John Finch
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NEW YORK TIMES on A FAMILY AT WAR ” A lesson in quality for the US…..intelligent, informative and thoroughly engrossing.”
GRANADA TELEVISION
“We all owe you a hugh debt. Apart from your magnificent pioneering of a new television form; apart from your Herculean single -handed feat of creating two hugh social panoramas, apart from the creation of a hugh gallery of characters, you have also magnificently proved that television doesn’t have to be rubbish”.
STAN BARSTOW on SAM
“It brings great dignity to the medium and spurs us all on to do better”.
SIR DENIS FORMAN
“A Family at War was the most cost effective television series ever made
DAVID LIDDIMENT, former head of ITV, The Guardian
On the subect of Granada drama; “In the 60′s a generation of locally based writers like John Finch, Jack Rosenthal and Harry Kershaw created a template for modern drama that still works today”.
SIR DENIS FORMAN, former chairman and managing director of Granada. Dedicating his book Persona Granada, Andre Deutsch 1998;
“To John – one of the founders of Granada’s great tradition in television drama”.
