The director of Bafta-winning The Road to Coronation Street on how he got to know the soap’s creator – and how he reacted to the drama approximately his life
Like most Granada drama directors,Coronation Street was my first drama directing job. I was 26 at the time and a snob. Contemptuous of lower-level TV drama, I had hidden in documentaries for two years making World in Action films but finally had to pass through the factory gates of Coronation Street before anything else was allowed. Walking into that rehearsal room for the first time in 1978 was perhaps the most terrifying experience of my directing life but I immediately fell in love with it, and both because of the incredible cast,Pat Phoenix, Violet Carson and Doris Speed were all still there, or because of the sharp-edged,comedian writing that had been there since the beginning.
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Source: theguardian.com