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.
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