Directors: Sidney L. Bernstein, LL.D. (Chairman); Cecil G. Bernstein (Jt. Managing Director); J. Denis Forman (Jt. Managing Director); Julian Amyes; W. R. Carr; J. Warton.
executive directors: Fred Bond (General Manager); Barrie Heads (Executive Producer); Peter Rennie (Sales Director).

Officers: Sir Gerald Barry (Education and the Arts); Alan Gilbert (Chief Accountant); M. J. Harwood (Secretary); R. H. Hammans (Director of Engineering).

Programme Committee: Sidney L. Bernstein, Cecil G. Bernstein, J. Denis Forman, Julian Amyes, Kenneth Brierley, Derek Granger, Barrie Heads, Philip Mackie, David Plowright.

Studios: the tv centre, manchester 3. DEAnsgate 7211. A £3,000,000 redevelopment scheme, due to be completed in 1968, will make the Granada TV Centre in Manchester a highly modern and efficient television production unit. On a five-acre site, a landmark in the heart of Manchester’s new city-centre development, the TV Centre was the first building in Britain specifically designed for television when it first went on the air in May 1956. The new re-equipment project will give Granada three large drama studios and three current-affairs studios, new control suites, new telecine and videotape areas, new central apparatus room and central control room, and a custom-built switching system. The first colour studio will be in operation soon.

Overseas: Granada has interests in television stations in Canada and Northern Nigeria.

Programmes: news and news magazines: Scene, daily service of news and features for viewers in Granadaland. Link-up with remote control studio in London. current affairs: World in Action, weekly on-the-spot reports from across the world on news and current trends. This England, reports on life in Britain. What the Papers Say, Granada’s longest running weekly programme, first transmitted 5th November 1956, reviews how the newspapers have covered the week’s news. Cinema, films, the stars in them, and the producers and directors who have made them. Conferences, Granada first pioneered live all day coverage of the political conferences and TUC six years ago. The service continues. historical: Ten Days that Shook the World, first definitive television account of the Russian Revolution of 1917. News film of the time, on-the-spot reconstructions. A co-production by Granada in Manchester and Novosti in Moscow, shown simultaneously across the world on the 50th anniversary of the Revolution. Lusitania, dramatic reconstruction of the torpedoing by a U-boat of the liner Lusitania off the coast of Southern Ireland in 1915. The R101, the pride of Britain’s fleet of airships, crashed in flames near Paris on her maiden flight to India in 1930. The Thetis, the Royal Navy’s biggest, newest submarine, sailed out of the Mersey on her sea trials in June 1939. She dived … and never resurfaced. Ninety-nine lives were lost. All Our Yesterdays, each week looks back at how the newsreels of twenty-five years ago told the stories of their time. education: Discovery, science for sixth-formers, in its twenty-sixth term in January 1968. The Messengers, series on communication, encouraging 14-16-year-olds to look critically at films and television. Your Money, Your Life. Money – from the pay packet to the Bank of England – for school leavers. Picture Box, a film programme to stimulate primary schoolchildren to do constructive and creative things. The Land and the People, examining the effects of environment, topography, climate and discovery upon the growth of society. children: Zoo Time, now in its twelfth year, from Chester Zoo. Flower of Gloster. Four youngsters crew a narrow-boat along the inland waterways of Britain from North Wales to London; their adventures on the way. Film of the Book. How a classic book is turned into a famous film. ‘Great Expectations’, ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’, for example. plays and drama series: Inheritance. Dramatization in ten parts of the trilogy of novels by the Yorkshire writer Dr Phyllis Bentley. A story of life in a wool mill town from 1812 to 1965. Stories of D. H. Lawrence. Adaptations of D. H. Lawrence’s short stories: ‘Strike Pay’, ‘Mother and Daughter’, ‘Blue Moccasins’, ‘The Prussian Officer’, ‘Thorn in the Flesh’, and ‘None of That’. Escape. Six plays, all with the theme of physical escape, written by Marc Brandel. Coronation Street. Now in its eighth year, with Episode 740 transmitted in January 1968. The Fellows. Two Cambridge-based cerebral detectives comment on crime and punishment. Mr Rose. A retired policeman finds his past has a habit of catching up with him as he writes his memoirs. games: University Challenge and Sixth Form Challenge. Teams from Britain’s universities and schools race against the clock, and each other, to answer questions, both esoteric and general. light entertainment: Firstimers. Granada gives a first TV chance to up-and-coming Northern performers, in a five-nights-a-week contest to seek the stars of the future.

