ARTS & DRAMA
17 July 2006
Monday 17 July 2006 11:30-12:00 (Radio 4 FM)
When the late, great Jack Rosenthal finally wrote his memoirs, he did so in the form he understood best - the screenplay. This unique series was abridged and adapted by his daughter Amy Rosenthal from her father's original scripts and features his wife Maureen Lipman.
Jack's brief spell in the Navy, followed by his early career at Granada TV. Along the way it captures the excitement and buzz of the early days of independent television (where he met his future wife Maureen Lipman), and the first broadcast of Coronation Street, for which Jack wrote over 100 episodes.
With Rupert Degas, Zachary Fox, George Layton, Maureen Lipman, Toby Longworth, Stephen Mangan, Amy Rosenthal, Amy Shindler and Colin Shindler.
