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July 2024

  • Reggie Yates wearing a blue suit, a white shirt and a blue bow tie in 2024

    Flashback
    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

  • Stuart Organ

    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

  • Tim Polley as Steven Banks, Melissa Wilks as Jackie Wright and Lee MacDonald as Samuel 'Zammo' McGuire in series eight of Grange Hill.

    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

  • Skins, Grange Hill and Freaks and Geeks

    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 as Bridget McClusky in Grange Hill, with Brian Capron as Mr Hopwood, Mark Savage as ‘Gripper’ Stebson (back to camera) and  Peter Moran as ‘Pogo’ Patterson.

    Gwyneth Powell obituary

  • Gwyneth Powell

    Gwyneth Powell, actor who played Grange Hill’s headteacher, dies aged 76

August 2022

  • Grange Hill The Reunion for BBC. Erkan Mustafa Simone Nylander Todd Carty Lee MacDonald

    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

  • Nicholas Donnelly as the Scottish teacher Mr MacKenzie in Grange Hill

    Other lives
    Nicholas Donnelly obituary

    Other lives: Actor best known as Mr MacKenzie, the woodwork teacher in Grange Hill
  • A still from 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
  • ‘I used to be a child once’ … Phil Redmond has completed the script for a new Grange Hill film.

    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 death<br>Undated handout photo of composer Alan Hawkshaw who has died aged 84. In a statement, talent agency DNA Music Ltd said Hawkshaw died in the early hours of Saturday after being admitted to hospital with pneumonia earlier this week. Issue date: Sunday October 17, 2021. PA Photo. The Leeds-born musician composed the theme tunes of iconic TV shows Grange Hill and Countdown. See PA story DEATH Hawkshaw . Photo credit should read: DNA Music/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    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, who has died aged 84.

    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 in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

    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

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    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 as Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come And Gone by August Wilson at the Tricycle theatre, London, in 1990.

    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

  • Composite of old TV sets with images of old TV shows (clockwise from top left) The Sopranos; Only Fools And Horses; Fawlty Towers; Relocation, Relocation; Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    ‘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

  • Jill Halfpenny … ‘I was obsessed with Parkinson.’

    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 and Gert Fröbe in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968, her big-screen break.

    Anna Quayle obituary

    Multitalented actor best remembered as Baroness Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

August 2019

  • TOPSHOTS France’s Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (R) runs after removing his jersey in the last meters of the Men’s 3000m steeplechase final, ahead of France’s Yoann Kowal (L) during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich on August 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORINOLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images

    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

  • Lee MacDonald … ‘The 90s weren’t brilliant because I didn’t know where I was or what I wanted to do.’

    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
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