Art and Science: Granada endowments to universities in the North of England include a Chair of Drama at Manchester, a Television Research Fellowship at Leeds, and an Annual Arts Fellowship at York. Granada has established a peripatetic Lectureship in Popular Communication, and lectures are given annually at a number of Northern universities. In 1966 the lecturer was Mr Cecil King, Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation. In 1967, Mr William Rees-Mogg, Editor of The Times. Granada also makes grants to repertory theatres, art galleries and music and drama festivals in the North. The Granada Lectures on Communication in the Modern World, with international authorities lecturing in London’s Guildhall, are now in their tenth year. The 1967 lectures were: Professor Asa Briggs, ‘University Challenge: The University in a Changing Society’; Professor Fred Friendly, ‘Circumstances Within Britain’s Control. The Coming Discovery of Television’; and Mr Hugh Cudlipp, ‘Survival of the Fittest – The Mass Communications Jungle’.

Directors: Sidney L. Bernstein, LL.D. (Chairman); Cecil G. Bernstein (Jt. Managing Director); J. Denis Forman (Jt. Managing Director); Victor A. Peers, C.B.E.; Joseph Warton; Julian Amyes.

Officers: Peter M. Rennie (Sales Director); Sir Gerald Barry (Education and the Arts); Fred Bond (General Manager, Manchester); W. Dickson (Chief Accountant); R. H. Hammans (Director of Engineering).

Programme Committee: The Directors and Kenneth Brierley, Derek Granger, Barrie Heads, Tim Hewat, Philip Mackie, David Plowright.

Studios: the tv centre, manchester 3. Deansgate 7211. Granada’s five-acre TV Centre is a feature of Manchester’s new city development. It stands on the projected Liverpool-Leeds city-centre ring road, near the new Crown Courts and government offices. When the TV Centre went on the air in May 1956, it was the first building in Britain designed specifically for television. A major £2,000,000 technical redevelopment scheme is under way. The entire Centre is being redesigned and re-equipped to make it the most modern and most efficient television production plant. It will give Granada three drama studios and three current-affairs studios, eight new control suites, telecine and videotape areas, new central apparatus room and central control room, and a custom-built switching system. Granada also has remote-control studios in Leeds and London, worked from the Manchester TV Centre. A new 18,000 sq. ft scenery construction block will be finished in 1967.

Overseas: Granada has interests in television stations in Canada and Nigeria.

Programme Journal: TV Times publishes a separate edition for the North of England giving details of the available programmes.

