People and Places collects collectors
People and Places meets members of the public – and some Granada stars – with unusual collections
Month: November 2023
Chris Langford doesn’t seek stardom
Meet the young singing star of Granada's People and Places
People on the pier
People and Places goes out on the road
Take a doctor’s advice…
Next Friday the People and Places doctor is seen in Evening Surgery, Granada's new series dealing with common illnesses and their treatment. Here he tells what he hopes the programmes will achieve
Grundy by name…
Jean Grundy on her husband Bill
The sailing doctor makes it breezy
The nameless doctor from Granada's People and Places on sailing and being breezy about health matters
Chalk this page up to lightning Larry
Larry, the lightning cartoonist of Granada's People and Places, talks to Brian Finch about his weekly appearances in the programme and provides his own illustrations
Howland v Grundy – c’est la guerre
People and Places goes French
The cat’s whispers
Two of the chief writers of Granada's Bootsie and Snudge programmes on Fridays at 8.55 p.m. are Marty Feldman and Barry Took. The dark secrets of their joint authorship — well, their joint, anyway — are here revealed at last by CALTHROP MINGUS
Private Bone (alias Ted Lune) reveals: how I won t’cup for Bolton
The Army Game welcomes a new member of the troop
He’s Popeye the soldier man
Meet Bernard Bresslaw, one of the stars of Granada's The Army Game
Here’s why those ‘Army’ sets are so realistic
The designers behind Granada's hit situation comedy
If you want a quiet life, be a corporal
That's the view of Major (late Col.) Upshot-Bagley
The Army Game guide to good soldiering
You're in the army now… and it's not good!
Plain speaking
A speech by the chairman of Granada to the Manchester Reform Club in 1962
Miscellaneous
Various tele-snaps of variants and oddities
“Millstone”
Tele-snaps of Granada from the ‘millstone grit’ period of design
Granada in the North
Tele-snaps from Granada's innovative "In the North" period
“Clapperboard”
Tele-snaps of Granada from the 'clapperboard' period of design
All Our Yesterdays looks back on Bank Holiday 1937
Back in time 25 years to the Blackpool Pleasure Beach
A pilot remembers…
Twenty-five years ago this week Captain Arthur Wilcockson became the first man to pilot a flying-boat across the Atlantic — and pioneer of commercial aeroplane flights. Brian Inglis tells the story on Monday in All Our Yesterdays. Captain Wilcockson retired in 1959, but still retains his interest in flying as consultant to a major airline company
She’s ‘a real live girl’
Carol Burnett makes her first British TV appearance on Granada's The Variety Show
Tubby Stubby
Meet Stubby Kaye, guest star of Granada's The Variety Show
Fran Warren – singer with a sense of fun
Fran Warren sings on Granada's The Variety Show
Date with Dorothy
Dorothy Loudon telephones from New York to talk about Granada's The Variety Show
Rose Marie – on stage from childhood
Making her British debut on Granada's The Variety Show
The Stark truth!
Tea-break in the Granada studio. On the Air technicians are resting. Comedian Graham Stark sneaks back into the studio. "I've always wanted to work behind the scenes while there's nobody around," he says. And that is how On the Air was almost OFF the air…
Cats… Minnie Caldwell loves ’em all
Margot Bryant never saw a cat and didn't smile
It’s a (gay) dog’s life for Mr Robinson
Coronation Street star Patricia Phoenix on her pets
Shocks in the snug at the Rover’s Return
Miss Nugent and Miss Tatlock talk jazz
At last a model Ena – in wax!
Madame Tussaud's makes a model of Violet Carson
Doris Rogers is a versatile ‘mum’
Driving is a passion for Doris Rogers, guest star of this week's Family Solicitor episode
Praise from a peer
A member of the Law Society praises Granada's series Family Solicitor
When Mary played to an empty house…
An interview with Mary Kenton, who plays Ann Harvey in 'Family Solicitor'
SUT MAE Tommy Eyton Jones?
Meet the man behind the sport in Welsh and its famous catchphrase
Lucifer throws a light on TV electioneering
Inside the computer that can predict the outcome of the general election
Courage in the clouds
All Our Yesterdays looks back 25 years to a flight from Liverpool to New York
The tragedy that struck 1,000 ft down
All Our Yesterdays looks back 25 years to a mining disaster