The Northern Agenda
The Northern Agenda is a weekly podcast covering politics and public affairs from across the North of England, voiced by journalists who are outside the Westminster bubble, reporting from the other side of the North/South divide.
From Blackpool to Barnsley and Bamburgh and everywhere in between, exploring subjects such as levelling up to buses, elections to the latest council scraps, The Northern Agenda brings you discussion and analysis of the North's big political stories, from people experiencing them on the ground.
Rob Parsons and Liam Thorp look at the political stories that really matter to the North - and from the North - that you won't hear about from the national media in London.
The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons, and it is produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin.
You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/
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Alex Niven on why he believes the North will ri...
How did the North become a place of lost potential and broken dreams? And what can be done to make it one of the most dynamic and forward-looking places in the world once again?
37 min
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EXCLUSIVE: The Northern Agenda hosts the hustin...
This week the Northern Agenda podcast comes from the headquarters of the North East's Chronicle and Journal newspapers in the centre of Newcastle for a special mayoral hustings edition.
60 min
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The Northern Agenda's Road to the Election: Bla...
The Northern Agenda is on the road - and Rob Parsons is in the seaside resort of Blackpool, where there will soon be an early electoral test for Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak.
50 min
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🎓 Why bright Northern students don't apply to C...
Northern Agenda podcast: Rob Parsons interviews Director of Admissions at Cambridge's Pembroke College, Dr Caroline Burt
23 min
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Muslims in the North: how a new museum in Leeds...
This week Rob Parsons finds out about a new museum display celebrating the trailblazing contributions of Muslims living and working in the North of England.
41 min
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Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram: their plan to ...
The Greater Manchester and Liverpool metro mayors discuss their new book, Head North, with Rob Parsons and Jo Timan
40 min
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Reaction to the Rochdale by-election result | 2...
Jo Timan sends a dispatch from Rochdale about who won as firebrand former Labour MP George Galloway bids to pull off a shock upset to return him to Parliament.
38 min
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Reform UK: raging against the machine, or the U...
We know Reform is anti-lockdown, pro-Brexit, in favour of slashing taxes and leans into a number of divisive culture war issues. But does it have any policies to improve the lives of people in the North of England?
39 min
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Will George Galloway be Rochdale's next MP? | D...
With the Rochdale by-election making headlines this week, Rob chats to Jo Timan about what locals make of it - and would firebrand George Galloway make a good MP?
45 min
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How to make politics funny: With Matt Chorley a...
A behind-the-scenes look at the Northern Agenda's weekly cartoon conference, joined by special guest Times Radio's Matt Chorley
39 min
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No corruption but plenty of secrecy: What next ...
Rob Parsons looks into the long-awaited - and long-delayed report - murky goings-on at Teesworks, the flagship regeneration project in the North East
35 min
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Why is there a bias against Northern voices - a...
Jen Bowden and Dr Kate Fox join The Northern Agenda's Daniel J. McLaughlin to discuss the unconscious biases standing in the way of people from the North trying to tell their stories on a national stage.
37 min
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A North East mayor: Why should we care?
What will the devolution deal and arrival of a mayor mean for the North East?
49 min
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Keir Starmer up North | Hear Labour leader as h...
Labour leader Keir Starmer visits Manchester Evening News
38 min
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There's more than one big election up North in ...
The Northern Agenda podcast is back after a Christmas break for 2024 - and it seems only right to kick off the year with a look ahead to some of the stories we're going to be talking about in Northern politics in the next 12 months.
45 min
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Is Manchester now the London of the North?
Rob Parsons asks his guests: is Manchester the new London? Is Andy Burnham on a collision course with the Government over his clean air plans? And why is Daresbury now a hotbed of the world's key new technologies?
48 min
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This Is The North 2023: 'A Radical North – The ...
Rob Parsons reports from the This Is The North Convention 2023, organised by the People's Powerhouse, a movement that aims to bring people of the North together to discuss, explore, share and celebrate all the amazing grassroots organisations in the North.
43 min
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Wear on the up: The transformation of Sunderland
In a special episode of The Northern Agenda podcast, Rob Parsons has spent time in Sunderland speaking to the people behind its ongoing transformation, as well as locals in the city itself.
67 min
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Reaction to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement...
Rob Parsons is joined by Treasury minister Gareth Davies, the NP11's Clare Hayward, and Henri Murison from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership
44 min
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Dehenna Davison MP on her time as levelling up ...
Plus Rob Parsons quizzes the North's biggest bus operator about why West Yorkshire should not go down the route of franchising
53 min
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The North in Numbers: Dangerous dogs
Annie Gouk is back with the podcast that looks at the human stories behind the statistics
31 min
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✍️ A Writing Chance: how budding writers from u...
Claire Malcolm, the chief executive of New Writing North, and Katy Shaw, Professor of 21st Century Writing and Publishing at Northumbria University, tell Rob Parsons why the scheme is so important.
18 min
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Tomorrow's MPs: Michael Crick lifts the lid on ...
Michael Crick, the broadcaster behind the Tomorrow's MPs Twitter account, sheds a light on the often secretive and murky way the main parties choose the candidates for winnable seats in Parliament.
42 min
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📅 Rishi Sunak - One Year In: has the Prime Mini...
Rob Parsons is joined by the Liverpool Echo's Liam Thorp and Manchester Evening News' Joseph Timan to talk about a year of Sunak, Keir Starmer's challenging week dealing with unrest from Labour's Muslim MPs, and how shutting hotels for asylum seekers might cause more problems in the long term in Greater Manchester.
30 min
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🏠 How do we solve the housing crisis and why ar...
Rob Parsons chats to Amy Newton, founder of the Manchester Tech Festival, about how people from the North's council estates can get the kind of jobs that are cropping up in the shiny sky-scrapers of Manchester city centre
49 min