Manchester, United

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, a conversation with music journalist Eve Barlow about the terror attack in Manchester and the city’s rich musical history. Plus, “Master of None” co-creator Alan Yang reveals behind-the-scenes stories from the Netflix series, and an expert on con artists dissects America’s fascination with flim-flam men.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	Studio 360
0:08.6	This is the place
0:16.8	In the northwest of England
0:18.8	It's ace
0:19.7	It's the best in the songs that we sing
0:21.8	from the stands from our band set the whole planet shaking.
0:28.3	I'm Kurt Anderson, and that is a writer named Tony Walsh,
0:32.6	reading his poem, This Is the Place,
0:35.8	reading it at a vigil on Tuesday in Manchester, England, his hometown.
0:42.5	The night before, the jihadist suicide bomber had walked into the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena,
0:50.4	detonating himself, killing 22 other people, many of them young girls, one was eight years old.
0:58.2	Unfathomable.
1:00.5	There's something about targeting a concert in Manchester that makes this act of terror somehow even more horrific, more clash of civilizations sinister.
1:13.6	Manchester is a city that has produced many, many great bands over the last 50 years, such as Herman's Hermits.
1:21.2	The Buzzcocks. The Buzzcocks
1:27.9	The Smiths
1:27.9	New Yorker
1:41.3	New Order
1:41.3	How does it feel
1:43.6	To drink me like you do Like you do New Order.
1:50.1	And Oasis.
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