Reggie Yates looks back: ‘I went from a council estate to working with the people I watched on TV’
The actor and broadcaster on how his mum kept him grounded, an awkward encounter with Sting, and why making documentaries changed him
February 2024
Grange Hill actor Stuart Organ, who played Peter Robson, dies at 72
Actor best known for his role in the children’s TV drama also appeared in Brookside and Doctor Who
April 2023
Film reboot of Grange Hill to feature original cast members
Series creator Phil Redmond has teamed up with Sara Sugarman to make a big screen version of the hit BBC drama and they promise that TV favourites will return
February 2023
From Skins to Sex Education: seven of the best TV school dramas
Before the launch of the BBC’s Phoenix Rise, we revisit some of the top shows about high school teens
September 2022
Gwyneth Powell obituary
Gwyneth Powell, actor who played Grange Hill’s headteacher, dies aged 76
August 2022
The week in audio: The Reunion: Grange Hill; The Blues Show With Ronnie Wood; Black Roots and more
It’s back to the playground for Grange Hill creator Phil Redmond and its stars, while Ronnie Wood tells the one about Chuck Berry’s trousers
January 2022
Other lives
Nicholas Donnelly obituary
Other lives: Actor best known as Mr MacKenzie, the woodwork teacher in Grange Hill
The Guardian view on Grange Hill and The Wonder Years: old-school drama for new times
Editorial: The revival and reboot of two classic coming-of-age series can deliver more than just nostalgia
School closures, grieving students and social media slang: Phil Redmond on his plans for Grange Hill – the Movie
At 72, the Brookside creator is returning to his first and greatest creation. He thinks it could teach the government a thing or two
October 2021
Alan Hawkshaw obituary
Composer who wrote the theme tunes for Channel 4 News and Grange Hill, and the music to accompany the Countdown clock
Alan Hawkshaw, Countdown and Grange Hill composer, dies aged 84
Leeds-born musician and producer worked with artists such as Barbra Streisand and was sampled in numerous hip-hop tracks
Michelle Gayle: ‘They said don’t leave EastEnders – I never regretted it’
From Grange Hill to the West End, via Eurovision and the Brit awards, the star has built multiple careers. She talks about stage-school pressure, TV diversity and playing Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
September 2021
Teenage kicks
Garbage’s Shirley Manson: ‘Grange Hill was my best friend – it saved my life’
Ahead of a reissue of her band’s classic Beautiful Garbage, the Scottish frontwoman remembers her teenage passions, from the fiction that terrified her to the Edinburgh nightclub that set her free
May 2021
Tony Armatrading obituary
Stage and screen actor who enjoyed success with the RSC and in many TV and film roles, including Empire Road and Notting Hill
March 2021
‘Grange Hill was bigger than Love Island’: the rise of nostalgia TV
From The Sopranos to The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, archive content has never been more popular. What do our choices say about the nation’s psyche?
January 2021
Watched with mother
Jill Halfpenny: 'I used to wish there was a Geordie Grange Hill'
In the first of a new series about what TV stars watched as children, Jill Halfpenny remembers being cast in Byker Grove
October 2019
Anna Quayle obituary
Multitalented actor best remembered as Baroness Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
August 2019
YouTube archive
Phantom VAR aggro, track and field ruckus and Gripper Stebson
Also featuring Harry Maguire’s pace, Jaap Stam’s demeanour and Tubby Taylor takes a screamer
May 2019
What Zammo did next: Lee MacDonald on life after Grange Hill
He found fame playing a schoolboy heroin addict, started a second career as a boxer … then lost it all in a car crash. Now he’s heading back to our TV screens with a role in EastEnders
