Sunday Feature

MindMaps: 2/3. Manchester: Masters and Men

Sunday 7 October 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

A series examining the ferment of ideas generated in a single city.

Duration:

45 minutes

Playlist:

2/3. Manchester: Masters and Men

Chris Bowlby visits the Victorian cotton capital to discover how its buildings evoke the confident period when Manchester liberalism became the dominant ideology.

As the middle classes prospered, free trade and dissent achieved architectural, as well as social and political, status. Local luminaries, such as Halle, Mrs Gaskell and Engels, also decisively shaped the way later generations have thought about capitalism and how we consume culture today.

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Episode and Playlist Information

• 25 Nov 07 Poetic World of Newt
• 18 Nov 07 As Big as Life
• 4 Nov 07 Elgar and Empire
• 28 Oct 07 Mind as Machine
• 21 Oct 07 After slavery
• 14 Oct 07 Chicago
• 7 Oct 07 Manchester
• 30 Sep 07 MindMaps
• 23 Sep 07 The Eternal Rock
• 16 Sep 07 James Agee

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