In this episode, MUP's Senior Commissioning Editor, Matthew Frost, speaks to journalist Andy Spinoza, author of Manchester unspun: Pop, property and power in the original modern city. Follow Matthew and Andy as they take in the sights of Manchester, the twenty-first-century metropolis, and discuss everything from the property boom to the legacy of the Hacienda.

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In this episode, Professor of Global and Imperial History at Queen Mary University of London, Kim Wagner, speaks to historian Daniel Foliard, author of The violence of colonial photography. They discuss the inescapability of photographs of war and violence in modern media, and how a photograph at the right time still has the capacity to shock and to move us.

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In this episode, MUP's Trade Publisher, Kim Walker, speaks to researcher Tom Haines-Doran, author of Derailed: How to fix Britain's broken railways. They discuss Tom's lived experience of the nightmare that is Britain's rail network and, as a transport academic, how he’s turned his detailed knowledge of what’s gone wrong on the rails into a book - with some help from his fellow travellers.

This is an episode of ‘One Book at a Time,’ the Manchester University Press podcast. Time to slow down, consider the issues, learn the histories, exercise your brain in the open air of considered arguments and frontline thinking - and help us change the world one book at a time.

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In this episode, the director of Goldsmiths' Centre for Queer History, Justin Bengry, speaks to Matt Cook and Alison Oram, co-authors of Queer beyond London, which highlights the vibrance and particularity of LGBTQ+ histories and experiences across England. They discuss how people, places and politics have shaped LGBTQ+ life in Brighton, Plymouth, Leeds and Manchester.

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In this episode, University of Manchester academic Jenna Ashton speaks to Celeste Hicks, former journalist and the author of Expansion rebellion: Using the law to fight a runway and save the planet, and they ask: how can a government stay within its own climate targets while welcoming a further 700 planes a day into its airspace?

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In this episode, MUP's Trade Publisher, Kim Walker, speaks to Director of Research at Common Wealth, Adrienne Buller, the author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism, and they ponder a question which listeners may never have thought about before: How much would you pay for a whale?

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