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Granada Television : the first generation / edited by John Finch ; in association with Michael Cox and Marjorie Giles.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.92.G73 G736 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Granada Television--History.
- Granada Television.
- Granada Television--Anecdotes.
- Television stations--Great Britain--History.
- Television stations.
- Television stations--Great Britain--Anecdotes.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.
- Summary:
- Granada Television The first generation is a rich and readable collection of memoirs, some short, some extensive, of those who worked at Granada during the first thirty years of its existence. It captures a climate of creative activity unique in the history of broadcasting, referred to now as the golden years of British television.
- Lords Birt and Macdonald, Sir Denis Forman, Michael Parkinson, Michael Apted, Stan Barstow, Nick Elliott, Victoria Wood, Kenith Trodd, Jack Rosenthal, Anna Ford, Chris Kelly and Alan Plater are just a few of the many well-known contributors who were responsible for creating the foundations on which Granada's considerable worldwide reputation was based.
- Programmes such as World in Action, Brideshead Revisited, A Family at War, Coronation Street, What the Papers Say and many more described in this book, were pioneers in their respective fields.
- With a fine contextualising introduction, the book is a vital resource for all those interested in the intensive early development of the medium, and how this relates to television as it is today.
- Contents:
- Preface: Granada 1957-92 / David Plowright cbe ix
- Introduction: the development of commercial TV in Britain / Julia Hallam 1
- Captains of industry 25
- Lord Birt of Liverpool
- Nick Elliott
- Sir Denis Forman
- Granada and the north 35
- Colin Clark
- Marjorie Giles
- Geoff Lancashire
- Andy Mayer
- Michael Parkinson
- Jack Rosenthal cbe
- Jim Walker
- Claude Whatham
- The Granada experience 57
- Graeme McDonald obe
- Christopher Morahan
- Jeremy Paul
- Brian Trueman
- Herbert Wise
- Production trainees 75
- Michael Apted
- Gordon McDougall
- Drama 87
- Jim Allen
- Stan Barstow
- Derek Bennett
- James Brabazon
- Robin Chapman
- Michael Cox
- Harry Elton
- Richard Everitt
- John Finch
- Arthur Hopcraft
- Walter Mariner
- Alan Plater
- Philip Purser
- John Stevenson
- Kenith Trodd
- Peter Wildeblood
- Victoria Wood obe
- The illustrations 137
- Remembered 159
- Peter Eckersley by Jack Rosenthal cbe
- Gerry Hagan by John Stretch
- Harry Kershaw by Jack Rosenthal cbe
- Philip Mackie by Derek Bennett
- Comedy and music 167
- Brian Armstrong
- Johnnie Hamp
- Chris Kelly
- Barry Took
- Leslie Woodhead obe
- Factual programmes 183
- Brian Blake
- David Boulton
- Richard Creasey
- Barrie Heads
- Tim Hewat
- Vanya Kewley
- Kurt Lewenhak
- Lord Macdonald cbe
- Claudia Milne
- Patricia Owtram
- Arthur Taylor
- Spirit of Granada 217
- Lesley Beames
- Anna Ford
- Norman Frisby
- Bill Gilmour
- Eric Harrison
- Steve Hawes
- Peter Mullings mbe
- Paddy Owen
- Denis Parkin
- David Robinson
- Roy Shipperbottom
- Mark Shivas
- Jack Smith
- Liz Sutherland
- Ann Suudi
- Carole Townsend
- Short ends 265
- Phil Birnbaum
- Diana Bramwell
- Brian Cosgrave
- Lois Richardson
- Roy Stonehouse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719065143
- 0719065151
- OCLC:
- 51965565
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