Programmes: news and news magazines: Scene, daily service of news and news features for viewers in Granadaland. Link-up with remote-control studios in Leeds and London. Granada in the North, an information service of international, national and regional news from a duty producer-performer working from a ‘hot’ studio in the TV Centre. current affairs: The World Tomorrow, weekly report on how the trends of today will affect life tomorrow. This England, individual reports on film or videotape on aspects of life in Britain today. State of the Nation, progress reports on Britain’s economy, at regular intervals. What the Papers Say, Granada’s longest-running weekly programme, reviews how the newspapers have covered the week’s news. All Our Yesterdays, how the newsreels of twenty-five years ago told the story of their times. Cinema, films, the stars in them and the men behind their making. Coverage of the 1966 Trades Union Congress and Conservative Party Conference, at Blackpool. education: Discovery, science for sixthformers, in its twenty-third term in January 1967. Afternoon Edition – The Stormy Years: current affairs for 14-year-olds. The Land and the People, the story of Britain for secondary modern schools. Machines for a New Age, the story of the computer, for sixth-formers. Understanding, sex, marriage, family life and friendship for 15-16-year-olds. The Biggest Buy, a guide to young marrieds on house-buying. children: Zoo Time, now in its eleventh year. Junior Criss Cross Quiz. games: University Challenge; Criss Cross Quiz. plays and drama series: Four Plays of Married Life and three plays of action; new plays specially written for television. Dear Liar, dramatisation of the correspondence between Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell. The Man in Room 17, a weekly series about two singular detectives. You Can’t Win, seven plays based on two novels by William Cooper. The Corridor People, four-part thriller series by Eddie Boyd. Coronation Street, in its seventh year. light entertainment: Pardon the Expression and Turn Out the Lights, comedy series. The Music of Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles as composers. Big showbusiness names sang and played music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Art and Science: Granada has this year made an arrangement with the Amadeus Quartet whereby this world famous ensemble will take up residence in the University of York for a number of weeks in each academic year. In addition, Granada has endowed a Television Research Fellowship at Leeds University, a Chair of Drama at Manchester University, an Annual Arts Fellowship at the University of York, and a Fellowship in Fine Art at the Manchester College of Art and Design. Granada has also made grants to repertory theatres in the North, to the Manchester City and Walker Art Galleries, to the Leeds Musical Festival and to the Nuffield Foundation Centre for Educational Television Overseas. Granada has established a peripatetic Lectureship in Popular Communication. Lectures arc given annually in a number of Northern Universities. In 1966 the lecturer was Mr Cecil King, Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, on the Future of the Press.

Granada Guildhall Lectures: Each year Granada (with the British Association) arranges a series of three lectures on ‘Communication in the Modern World’ with international speakers lecturing in the Guildhall, London. The lectures are now in their ninth year.

Directors: Sidney L. Bernstein*, LL.D. (Chairman); Cecil G. Bernstein* (Jt. Managing Director), J. Denis Forman* (Jt. Managing Director), Victor A. Peers*; Joseph Warton*; Peter S. P. Brook C.B.E.
* Executive Directors

Officers: Alex Anson (Sales and Advertising); Sir Gerald Barry (Education and the Arts); Fred Bond (GeneraI Manager, Manchester); W. Dickson (Chief Accountant); R. H. Hammans (Director of Engineering).

Programme Committee: The Executive Directors and Julian Amyes, Kenneth Brierley, Derek Granger, Barrie Heads, Tim Hewat, Philip Mackie, David Plowright.

Art and Science: Granada has endowed a Television Research Fellowship at Leeds University, a Chair of Drama at Manchester University, a Chair of Communication at Keele University, an Annual Arts Fellowship at the University of York, and a Fellowship in Fine Art at the Manchester College of Art and Design. Granada has also made grants to repertory theatres in the North, to the Manchester City and Walker Art Galleries, to the Leeds Musical Festival and to the Nuffield Foundation Centre for Educational Television Overseas. Granada has established a peripatetic Lectureship in Popular Communication. Four lectures are given annually in Northern Universities. The first lecturer (1965) was Peter Brook, C.B.E.

The Granada Guildhall Lectures: Each year Granada, with the British Association the Advancement of Science, arranges a series of three lectures on the subject of ‘Communication in the Modern World’, with international speakers lecturing in Guildhall, London. Television versions of the lectures are transmitted. The lectures are now in their eighth year.

Overseas: Granada has interests in television stations in Canada and Nigeria.

Programme Journal: TV Times publishes a separate edition for the North of England giving details of the available programmes.

Studios: the tv centre, manchester 3. Deansgate 7211. Granada’s five-acre site is an important feature of Manchester’s city development, on the City Centre ring road, near the new Courts of Justice and government offices. In 1956, when Phase I of the TV Centre was completed, it was the first building in Britain originally designed for television. There are four studios, floor-space totalling 16,000 sq. ft, five rehearsal rooms, and facilities for building scenery.

