Best Joshi Herrmann Podcasts (2024)

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The strange death of Levenshulme Market 16:34

2h ago16:34

16:34

Levenshulme Market was a local success story, cementing a narrative of a neighbourhood on the rise. For ten years, it ran weekly markets on a council-owned car park near the train station serving everything from craft beer to books, cocktails and gifts, and the market became celebrated for its role as an incubator for small businesses that managed …

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How did a semi in Harpurhey sell for £1.8m? 21:07

1h ago21:07

21:07

In this week's episode, Mollie and Joshi discuss the curious case of a semi-detached house in Harpurhey that was bought for £575,000 and sold for £1.8 million on the very same day. Manchester City Council cited the sale as an example of market manipulation, but the property company involved happens to be a major council partner. Mollie and Joshi ta…

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Do Manchester's theatres have a class problem? 37:38

23h ago37:38

37:38

Do Manchester's theatres have a class problem? Robert Pegg, a playwright and police station representative, seems to think so. In a remarkable long read for The Mill, he argues that working-class creatives have been confined to the fringe scene, with commissioning editors mainly looking towards their own narrow class to fill vacancies. So how do we…

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Britain doesn't have a second city 18:56

25d ago18:56

18:56

Has the question of whether Manchester or Birmingham is Britain's second city distracted us from another possibility: That Britain doesn't have a second city at all? David Rudlin, director of urban design at BDP, thinks so. A little-known law states that neither Birmingham nor Manchester are big enough to claim the title of Britain's second city, w…

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Clinging on in east Manchester 22:02

24d ago22:02

22:02

Writer Alec Herron's gran’s house was on the Grey Mare Lane estate in Beswick, east Manchester. He can still remember Sunday afternoons "filled with rice pudding, sucking bone marrow and hours sat around the table hearing stories of tragedy and petty gossip told with the same veracity". It will all be coming down soon. The regeneration of Grey Mare…

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General Election preview: Keir Starmer gets his candidates in Greater Manchester 12:43

2M ago12:43

12:43

It’s been a frantic few days of political shenanigans as Sir Keir Starmer’s ruthless operation in London moves to impose its favoured people on the safe seats that are up for grabs in Greater Manchester, the Lib Dems attempt to remove any Tory blue from the Greater Manchester map and the Tories fight to hold on in Bolton. So who are the people vyin…

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Sacha Lord has withdrawn his legal threat against The Mill 30:26

2M ago30:26

30:26

Last Thursday, The Mill revealed that Primary Security, a company controlled by Sacha Lord, had obtained more than £400,000 of public money from an Arts Council scheme that was supposed to support culturally significant organisations during the pandemic. Our story presented evidence that the application was deeply misleading and that Sacha Lord’s c…

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Co-op Live has finally launched. Now, it has to win back the public's trust 15:06

2M ago15:06

15:06

Co-op Live is finally live! Bury rock band Elbow performed at Manchester's new £365 million arena to a crowd of thousands on Tuesday night, after a series of disastrous mishaps where gigs were postponed or cancelled and an air conditioning vent fell from the ceiling. What was behind the delays in the first place, and what does Co-op Live have to do…

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J-Lab Episode 41: Breaking the RAAC in schools story with Jessica Hill 37:06

2M ago37:06

37:06

Our guest on this episode is Jessica Hill, senior investigations and features reporter for Schools Week and FE Week. Jessica was the first journalist to reveal to the general public how reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was ‘a ticking time bomb’ making school buildings ‘liable to collapse’. She brought the scale of the danger to an even…

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J-Lab Episode 40: Going undercover with Paul Morgan-Bentley of The Times 35:21

2M ago35:21

35:21

Our guest on this episode is Paul Morgan-Bentley, head of investigations at The Times newspaper, who has just scooped Investigation of the Year at the Press Awards for undercover reporting that exposed the force-fitting of British Gas meters in the homes of vulnerable people.In our conversation, Paul explains how he reported this story, why he thin…

