Meta Manchester

In this episode Brian Connolly talks about growing up in Moss side, studying art and design at Manchester Polytechnic, following his creative path to London and eventually breaking into the world famous 'Mad Men' world of advertising in New York city.

http://www.brianconnollywork.com/

This week my guest is Jamie Kennerley - a Mancunian living and working in a small town in Brazil.

He shares stories about

Fun conversation with Robert Brooks as he shares stories about moving to Finland and learning a language considered to be one of the most difficult to learn.

Here, Rob talks about:

Good vibes and a nice chat with an old friend -  Marsha Thomason - from Oldham Sixth Form College as she shares stories about 

- getting her first big break

My guest this week is Chris McGuire - one of the top camera operators in the tv and film industry.

Get ready for some serious A-list name dropping!

Jennie McGuirk is a creative consultant working in Los Angeles. Here she explains her love for her home town of Manchester and how she defines Mancunian philosophy.

Jennie also shares amusing stories of the British experience in a world of truth-bombs, self-promotion and confident 20-year-olds walking around speaking like they're 40-something.

In this episode, my guest is Matt Barraclough. He's an old friend who runs a TV and video production agency in Manchester.

Here, he shares entertaining stories about:

- the differences between Manchester and Leeds

- climbing the ladder to success

- working in advertising vs drama

- bullying in the work place

- the business of problem solving

- and Manchester as a creative hub to rival London.

Matt is one my favourite storytellers and you'll see why! 

My friend Lee McKenzie tells the story of leaving Manchester, traveling the world, figuring out life and building his passion project of designing 'Kings and Crooks' - bespoke playing cards for magicians and card connoisseurs.

In this episode, Aniff Akinola talks about his 30-plus-year music production career which got started from 'sweating like mad' on the dancefloors of various Manchester nightclubs in 1979.

He shares stories about:

- growing up chopping firewood in the backyard

Aniff has been there and done that so there are a few A-list names being dropped in this episode. I certainly enjoyed this conversation. I hope you do too.

In this episode Debbie Steer shares her story of leaving Manchester and emigrating to Australia - almost on a whim.

She talks about starting from the bottom as an intern / production assistant and working her way up to become one of the most accomplished producers working in animation today.

This is special two-part episode which includes a separate conversation recorded a year earlier as we dive into more details about Debbie's journey.