Outside Broadcasts: Granada’s Travelling Eye outside broadcast vehicles include three mobile control rooms and two mobile Ampex videotape recording units.

Videotape Recordings: Granada has ten Ampex videotape machines at the TV Centre and in its mobile videotape recording vehicle.

Technical Developments: Interview studios have been built at Leeds and at Golden Square, London, to provide news and continuity suites for Granada in the North. These are remotely controlled from Manchester.

Programmes: news and news magazines: Granada in the North – a duty producer goes on the air throughout the day with an information service of news from ‘hot’ studios in Manchester and London. Scene at 6.30 – a daily service of news and topical features. current affairs, documentaries: The World Tonight. World in Action. What the Papers Say. AH Our Yesterdays. Daily coverage of political party conferences in 1965. Cinema. Inside – series on the British penal system. Deckie Learner – life on a deep-sea trawler. natural history: Another World. education: Afternoon Edition. Art in the Making. The Art of Music. Context (Art). Discovery (Science). The Groundwork of History. The Land and the People. Machines for a New Age (Computers). Management in Action. The Railway Age. children: Junior Criss Cross Quiz. The Headliners. A to Zoo. Zoo Time. plays and drama series: The Way of All Flesh, adapted from Samuel Butler’s novel by Giles Cooper. Galsworthy’s Strife. The Edwardians, four plays written and first staged at the beginning of the century. Coronation Street – 6th year. Friday Night – first plays by Northern writers. It’s Dark Outside – a weekly drama series. Blood and Thunder – ‘The Changeling’ and ‘Women Beware Women’, two Jacobean tragedies. Six Shades of Black – self-contained but linked series. The Man in Room 17 – cerebral security men in a weekly series. Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith and The American Dream. Lawrence – ten of D. H. Lawrence’s stories dramatized for television. entertainment: A Little Big Business. Pardon the Expression. Woody Allen. Play Bach, with Jacques Loussier. quizzes: University Challenge. Criss Cross Quiz. action stills: Camera in Action, a new technique which animates still photos and drawings – ‘The Uprooted’, ‘A Prospect of Whitby’, ‘The War of the Brothers’, ‘Photographers and Models’.

Directors: Sidney L. Bernstein*; Cecil G. Bernstein*; J. Denis Forman*; Victor A. Peers*; John S. E. Todd, C.B.E.; Joseph Warton*; Peter S. P. Brook.
* Executive Directors.

Officers: Alex Anson (Sales and Advertising); Sir Gerald Barry (Education and the Arts); R. H. Hammans (Director of Engineering).

Programme Committee: The Executive Directors and Tim Hewat, Philip Mackie, Julian Amyes, Derek Granger, Kenneth Brierley.

Art and Science: Granada has endowed a Television Research Fellowship at Leeds University, a Chair of Drama at Manchester University, a Chair of Communication at Keele University, an Annual Arts Fellowship at the University of York, and a Fellowship in Fine Art at the Manchester College of Art and Design. The Company has also made grants to repertory theatres in the North, to the Manchester City and Walker Art Galleries, to the Leeds Musical Festival and to the Nuffield Foundation Centre for Educational Television Overseas.

The Granada Guildhall Lectures: Each year Granada, with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, arranges a series of three lectures on the subject of ‘Communication in the Modern World’, with international speakers lecturing in Guildhall, London. Television versions of the lectures are transmitted.

Overseas: Granada has interests in television stations in Canada and Nigeria.

Programme Journal: TV Times publishes a separate edition for the North of England giving details of the available programmes.

Studios: the tv centre, manchester 3. Deansgate 7211. Granada’s five-acre site is an important feature of Manchester’s city development, on the City Centre ring road, near the new Courts of Justice and government offices. In 1956, when Phase I of the TV Centre was completed, it was the first building in Britain originally designed for television. There are four studios, floor-space totalling 8,000 sq. ft., four rehearsal rooms, and facilities for building sets.

Outside Broadcasts: Granada’s outside broadcast vehicles include three mobile control rooms and two mobile Ampex videotape recording units.

