“It’s about creating a new generation of Mancs who believe they can do anything”

Can a museum do exactly that? Sally MacDonald is the Director of the Science and Industry Museum, and that’s her aim. Sally learnt about the importance of looking and storytelling through objects, after attending an art class at Manchester Museum as a child. 

Her passion continued as she studied archaeology and went on to open museums in London -  before being pulled back up north by the job at MOSI in 2014.

In this episode, you’ll hear how the museum fuses together old and new technologies to keep industry alive; how it’s responding to the return of visitors post-pandemic, and how it’s working towards achieving Manchester's ambitious carbon-negative goals.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: 

Via our website

On Instagram

On Twitter

On Spotify

Connect with Sally and MOSI

Via the MOSI website

On LinkedIn

On Twitter

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met

“I'm living the dream - Manchester United fan, boy and man”

What’s it like to live your dream? Alan Keegan is otherwise known as “The Voice of Old Trafford”, where he’s the corporate MC and matchday compere.  

Alan’s family came to Manchester from the west of Ireland in the late 50’s. They settled in Chorlton Upon Medlock, where his mum ran a shop, which was a real hub of the community.  With players like George Best, Alan and his family were cemented as lifelong supporters of Manchester United.  

He’s been working at Manchester United since the late 90’s. In this episode, you'll hear the stories of the managers and players that have passed through during that time, and you’ll hear what Alan’s learnt from them about leadership and teamwork too.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: 

Via our website

On Instagram

On Twitter

On Spotify

Connect with Alan

On Instagram

On Twitter

Via his Website 

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met

“So much of social media was a gold rush”

At 28 Dominic McGregor has already sold his first very successful business Social Chain which he co-founded with Dragon Steven Barlett, Dom has now moved into the world of investments with Fearless Adventures. He says he knows what it's like to start a company and face the business world for the first time overwhelmed, so, he is driven by helping first time entrepreneurs on their venture. 

Hear what it was like to work in the social media space in the very early days of social media content and marketing and how Dom and Steven went from winging it to creating a business culture with values that saw a great team form around them and go onto big things.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: 

Via our website

On Instagram

On Twitter

On Spotify

Connect with Dom

On Twitter

On Instagram

Via his website 

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met

“We’re enabling a city region of tinkerers”

Dr Marilyn ​​Comrie OBE is a green tech entrepreneur who is passionate about creating opportunities for young people to thrive.  She’s also a leader for diversity and inclusion in the city.

As you’ll hear Marilyn believes in following the “golden thread” of life.  She’s followed a flow of life which has taken her all over the world and changed her path on several occasions. 

Marilyn and her two sons Nile and Blair overcame many hurdles whilst setting up their joint venture “The Blair Project”.  You’ll also hear how their commitment to never leaving the game early landed them with £10,000 in their account just at the right time.  They went on to build an inspiring business, turn over half a million and create the next generation of engineers and leaders.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: 

Via our website

On Instagram

On Twitter

On Spotify

Connect with Marilyn 

On LinkedIn

Via The Blair Project’s website 

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met

“When I go to a club and the music is great and it’s full of  young people I think, this is the next revolution.”

Dave Haslam is a legendary Manc, who helped to create the eclectic sound of the Hacienda through his weekly DJ sets during the late 80’s and 90’s and then at iconic Manchester club The Boardwalk. He played for the Hacienda crowds over 480 times and was even the last person to spin vinyl on the infamous decks.

Undoubtedly Dave has cemented himself as a music veteran and has continued venturing into the world of arts and culture, curating bands for Manchester International Festival and writing books about music, artists, ideas and places, Dave’s passion for his projects is evident and his desire to share them works its way into everything he does. 

Join Lisa Morton as she hears about the time Dave cooked cauliflower cheese for Morrisey, how he came to part with all of his vinyl and why Tony Wilson wanted him dead.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: 

Via our website

On Instagram

On Twitter

On Spotify

Connect with Dave

Via his website

On Instagram

On Twitter

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met

“There’s a real sense of collaboration in Manchester that’s quite unique”

Dr Kirsty Fairclough is a reader in Screen Studies and Chair of the Manchester Jazz Festival.  She’s also on the Music Board for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority - and as you’ll hear in this interview, she oozes Manchester music culture.  However, it’s not just the maraca shaking scene of the nineties that Kirsty champions, as she says, there’s so much more.

You’ll hear how Kirsty went from gaining two GCSEs in high school, to lecturing at The University of Salford, just one year after graduating herself, at the age of 21. You’ll also hear how Kirsty connected Manchester and Minneapolis through her love of Prince.

Lisa and Kirsty also discuss the exciting development of Manchester Metropolitan University’s new SODA building and how the Manchester music scene is recovering after the pandemic, through creating new opportunities for young emerging artists.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: 

Via our website

On Instagram

On Twitter

On Spotify

Connect with Kirsty

Via the SODA website

On Twitter

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met

“If you put it out there, you’ll get it back”

Siobhan Johnston is a sales executive for Hits Radio.

This episode is a lesson in how to get out of things what you put in and giving everything your all. Siobhan is a big believer in putting your dreams out into the universe to see them realised, she tells Lisa how she went from losing everything to being headhunted by Manchester City to manage The Tunnel Club, along with achieving everything else on her “list”.

Born and bred in North Manchester Siobhan lives Mancunian values of integrity, loyalty and hard graft and has enough stories to fill a book, from spending an afternoon in the cells underneath Kendal’s to stroking Ronaldo’s freshly waxed legs, you won’t forget about Siobhan once you meet her.     

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: 

Via our website

On Instagram

On Twitter

On Spotify

Mentioned in this episode:

We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Met