Bang To Rights podcast

Rebecca Redican presents this week's NQ Live programme. We report on the Budget, the "Girls Night In" boycott in Manchester, protesting against drinks and injection spiking, and on the hopes among the Man Met delegation travelling to Glasgow for COP26. Follow all the Northern Quota news at https://thenorthernquota.org/

Rebecca Redican reports for The Northern Quota on the Mock COP26 conference held at Manchester Metropolitan University. Students met in a series of role-plays as members of government, NGO, or multinational company delegations to thrash out resolutions designed to confront global warming. The conference was organised by MMU's Professor Liz Price.

Bang To Rights is back - with a guided walking tour around some of the milestones in the history of journalism in Manchester. We start with the foundation of The Manchester Guardian in response to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, and follow the traditions of radical journalism right up to the present day. Our thanks to Kathy Davies of Sheffield Hallam University, Helen Pidd of The Guardian, Joshi Hermann, founder of The Mill, and to Conrad Bower, co-founder of The Meteor. Presented by Dr Eleanor Shember-Critchley and Pete Murray of Man Met Uni's multimedia journalism department

Recording the voices of ICU nurses and doctors treating patients with Covid-19, or a crowdsourcing journalism project to examine the future of government after the lockdown, to the sound of the Coronavirus itself, this week there's more from the crew on how journalists around the UK and beyond are responding to the health emergency, and finding innovative ways of documenting the biggest story of our lives. Listen to Radio 4's The NHS Front Line here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h5l1 Read more about The Tortoise slow news website and subscribe to The Sensemaker here: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/sensemaker/ Ofcom's survey on false claims about the virus is here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-releases/2020/half-of-uk-adults-exposed-to-false-claims-about-coronavirus?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Half%20of%20UK%20adults%20exposed%20to%20false%20claims%20about%20coronavirus&utm_content=Half%20of%20UK%20adults%20exposed%20to%20false%20claims%20about%20coronavirus+CID_f74d1c411c5fe38865813ae53cdc2ba1&utm_source=updates&utm_term=news%20release The NCTJ's advice on covering Coronavirus and Covid-19 is here: https://www.nctj.com/latestnews/seven-tips-journalists-reporting-covid-19-science-media-centre Read about the MIT project to turn the structure of the virus into music here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/scientists-have-turned-structure-coronavirus-music# And you can read tributes to the late Dennis Aris on the Westmorland Gazette website: https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/18353165.tributes-paid-retired-gazette-journalist-loses-battle-coronavirus/ And also on Holdthefrontpage: https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2020/news/first-rate-journalist-dies-aged-76-after-coronavirus-battle/ Contact us on Twitter @RightsBang. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher Thanks

In a bumper episode, we speak to journalists from Lancashire to The Hague, Italy to Hong Kong about how Coronavirus and the Covid-19 lockdown has changed their working lives, and how it feels to be covering the biggest news story of a generation - as well as the joys of translating Dutch poetry! Huge thanks to all who took part this week. Liz Hannaford's report on the work of our former students is here: https://thenorthernquota.org/news/manchester-met-journalism-graduates-reporting-coronavirus-stories-across-our-region You can read more about the Timperley guitar shop finding a surge in business during the Covid-19 clampdown on the BBC News website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-manchester-52008753/coronavirus-surge-in-guitar-and-ukelele-sales-as-people-try-to-fill-their-time Do check out the Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast on international justice: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/category/episodes/ Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. Contact us on Twitter @RightsBang Thanks for listening