Well then it got quite interesting because I went onto So It Goes which was a music programme with Tony Wilson and it was very, very demanding. It was very high tech, the first series. I don’t know what happened with the second series but I remember we had something like, I don’t know, two…
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June Buchan talks about Granada as a company
Can we talk about Granada as a company. I mean what kind of company do you have it, how do you see it as a company… Then I saw it as a family firm. I thought they looked after their staff incredibly well, the Bernsteins were still there. It did feel like one great big…
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June Buchan talks about the importance of the Granada canteen
The Canteen was a kind of a melting pot of ideas and conversations, and in those days you could smoke in the canteen. I remember they had these horrible tinny little ashtrays, they were sort of, what’s the word, shiny orange, turquoise or green and I think they had the same ones in the Granada…
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June Buchan on trade unions at Granada TV
What about the unions, trade unions and various problems? Yes I do remember quite a bit about that. I was a member I can’t remember whether we had to be members or not? Did we – right? I remember a lot of union meetings in a big room up on the 2nd floor I think.…
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June Buchan on Granada’s links with the region
What about Granada’s position within Manchester? How important was it to the region? Oh I think hugely important, I really do. Granada Reports, very important programme. I think people identified with it, I think people identified with people like Bob Greaves and Tony, Trevor Hyett and who was that lovely man, erm, he had been…
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June Buchan talks about working on the programme ‘Coronation Street’
Tell me about your time on Coronation Street. I loved it, I absolutely loved it but I found it quite difficult because I got on quite well with local filming, documentary filming but drama was something else, particularly filming I found difficult because I never quite grasped ‘crossing the line’, I never quite understood what…
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