The Manchester Weekly from The Mill

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If you live in Greater Manchester and you want to understand your world better, this is the podcast for you. Every week, we tackle a big story in the city region or interview a key figure who provides some new insight into the issues that are shaping this par of the world. It's all produced by the team at The Mill, whose award-winning journalism has won national acclaim and which specialises in in-depth reporting that digs a few levels deeper than regular news. To find out more about The Mill, visit manchestermill.co.uk.

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Episode Date
Manchester's homeless camp had good intentions. Was that enough?
Apr 22, 2024
Who is to blame for the Night & Day Cafe saga?
Mar 28, 2024
The mistreatment of Manchester's homeless community
Mar 21, 2024
The extraordinary stories of ordinary Mancunians
Mar 14, 2024
Exclusive: Bernie Sanders tells us about a "disaster for democracy"
Feb 21, 2024
Is Rochdale a cursed constituency?
Feb 15, 2024
Is Manchester a 'rentier city'?
Feb 08, 2024
Should Greater Manchester be partnering with Fujitsu?
Jan 22, 2024
Who is behind the Manchester Nightlife videos?
Jan 09, 2024
Our 2023 in review
Dec 21, 2023
Chanel comes to Manchester
Dec 09, 2023
'Cheap talk'? A former Downing Street advisor takes on critics of the 'Manchester model'
Nov 30, 2023
Where is Manchester supposed to put its students?
Nov 21, 2023
Inside Manchester’s secret network of women calling out their exes
Nov 14, 2023
Cut from different cloth: is Manchester where Chanel really belongs?
Oct 30, 2023
She escaped the Taliban, now she's homeless on the Curry Mile
Oct 19, 2023
Will our trains ever not be a joke?
Oct 10, 2023
Exclusive: The Arts Council is investigating finances at Wigan’s Old Courts
Oct 02, 2023
The powerlessness of Michaela Ali
Sep 22, 2023
Who's going to join Soho House Manchester?
Aug 23, 2023
'I never wanted to move from Ukraine. My friends wanted to, but I never did.'
Aug 08, 2023
Who is really benefiting from Manchester's rapid growth?
Jul 31, 2023
There are lots of rumours about Sacha Lord, but what's the truth?
Jul 24, 2023
Big parties and bigger drama: Life at uni during the lockdowns
Jun 29, 2023
How do Manchester developers avoid building affordable homes?
Jun 22, 2023
Manchester turns blue - but do City fans care about their club's finances?
Jun 15, 2023
Is Manchester’s transport infrastructure struggling to cope?
Jun 08, 2023
The secret flights Manchester Airport doesn't want to talk about
Jun 01, 2023
Underpayment, media hype and the forgotten workers of Manchester’s hospitality industry
May 25, 2023
"We don't do things differently here": An author challenges the myths of Manchester
May 22, 2023
Two cities, two votes: inside Eurovision and the local election returns
May 11, 2023
The 'red wall' speaks: what to expect from today's local elections
May 04, 2023
The Prisoner’s Prison: has a Salford jail been taken over by the inmates?
Apr 27, 2023
We went to the last night at one of Manchester’s iconic pubs
Apr 21, 2023
Riot at the Palace: Why are people binge drinking at the theatre?
Apr 13, 2023
Has Manchester lost its soul? A new book explores the city's boom
Apr 06, 2023
'Prejudices' and 'lazy assumptions' among housing staff in Rochdale
Mar 30, 2023
Is Greater Manchester's new deal with the government a 'historic step' or an 'inch in the right direction'?
Mar 23, 2023
How Jeremy Hunt made Andy Burnham more powerful
Mar 16, 2023
Another Tory MP in Greater Manchester stands down
Mar 09, 2023
Could the Manchester Arena bombing have been prevented?
Mar 02, 2023
What's behind the culture funding row in Oldham?
Feb 23, 2023
Live from Manchester Museum as it finally reopens its treasures
Feb 17, 2023
Why has Nicola Bulley's disappearance drawn in an army of online sleuths?
Feb 09, 2023
Is this the end for Oldham Coliseum?
Feb 02, 2023
Why are MPs and Radio 4 talking about The Mill?
Jan 26, 2023
Is there really a war going on in Ancoats?
Jan 19, 2023
Is Greater Manchester’s biggest housing strategy at risk?
Jan 12, 2023
A storm brewing in Chorlton and Didsbury
Jan 05, 2023
The stories that caused us the most stress and the ones we’d do differently
Dec 22, 2022
In a dramatic move, China removes its officials from Manchester
Dec 15, 2022
Is Gordon Brown onto something?
Dec 08, 2022
Disruption, Delays and Derailing: What is happening with Metrolink?
Dec 01, 2022
Andy Burnham wanted to end rough sleeping. Now it's getting worse.
Nov 24, 2022
Serious allegations about Manchester Confidential - how we published the story
Nov 17, 2022
Condescending and ignorant - how the London arts world has reacted to ENO moving north
Nov 10, 2022
What I learned from reading the Manchester Arena report
Nov 03, 2022
Is this the end of the Night and Day Cafe?
