Granville (Open All Hours) to mock his late uncle's stutter as a joke. Granville (Open All Hours) Granville is a fictional character played by David Jason in the British sitcom "Open All Hours" and its sequel, "Still Open All Hours". Granville is an errand boy to his uncle and employer, Arkwright, who is the proprietor of an old-fashioned Yorkshire corner shop. Granville was born to Arkwright's sister, who died while Granville was a young child, leaving Arkwright as his sole guardian. Granville's father's identity is not known, as his mother is implied to be a woman of loose morals, and Arkwright considers him to
Harley Granville-Barker well with the Edwardian audience. They found his plays to be incomprehensible. According to "The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance", his style was more similar to the styles of Chekhov by putting the "action under the surface". Although his audience may not have understood him, this did not stop Granville-Barker from discussing important issues in society. In 1907 Granville-Barker's play "Waste" was banned due to the topic of abortion and its politics. In 1909, three volumes of his plays, "The Voysey Inheritance", "Waste", and "The Marrying of Ann Leete", were published in a limited edition of 50 copies printed