“MANCHESTER HAS GOT EVERYTHING EXCEPT A BEACH”, IAN BROWN

Historian DR Dean Kirby AND friends will delve into some of the forgotten corners of this English city – discussing its mUSIC, CULTURE, drugs and scandals – but also the offbeat moments of humour and its unbelievable inhabitants.

OUR FIRST RUN OF EPISODES will span the growth of Mcr in all its quirky glory – from the city’s LOST PAGAN GODESS, to gangs OF SCUTTLERS who roamed Victorian slums, to Satan-worshipping wizards, banned publications, and the rise and fall of Britain’s most CONTROVERSIAL POLICEMAN.

Manchester is the city which split the atom, produced to the world’s first modern computer, and was the birthplace for political and sexual revolutions which spanned the globe. WE ARE FASCINATED BY the history of this english city – and its influential inhabitants from suffragette emmeline pankhurst to friedrich engels to alan turing to frank sidebottom.

every few weeks we’ll be dropping a new episode onto well-known podcast players. We hope that that you’ll find the issues, stories and insights as interesting as we do!