBC, the Corporation. I don’t think it interacted in quite the same way with the…
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Brian Trueman’s memories of Sidney Bernstein
Sidney was notorious for living on the premises! You know when they built the new block he had the Penthouse on the roof and begins … Sidney was known as “Fiddler on the Roof”! So he would patrol the building – in the evening – but he would patrol the building during the day with…
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Brian Trueman remembers meeting the Beatles and the Rolling Stones
The local programme, Granada Reports in the early days, was in a very small studio, Studio 4, which is now a store. Well last time I was in, it was a store room, electric cables, etc. We packed a lot into it. We would have the magazine programme and they would nightly, most nights I…
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Brian Trueman compares working at Granada with working for the BBC
People said what’s it like working for the BBC after working for Granada. I said working for Granada literally was like walking on broken glass; working for the BBC is like being smothered in cotton wool. It’s awful. Arm around the shoulders. “Wonderful to have you with us, Brian” all the rest of the stuff,…
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