Videotape Recordings: Granada has ten Ampex videotape machines at the TV Centre, in its mobile videotape recording vehicle and at its London studios.

Technical Developments: An interview studio has been built at North House, Golden Square, to provide a news and continuity suite for Granada in the North.

Programmes: news and news magazines: Granada in the North — a new format. A duty producer goes on the air throughout the day with an information service of international, national and regional news from ‘hot’ studios in Manchester and London. Scene at 6.30 – a daily service of news and topical features. talks, discussions, current affairs: World in Action; What the Papers Say; All our Yesterdays. Four ‘specials’ by Denis Mitchell and Norman Swallow. The Beatles in New York. October 1964 General Election: Marathon. Daily coverage of Political Party Conferences, in 1962 (at Llandudno) and in 1963 (at Scarborough and at Blackpool). The TUC Conference, 1962 (Blackpool); 1963 (Brighton); 1964 (Blackpool). Cinema. Men of Our Time — two series about famous names in history: Hitler, Gandhi, Baldwin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, MacDonald, Lenin, George V. Inside — series about life in prison and public punishment. natural history: Animal Story; A to Zoo; Breakthrough; People Like Us; Zoo Time (eight years old). schools and children: Discovery; The Art of Music; Afternoon Edition; Railway Age; Automobile Age; Context; Groundwork of History; Man to Man; Spot This – hobbies programme; Junior Criss Cross Quiz. plays and drama series: The Other Man – a 2½-hour epic play based on the idea that Churchill died during the war and Britain was occupied by the Nazis. It’s a Woman’s World – four plays on a theme. Paris 1900 – six plays adapted from the farces of France’s great dramatist, Georges Feydeau. The Villains – series of Northern drama stories. Coronation Street – 5th year. Choice of Coward – four plays: Blithe Spirit, Design for Living, The Vortex, Present Laughter. War and Peace – a three-hour play adapted from Tolstoy’s epic. Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie, Rose Tattoo, Camino Real. Friday Night – first plays by Northern writers. Maupassant – a series of thirteen programmes presenting thirty-four of his short stories. The Victorians – a series of eight plays adapted from great stage successes between 1832 and 1888. Victoria Regina — four plays by Laurence Housman. Triangle – series of plays by a ‘triangle’ of writers, Robin Chapman, Hugh Leonard and Michael Hastings. Mr. Pickwick – a Christmas play adapted from Dicken’s [sic] novel. It’s Dark Outside – a weekly drama series. Blood and Thunder – The Changeling and Women Beware Women, two Jacobean tragedies. entertainment: A Little Big Business; Foreign Affairs; It’s Little Richard; The Blues and Gospel Train; A Whole Lotta Shakin Goin’ On – Jerry Lee Lewis; Go Tell it on the Mountain – Peter, Paul and Mary; Sarah Sings and Basie Swings – Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie; Ella Fitzgerald sings; Sentimental Over You – Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra Jnr.; I Hear The Blues – a negro blues festival including Victoria Spivey, Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, Matt Guitar Murphy and Big Joe Williams; Play Bach, with Jacques Loussier. quizzes: University Challenge; Criss Cross Quiz.

Directors: Sidney L. Bernstein*; Cecil G. Bernstein*; Denis Forman*; Victor Peers*; John Todd; Joseph Warton*; Peter Brook.
* Executive Directors.

Officers: Alex Anson (Sales and Advertising); Sir Gerald Barry (Education and the Arts); Patrick Crookshank (Overseas Sales); R. H. Hammans (Director of Engineering); William Nugent (Chief Engineer).

Programme Committee: The Executive Directors and Tim Hewat, Philip Mackie, Julian Amyes, Derek Granger. Secretary: Kenneth Brierley.

Art and Science: Granada has endowed a Television Research Fellowship at Leeds University, a Chair of Drama at Manchester University, a Chair of Communication at Keele University, an Annual Arts Fellowship at the University of York, and a Fellowship in Fine Art at the Manchester College of Art and Design. The Company has also made grants to repertory theatres in the North and to the drama schools in London.