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Manchester's homeless camp had good intentions. Was that enough? 18:18

3M ago18:18

18:18

On Friday 22nd March, tents started gathering under the porticoes outside Manchester Town Hall in St Peter’s Square. An activist named Emma was protesting the government not halting arms sales to Israel, and seeing the sleeping bags under the porticoes gave her an idea. Within a few days, dozens of tents were outside the town hall and there was a w…

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Who is to blame for the Night & Day Cafe saga? 42:02

4M ago42:02

42:02

In late 2021, a noise complaint filed to Manchester City Council about the iconic Northern Quarter venue Night & Day Cafe caused a city-wide row that lasted more than two years. In today's episode, Jack and Joshi discuss Jack's recent piece, that took a deeper look at what, until now, had been quite a simple story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr…

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The mistreatment of Manchester's homeless community 15:04

4M ago15:04

15:04

When a video emerged of a Greater Manchester Police constable kicking and stamping on a homeless refugee, there was a huge public outcry. Andy Burnham demanded an internal investigation and homelessness charities called it "appalling, unacceptable and degrading". What does this incident tell us about the police's attitudes to the homeless community…

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The extraordinary stories of ordinary Mancunians 20:00

5M ago20:00

20:00

In 2016, Caroline Dyer and Colette Burroughs-Rose shared frustrations with how the world was becoming more divided. They believed the political developments of the time — the election of Donald Trump and Brexit — had caused more friction in the world and there was a need for more nuanced conversations to help us reconnect. In the aftermath of this …

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Exclusive: Bernie Sanders tells us about a "disaster for democracy" 29:36

5M ago29:36

29:36

Earlier this week, our editor Joshi Herrmann sat down with US Senator Bernie Sanders to discuss the colossal decline of local news in the UK, how that impacts communities and how he imagines the crisis in local news might be resolved. "It is a disaster for democracy," Bernie Sanders told us, a powerful statement about something we all care about. I…

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Is Rochdale a cursed constituency? 13:14

5M ago13:14

13:14

When Sir Tony Lloyd died last month, his seat in Rochdale looked like a relatively easy hold for Labour. Now, with the party’s candidate disowned for spreading a conspiracy theory about Israel and George Galloway picking up support over the war in Gaza, the by-election has entered uncharted territory. Under the glare of the national media, three fo…

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Is Manchester a 'rentier city'? 46:36

6M ago46:36

46:36

"How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it?" That's the subject of tenant organiser and author Isaac Rose's debut book, The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis. In this week's episode, Joshi Herrmann hears from Isaac Rose about whether …

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Should Greater Manchester be partnering with Fujitsu? 13:37

6M ago13:37

13:37

Last month, before Mr Bates vs The Post Office created a massive public outcry and elevated Fujitsu to nationwide notoriety as the company that allowed its software bugs to destroy the lives and reputations of hundreds of innocent subpostmasters, Andy Burnham and Manchester City Council leader Bev Craig were on a bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo, o…

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Who is behind the Manchester Nightlife videos? 15:16

7M ago15:16

15:16

For the past year, we've been aware of a bizarre new trend where TikTok creators share videos of women wandering the streets on a night out in Manchester. The video creators claim to be documenting modern life in Manchester, but watch enough of these videos and you’ll start to see an extremely skewed version of the city, where beautiful, drunk wome…

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Our 2023 in review 41:54

7M ago41:54

41:54

It's nearly the end of 2023! What a year it's been. In our final episode of the year, Joshi, Mollie and Jack round up their favourite stories and take you behind-the-scenes of reporting some of our big investigations and feelgood features. Many thanks to the Hallé for sponsoring this week's episode. Manchester is globally renowned for its bands and…

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Chanel comes to Manchester 15:35

