PRISCILLA JOHN

Priscilla John initially joined Granada in 1972, moving to its Manchester base in 1975 to be a booking assistant within the Casting Department.

She went on to cast for a range of programmes including Crown Court, Coronation Street, Wood and Walters and The Jewel in the Crown.

She left Granada to cast the film A Passage to India and continued to work as a freelance and now runs her own casting company.

Interview highlights

Priscilla John on what made Granada so distinctive

Priscilla John on casting for Jewel in the Crown

Priscilla John remembers the 1979 ITV strike

Priscilla John on why she thought Granada was a left-wing company

Priscilla John on the responsibility for casting Crown Court

Priscilla John describes casting for the docu-drama Three Days in Szczecin on the Polish shipyard workers’ strike in 1971

Priscilla John on casting Wood and Walters

Priscilla John describes casting for All for Love with Frank Finlay

Priscilla John describes the training needed to work in Casting

Priscilla John describes how she introduced new actors to Coronation Street

Priscilla John on how to talent spot

Priscilla John on the Manchester casting department that she joined in 1975

Priscilla John describes how she joined Granada