The Granada Guildhall Lectures: Each year Granada, with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, arranges a series of three lectures on the subject of Communication in the Modern World, with international speakers lecturing in London’s Guildhall. Television versions of the lectures are transmitted.

Research: Granada has commissioned special audience research surveys – Granada Viewership Surveys (three editions) and What Children Watch.

Overseas: Granada has interests in television stations in Canada and Nigeria.

Programme Journal: TV Times publishes a separate edition for the North of England giving details of the available programmes.

Studios: the tv centre, manchester 3. Deansgate 7211. Granada’s five-acre site is an important feature of Manchester’s city development, on the City Centre ring road, near the new Courts of Justice and Government offices. In 1956, when Phase I of the TV Centre was completed, it was the first building in Britain originally designed for television. Today Phase V of the TV Centre development plan has been finished. There are six studios, floor-space totalling 23,860 sq. ft. Granada also has an audience studio at Chelsea, London.

Outside Broadcasts: Granada has 16 outside broadcast vehicles, including mobile Ampex videotape recording units.

Videotape Recordings: Granada has ten Ampex videotape machines at the TV Centre, in its mobile videotape recording vehicle and at its London studios.

Technical Developments: Granada was the first to use a standards conversion unit to ‘translate’ videotape recordings from European to United States line standards. In 1958 the Granada unit converted Eurovision pictures of the Coronation of Pope John to the American System, so that videotape recordings could be flown to New York for immediate transmission. Granada uses mobile videotape equipment for covering news events and recording inserts for programmes. All television facilities at the Manchester TV Centre have been planned, designed and commissioned solely by Granada Planning Engineers. The recently-completed Studio 12 is one of the most up-to-date television studios in the country. The vision mixer system, designed for the most complex operations, is controlled by one third of the buttons and switches normally needed. Half the vision is transistorized and incorporates equipment designed by Granada Design and Development. Granada studios have developed a unique system of lighting grids.

Programmes: Granada programmes include: News and News Magazines: Northern Newscast; Scene at 6.30, a daily news magazine; Late Scene. Talks, Discussions, Current Affairs: What the Papers Say; I Believe…; Appointment With…; election and political party conference coverage; World in Action, special reports from Granada units covering South Africa, India, Cuba, France and Britain; A Camera Goes to War; Unmarried Mothers; Tomorrow Couldn’t be Worse; The Troubles; All Our Yesterdays; The Loved Ones. Natural History: Breakthrough; Animal Parade; Another World; A to Zoo. Schools (for sixth forms, etc.): Discovery, Inquiry, Design; The Art of Music; Art in the Making; Patterns of Power; Word and Image; Afternoon Edition; The Railway Age. Plays and Drama Series: regular contributions to the Play of the Week and Television Playhouse series, including works of Jean Anouilh, Elizabeth Baker, Alexander Baron, Harold Brighouse, Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Clive Exton, Lillian Hellman, Stanley Houghton, Donald Howarth, Carson McCullers, Arthur Miller, Allan Monkhouse, Peter Nichols, J. B. Priestley, William Saroyan, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder; Tolstoy’s War and Peace; de Maupassant dramatized short story series; The Victorians, plays by Victorian writers; Friday Night, new plays by new Northern writers; The Verdict is Yours; Coronation Street; For King and Country, a series of plays about the 1914-18 War; The Odd Man. Light Entertainment: West End; Bootsie and Snudge; Music: Recitals by Oistrakh, Rostropovich, the Borodin String Quartet; Duke Ellington and His Orchestra; Sarah Sings and Basie Swings.

Directors: Sidney L. Bernstein*; Cecil G. Bernstein*; Denis Forman*; Maurice King; Victor Peers*; John Todd; Joseph Warton*; Richard Willder.
* Executive Directors.

Officers: Alex Anson (Sales and Advertising); Sir Gerald Barry (Schools and Education); Patrick Crookshank (Overseas Sales); R. H. Hammans (Director of Engineering); William Nugent (Chief Engineer).

