http://hearmanchester.com/ en ℗ & © 2008 Visit Manchester An audio portrait Visit Manchester Join John Robb and over thirty special guests, ranging from politicians to body-poppers, psychogeographers to popstars as they explore the Rochdale Canal and Petersfield areas of Manchester. Join John Robb and over thirty special guests, ranging from politicians to body-poppers, psychogeographers to popstars as they explore the Rochdale Canal and Petersfield areas of Manchester. Ten waymarkers placed by the canalside from Castlefield to Canal St, link to ten programmes specially created for your iPod or mobile, each exploring a different theme in the heritage of our city. Listen to your favorites as you travel, or discover the whole trail on the towpath. Vist Manchester guy@stardotstar.com hearmanchester.com Series introduction by John Robb John welcomes us to the towpath of Manchester's Rochdale Canal... http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/TITLE.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:12:00 GMT 00:36 manchester, canal, john robb, introduction hearmanchester.com Featuring Pauline Webb (MOSI) and Alistair Rawsthorne (Professor of Computer Science, Manchester University) "Just off the canal and up a few steps near the Castlefield Basin is the hugely impressive MOSI, the Museum of Science and Industry. The thing is that the city has an amazing scientific pedigree: Joule, Bohr, Rutherford, Geiger - they all changed the world, and it all happened here in Manchester. It's not something we shout about, and we should." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/INSPIRED.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:11:00 GMT 6:01 manchester, canal, john robb, mosi, science, physics hearmanchester.com Featuring environmental artist David Haley "The Rochdale Canal has obviously played a massive part in Manchester's industrial success story, but what's less obvious is that amongst the warehouses and factories, there is a whole swathe of wildlife if you know where to look..." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/GREEN.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:10:00 GMT 6:25 manchester, canal, john robb, art, ecology, green hearmanchester.com Featuring canal historian Brian Holden and Beverley Gallier of GMPTE "The reason the Rochdale Canal was built in the 1790's was pretty simple - to the get things from A to B. It was the first major transport system to make its way into the city centre and with the world's first passenger railway station over on Liverpool Road at the Museum of Science and Industry, and the first canal coming into Castlefield Basin, it soon it became a hub for one of the most sophisticated rail, road, and water networks anywhere in the world - combined with our international airport, an integrated transport system before the phrase was invented..." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/EN_ROUTE.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:09:00 GMT 5:10 manchester, canal, john robb, transport hearmanchester.com Featuring Keith Warrender, author of 'Underground Manchester' "I've left the Rochdale Canal, following this canal arm up past the fantastic Bridgewater Hall, in-front of Manchester Central formally known as the GMEX, and up on to Deansgate. Above me the majestic Beetham Tower glistens in the skyline, but its what's below which is really interesting: a subterranean world of tunnels under the feet of the busy workers and shoppers around me..." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/UNDERGROUND.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:08:00 GMT 8:43 manchester, canal, john robb, undergroung, tunnnels, urban exploration hearmanchester.com Featuring CP Lee (writer and broadcaster), Tosh Ryan (mogul, musician, legend), Garfield Allen (Artistic Director, greenroom), Benji Reid (hip hop tragedian and former world body popping champion), Eleanor Roberts (Bridgewater Hall archivist) "Manchester's musical heritage is as famous as any part of its history and culture. The Bee Gees, The Buzzcocks, The Fall, New Order, The Smiths, Simply Red, The Stone Roses Happy Mondays, Oasis any many many more, have all come from here and gone on to become world famous. But for every big name there has always been 20 smaller bands gigging away full of characters, untold stories and hope." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/UNSUNG.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:07:00 GMT 10:08 manchester, canal, john robb, music, madchester, greenroom, popping, tosh ryan, benji reid, bridgewater hall hearmanchester.com Featuring the Pankhurst Centre's Naomi Buckley and historian Jonathan Schofield "One of the coolest things Manchester is famous for is a real tradition of political and cultural radicalism, promoting everything from free trade to vegetarianism..." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/RADICAL.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:06:00 GMT 06:49 manchester, canal, john robb, radical, peterloo, suffragettes, politics, marx, pankhurst, naomi buckley hearmanchester.com Featuring psychogeographer Bob Dickinson, publisher Ra Page, and author David Constantine "The canal is fantastic place to come and sit or wander and there is a good chance you could come over all poetic as you take the sights in. We have a strong stable of literary high achievers from modern word-smiths like Morrissey, Shaun Ryder John Cooper Clarke and Lemn Sissay right the way back through to the Anthony Burgess and Thomas De Quincey author of one of my favourite books 'The Confessions of An English Opium Eater'." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/POETIC.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:05:00 GMT 8:00 manchester, canal, john robb, literature, poetry hearmanchester.com Featuring Featuring Urban Splash's Nick Johnson, Inspiral Carpets' Clint Boon, photographer Natalie Curtis and Ying Kwok from Manchester's Chinese Arts Centre "In this series we're covering all sorts from industry, poetry, science and the environment, I am just by Princess Street just behind the BBC and all around me are apartment blocks that have sprung up to cater for the new breed of urban dwellers, drawn in by the great shopping and nightlife on their doorsteps. From just about anywhere along the Rochdale Canal Britain's tallest residential building the mighty Beetham Tower, rises 168m into the sky. A little closer the ground, and a lot closer to the canal, property developers like 'Urban Splash' have transformed how we live in the city centre..." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/HUMAN.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:04:00 GMT 9:46 manchester, canal, john robb, urban, city, chinese, hearmanchester.com Featuring Cllr Paul Fairweather, Polly, Merry and the locals of Canal Street "Pride is a word, which is well used when it comes to Manchester, particularly so when it comes to this part of the city. This is Canal Street the heart of the gay village and symbol of Manchester's vitality and its rich and diverse population..." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/PROUD.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:03:00 GMT 6:43 manchester, canal, john robb, gay, lesbian, canal street, history hearmanchester.com Featuring historian Jonathan Schofield and entrepreneurs Jane Lawton and Anna Target. "The canal wouldn't exist at all and I wouldn't be stood beside it if it wasn't for Manchester's mighty industrial heritage. At the turn of the 19th Century this was the Britain's boom town thanks mostly to cotton..." http://hearmanchester.com/podcast/mp3/INDUSTRIAL.mp3 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:02:00 GMT 6:29 manchester, canal, john robb, industrial, history, heritage