The Sixties. I can’t remember when I left personnel — isn’t it terrible! But I went to Fred Boud, who was then general manager, and, after a very short and enjoyable time working for him, went to Denis Forman. That was 1968. At this stage, Denis Forman would be Programme Controller? He was Programme Controller…
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Kathy Arundale remembers how she came to work for Granada and the early days of the company
I joined in May 1957, which was just a year and a few days after the company had gone on the air, and I joined because I wanted to be in the press office, really. I was interested in journalism at that time. A friend of mine, who was working for the chief accountant, told…
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Kathy Arundale’s memories of Sidney Bernstein
Would you have come into much contact with Sidney Bernstein? I did in the early days, yes, because he came up to Manchester regularly to see how the building was progressing and everything else. He used to bring a secretary with him from London, but it was never enough, so they had to have somebody…
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Kathy Arundale’s memories of the production of ‘The Jewel in the Crown’
And were you with Sir Denis when The Jewel in the Crown came? I certainly was. He was very put out to discover that I’d read the novels before he had, because it was a massive piece of reading. And, unlike the way it was done on television, it’s all in timescales, going back and…
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Kathy Arundale talks about Granada’s highly regarded art collection
You looked after the art collection, didn’t you? When did Granada start purchasing paintings, and why? Well, Sidney Bernstein had always bought paintings, and the London offices had them forever. I don’t remember, in my early days at Granada in Manchester, that there were pictures on the walls, but there may well have been and…
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Kathy Arundale describes the work of the Granada Foundation
The Foundation is actually a separate entity to Granada Television, because Sidney and Cecil Bernstein settled an amount of money in what was then called the Northern Arts and Sciences Foundation. The interest from that capital was to be used to help arts and sciences in the north. I can’t remember when they changed the…
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