Programme Committee: The Executive Directors and Harry Elton, Tim Hewat, Philip Mackie. Secretary: Kenneth Brierley.

Art and Science: Granada has endowed a Television Research Fellowship at Leeds University, a Chair of Drama at Manchester University, a Chair of Communication at Keele University, and an Annual Arts Fellowship at the University of York. The Company has also made grants to repertory theatres in the North.

The Granada Guildhall Lectures: Each year Granada, with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, arranges a series of three lectures on the subject of Communication in the Modern World, with international speakers lecturing in London’s Guildhall. Television versions of the lectures are transmitted.

Research: Granada has commissioned special audience research surveys — Granada Viewership Surveys (three editions) and What Children Watch.

Overseas: Granada has interests in television stations in Canada and Nigeria.

Programme Journal: TV Times publishes a separate edition for the North of England giving details of the available programmes.

Studios: the tv centre, manchester 3. Deansgate 7211. Granada’s five-acre site is an important feature of Manchester’s city development, on the City Centre ring road, near the new Courts of Justice and Government offices. In 1956, when Phase I of the TV Centre was completed, it was the first building in Britain originally designed for television. Today Phase V of the TV Centre development plan has been finished. There are six studios, floor-space totalling 23,860 sq. ft. Granada also has an audience studio at Chelsea, London.

Outside Broadcasts: Granada has 16 outside broadcast vehicles, including mobile Ampex videotape recording units.

Videotape Recordings: Granada has ten Ampex videotape machines at the TV Centre, in its mobile videotape recording vehicle and at its London studios. The TV Centre has a 16-mm. Dubbing Suite for putting sound on film.

Technical Developments: Granada was the first to use a standards conversion unit to “translate” videotape recordings from European to United States line standards. In 1958 the Granada unit converted Eurovision pictures of the Coronation of Pope John to the American System, so that videotape recordings could be flown to New York for immediate transmission. Granada uses mobile videotape equipment for covering news events and recording inserts for programmes. All television facilities at the Manchester TV Centre have been planned, designed and commissioned solely by Granada Planning Engineers. The recently-completed Studio 12 is one of the most up-to-date television studios in the country. The vision mixer system, designed for the most complex operations, is controlled by one third of the buttons and switches normally needed. Half the vision is transistorised and incorporates equipment designed by Granada Design and Development. Granada studios have developed a unique system of lighting grids.

Programmes: Granada programmes include: News and News Magazines: Northern Newscast, Scene at 6.30, a daily news magazine. Talks, Discussions, Current Affairs: What the Papers Say, I Believe…, Appointment With… , election and political party conference coverage, World in Action — special reports from Granada units overseas. Past programmes have covered South Africa, India, Cuba, France and Britain. Natural History: Breakthrough, Animal Parade, Another World, A to Zoo. Schools (for sixth-formers): Discovery, Inquiry, Design, The Art of Music, Art in the Making, Patterns of Power, Word and Image. Plays and Drama Series: regular contributions to the Play of the Week and Television Playhouse series, including works of Jean Anouilh, Elizabeth Baker, Alexander Baron, Harold Brighouse, Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Clive Exton, Lillian Hellman, Stanley Houghton, Donald Howarth, Carson McCullers, Arthur Miller, Allan Monkhouse, Peter Nichols, J. B. Priestley, William Saroyan, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder; Younger Generation series, 11 plays by new writers, performed by a repertory group of actors; the Saki series, dramatised short stories by H. H. Munro; de Maupassant dramatised short story series; The Victorians, plays by Victorian writers; The Verdict is Yours; Coronation Street. Light Entertainment: West End, Chelsea at Nine, Bootsie and Snudge. Music: Rosalyn Tureck playing the Bach preludes and fugues; recitals by Oistrakh, Rostropovich, the Borodin String Quartet; concerts by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Orpheus in the Underworld, by Sadler’s Wells Opera Company; Cinderella by the Royal Ballet Company; Josh White Sings.