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The Run of The Mill episodes

November 14, 2023 Inside Manchester’s secret network of women calling out their exes
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 always stick to its stated premise?

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12 min
October 30, 2023 Cut from different cloth: is Manchester where Chanel really belongs?
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't have existed without the textiles the city produced, there's an argument that a Manchester show is actually Chanel returning to its roots.
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13 min
October 19, 2023 She escaped the Taliban, now she's homeless on the Curry Mile
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 against a dustbin on the Curry Mile. She came to Manchester from Bhusawal, a small village beside the Kabul river. She told him: “I am not even sure if coming to England was better than staying in Afghanistan”.
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29 min
October 10, 2023 Will our trains ever not be a joke?
In this episode, Mollie and Daniel discuss the biggest headline that came out of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester last week — the scrapping of the Manchester leg of HS2. How much of a big deal is this for Manchester, and what's the situation on our existing, not so high-speed, railways?

Many thanks to the Great Northern Craft Fair for sponsoring this episode. The contemporary craft fair is back at Victoria Baths this month (Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 October) and will feature beautiful hand-made pieces from the most talented ceramicists, jewellers, textile and glass artists, printmakers, sculptors, blacksmiths and silversmiths in the land, not to workshops, exhibitions and craft demos. Listeners can get two tickets for the price of one by following this special link.
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18 min
October 02, 2023 Exclusive: The Arts Council is investigating finances at Wigan’s Old Courts
In this week's episode, Mollie and Joshi talk about the Old Courts, a beautiful arts and culture institution in Wigan that was showered with public money and held up as an example of how the arts can be spread in towns far from London. However, when ex staff members started reaching out two weeks ago to tell us the organisation was in a financial meltdown, we started asking why that might be... Plus, we take you behind our reporting to show you how these investigations come together.
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19 min
September 22, 2023 The powerlessness of Michaela Ali
In this week's episode, Joshi and Jack talk about Michaela Ali, who has been waiting over a year for her housing association to fix her rat-infested flat. Despite multiple complaints about the infestation, Michaela's housing association, Riverside, didn't get around to properly addressing it until recently. Joshi and Jack talk about how that story came to be - beginning with Michaela's mother, Margaret, coming into The Mill's office to ask us to help publicise her struggle - and what may happen next. If you enjoyed this episode, please do leave us a rating and a review and share the episode link with friends - it will massively help us.
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21 min
August 23, 2023 Who's going to join Soho House Manchester?
LA, Berlin, Miami... Manchester. Soho House is opening its latest private members club in the old Granada building next year. Its founder Nick Jones says he's nervous about the launch — should he be? Joshi and Molie discuss what the launch says about Manchester and what kind of person might join.
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28 min
August 08, 2023 'I never wanted to move from Ukraine. My friends wanted to, but I never did.'
In this week’s episode, Joshi and Jack discuss the case of Andrew Malkinson, who was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, and wrongly imprisoned for 17 years. Questions have been raised about Greater Manchester Police’s investigation into Malkinson, and whether the force withholding, and in some cases destroying, pieces of evidence contributed to an innocent man going to jail. Jack also talks about his latest weekend read on the Tyshkul family, who he first met last March when they arrived in Manchester as refugees of the war in Ukraine. What have the last 18 months been like as refugees in Manchester? And what are the next steps the family might take?
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27 min
July 31, 2023 Who is really benefiting from Manchester's rapid growth?
In this week's episode, our data and policy reporter Daniel Timms talks about his big weekend read about Manchester's ongoing economic boom. Are the proceeds mainly going to property developers and the wealthy - or are the benefits spreading more widely? Daniel has spent the past few weeks digging into lots of data and speaking to leading economists and experts to try to answer that question - and some of his conclusions are surprising. (The episode features a few clips from the BBC documentary Manctopia, and a Radio 4 programme about Manchester's growth). If you enjoyed this episode, please do leave us a rating and a review and share the episode link with friends - it will massively help us.
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25 min
July 24, 2023 There are lots of rumours about Sacha Lord, but what's the truth?
In this week's episode, Jack discusses his long read about Sacha Lord, the man who runs Warehouse Project and Parklife and who advises Andy Burnham. It's a new kind of podcast for us - a conversation in our office about how we did a story and the challenges that we encountered. Why did none of Lord's critics want to speak on the record? And what kind of rumours did we try to stand up? Please let us know what you thought of this new format by emailing [email protected]. And thanks for listening!
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32 min

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Hello! This is The Run of The Mill podcast — a somewhat-weekly podcast from the team behind The Mill, Manchester's best newspaper since 2020. Join Ophira, Jack and the rest of the team as they take…