8M ago15:35

15:35

In this week's episode, Mollie and Jack talk about gatecrashing Chanel's exclusive afterparty at Victoria Baths, the importance of the French luxury fashion house coming to the city and the collective hysteria that settled over Manchester as celebrities flocked to the best hotels and restaurants. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info…

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'Cheap talk'? A former Downing Street advisor takes on critics of the 'Manchester model' 55:45

8M ago55:45

55:45

Some say the 'Manchester model' is a cautionary tale about what happens when a city hands over its keys to property investors. Others say it's an example of how the great cities of the UK should regenerate and rebuild their prosperity. Economist Mike Emmerich is closer to the second view and has been a key voice in the city for decades. He used to …

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Where is Manchester supposed to put its students? 20:43

8M ago20:43

20:43

In this week's episode, Mollie and Jack talk about Fallowfield, the south Manchester neighbourhood that has become a de facto student village for those studying at the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. Local residents, many who have lived in the area for decades, feel like they are being forgotten, and that their loca…

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Inside Manchester’s secret network of women calling out their exes 11:38

9M ago11:38

11:38

In this episode, Mollie and Jack discuss a very hard-to-access Facebook group in which Mancunian women warn each other about who not to date. The group seems like an important safety mechanism for a generation of women who do a lot of their dating via apps, meeting complete strangers rather than dates who are friends of friends. But does the group …

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Cut from different cloth: is Manchester where Chanel really belongs? 12:23

9M ago12:23

12:23

In this week's episode, Mollie and Jack talk about where Chanel - the French luxury fashion house - is looking to host its next show. We know it's going to be in Manchester, but Mollie and our intern Shikhar did some more digging to find out exactly where. The answer is surprising, until you take a second to think about it. Seeing the brand couldn'…

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She escaped the Taliban, now she's homeless on the Curry Mile 28:27

9M ago28:27

28:27

In this week's episode, we hear from our intern, Shikhar Talwar. He and Mollie discuss his investigation into why Afghan refugees - who came here to escape the Taliban in the summer of 2021 - are now turning up homeless in Manchester, having been evicted from the hotels they were originally housed in. Shikhar met Khooshbo Ali, sat with her back aga…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Joshi Herrmann Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The Manchester Weekly from The Mill

The Mill

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J-Lab

Civic Journalism Lab at Newcastle University

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The strange death of Levenshulme Market 16:34

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How did a semi in Harpurhey sell for £1.8m? 21:07

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Do Manchester's theatres have a class problem? 37:38

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Britain doesn't have a second city 18:56

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Clinging on in east Manchester 22:02

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General Election preview: Keir Starmer gets his candidates in Greater Manchester 12:43

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Sacha Lord has withdrawn his legal threat against The Mill 30:26

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Co-op Live has finally launched. Now, it has to win back the public's trust 15:06

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J-Lab Episode 41: Breaking the RAAC in schools story with Jessica Hill 37:06

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J-Lab Episode 40: Going undercover with Paul Morgan-Bentley of The Times 35:21

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Manchester's homeless camp had good intentions. Was that enough? 18:18

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Who is to blame for the Night & Day Cafe saga? 42:02

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The mistreatment of Manchester's homeless community 15:04

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The extraordinary stories of ordinary Mancunians 20:00

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Exclusive: Bernie Sanders tells us about a "disaster for democracy" 29:36

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Is Rochdale a cursed constituency? 13:14

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Is Manchester a 'rentier city'? 46:36

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Should Greater Manchester be partnering with Fujitsu? 13:37

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Who is behind the Manchester Nightlife videos? 15:16

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Our 2023 in review 41:54

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Chanel comes to Manchester 15:35

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'Cheap talk'? A former Downing Street advisor takes on critics of the 'Manchester model' 55:45

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Where is Manchester supposed to put its students? 20:43

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Inside Manchester’s secret network of women calling out their exes 11:38

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Cut from different cloth: is Manchester where Chanel really belongs? 12:23

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She escaped the Taliban, now she's homeless on the Curry Mile 28:27

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