Oct 27, 2022
Chinese officials assault a protester on the grounds of the Manchester consulate
Oct 20, 2022
Chinese officials assault a protester on the grounds of the Manchester consulate
Oct 20, 2022
No friends or family came to his funeral - so I tried to find out who he was
Oct 16, 2022
Why aren't people in Manchester using Metrolink?
Oct 13, 2022
The Tories are in trouble - and so is Manchester's Metrolink
Oct 06, 2022
A bleak, dank, cold Northern village on the edge of the moors
Sep 30, 2022
Mayfield Park the first new park in 100 years
Sep 25, 2022
Manchester waits to visit the new city centre park
Sep 22, 2022
How we investigated the true causes of homelessness in Manchester
Sep 18, 2022
Is Andy Burnham's fare cap going to bring back passengers?
Sep 08, 2022
Renting the middle-class house in nineteenth-century Manchester
Aug 28, 2022
The next Prime Minister
Aug 25, 2022
'Misinformation', 'hate' and answering his critics" we speak to the CEO of Manchester Pride
Aug 21, 2022
A storm in the Northern Quarter
Aug 18, 2022
What would real levelling up look like? Meet the economist who might have the answers.
Aug 14, 2022
Exclusive: What happened during a surprise inspection at a local A&E
Aug 11, 2022
Do you remember Jack Hilton?
Aug 07, 2022
Has Manchester found its next industrial revolution?
Aug 04, 2022
"I prefer the hell hole that breeds great art"
Jul 31, 2022
Human remains and ‘speculative information’ at a burned down mill in Oldham
Jul 28, 2022
Why I started The Mill - and what we want to do next
Jul 24, 2022
Life inside a Manchester asylum seekers hotel
Jul 21, 2022
What violence does to young people in Moss Side
Jul 17, 2022
The MEN faces questions about its reporting of a controversial trial
Jul 14, 2022
'Low traffic neighbourhoods' seem like a good idea - so why are they causing so much strife?
Jul 10, 2022
Resignations and political drama in Westminster - and in Greater Manchester too
Jul 07, 2022
He walked into Britain's worst prison riot - and came out with a story about indignity and injustice
Jul 03, 2022
Insiders fear 'deaths and homicides' as mental health services leave hundreds waiting for care
Jun 30, 2022
We meet the new leader of Manchester, Bev Craig
Jun 26, 2022
Why did Raja Miah not pass his dossier to the Oldham sexual abuse review?
Jun 23, 2022
Is Manchester city centre dying, or just changing?
Jun 19, 2022
A perilous journey from Sudan to Manchester
Jun 16, 2022
Decolonisation, repatriation and transforming Manchester Museum
Jun 12, 2022
What does the Red Wall think of Boris Johnson - and can we trust the polls?
Jun 09, 2022
Is the Royal Exchange in Crisis?
Jun 05, 2022
A leading Manchester company collapses into administration
Jun 02, 2022
Have the police missed a Manchester serial killer?
May 29, 2022
A major IT failure hits Greater Manchester and the rest of the headlines
May 26, 2022
How a dark conspiracy theory poisoned a divided town
May 19, 2022
Greater Manchester tries to save an endangered bird
May 12, 2022
Local Elections 2022 - The Results
May 08, 2022
Searching for Salford's secret garden
May 05, 2022
The fall and fall of Oldham Athletic
Apr 28, 2022
The story of Rochdale's grooming gangs takes another turn
Apr 21, 2022
'In the suburbs of hell': a new history of the North
Apr 14, 2022
Anxiety and despair in Manchester as the cost of living crisis bites
Apr 07, 2022
They escaped from a bombed out city. Now they're settling in Manchester.
Mar 31, 2022
The extraordinary campaign to keep Rochdale AFC in the hands of fans
Mar 24, 2022
Can Andy Burnham fix Manchester’s buses?
Mar 17, 2022
Inside Ukraine's unfolding medical emergency
Mar 10, 2022
The extraordinary stories of Manchester’s Ukrainians
Mar 03, 2022
Did Andy Burnham misjudge the Clean Air Zone?
Feb 24, 2022
Manchester Pride was accused of losing its way. Can it recover?
Feb 17, 2022
Does Greater Manchester have a stabbing epidemic?
Feb 10, 2022
The murder of a local man becomes mired in corruption
Feb 03, 2022
A woman's search for the sister she never met
Jan 27, 2022
Hotel 'monstering' and the tactics of the new far-right
Jan 20, 2022
The sad life and contested death of Tiffany Stevens
Jan 13, 2022
The Last Game of The Poor Man
Jan 06, 2022
The Mill - A year in the life of Greater Manchester
Dec 23, 2021
The life and career of Sir Richard Leese
Dec 16, 2021
The rector and his very Mancunian tale
Dec 09, 2021
Manchester's Labour party erupts into civil war
Dec 02, 2021
The Manchester workers who spend their weekends sabotaging hunts
Nov 25, 2021
Her stall survived the IRA bomb and the pandemic
Nov 18, 2021
The far-right rises in Manchester's twin city
Nov 11, 2021
Inside the Northern Quarter's old school pubs
Nov 04, 2021
The return of Cottonopolis?
Oct 28, 2021
A new book chronicles the life of Tony Wilson
Oct 21, 2021
How a Manchester student became hooked on VR
Oct 14, 2021
The Manchester Weekly from The Mill
Oct 06, 2021