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09.09.2023 - 07:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A new publicly-funded podcast series has launched as part of a campaign to tackle gender-based violence. The #IsThisOkay? podcast features men from Greater Manchester talking about unacceptable behaviours faced by women.
It comes after mayor Andy Burnham launched a campaign under the same name aimed at men and boys following the murder of Sarah Everard by a police officer in London. The public engagement campaign, which has had £150,000 of funding from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), is part of the city-region's 10-year gender-based violence strategy.
The new three-episode podcast hosted by Mancunian writer, journalist and influencer Noz Choudry brings together men from different backgrounds to have an 'open discussion' about attitudes and behaviours towards women. Speaking at a media event ahead of the release this week, he said: "I love the fact that this podcast is part of a greater strategy to deal with this in a real way.
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"Also what I loved about the whole strategy and what we were getting involved in is that it spoke to this really Manc attitude of 'let's get to the crux of what the problem is, let's not faff about with things that are unimportant, let's get to what's important.'
"What can we do in a practical sense? What is the practical difference we can make? So much of that is speaking to men."
The first phase of the campaign kicked off in December 2021 with a 92-second video highlighting the sort sexual harassment that women and girls face daily. So far, this part of the campaign has reached 5.3m views online.
A survey of 400 men and boys aged 18-35 in Greater Manchester found that half had seen
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Coronation Street star Sally Dynevor has been flooded with supportive messages from her co-stars and fans as she shared her pride in a special announcement. The actress took to social media to share how her eldest daughter, Phoebe, was gracing the cover of the latest ELLE USA magazine.
The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has been warned he is 'risking the cohesion' of the country over HS2, as Labour mayors including Andy Burnham said axing the high-speed rail route to Manchester would result in 'international embarrassment and a national outrage'.
Five Labour mayors including Andy Burnham have warned failure to deliver in full on HS2 would 'leave swathes of the North with Victorian transport infrastructure unfit for purpose'.
Sixty businesses have backed Andy Burnham's plans for technical education which the government has branded 'narrow' and 'unequal'. Microsoft, Heinz and the BBC are among the big employers to sign up to the mayor's scheme.
Nearly two months after Angus Cloud’s death, the late actor’s loved ones are opening up about the final days leading up to his devastating loss, and his “deep troubles” battling addiction.
Andy Burnham today apologised for 'teething problems' on the first working day of Greater Manchester's new bus system, but insisted by and large the launch has gone well.
Political leaders have told the Prime Minister scrapping HS2 rail to Manchester would have 'massive ramifications' on the city region and the north west as a whole.
The mayor of Greater Manchester has said he will personally write to the Prime Minister and urge him to not scrap HS2.
The launch of bus franchising today - putting power back into the hands of the people over operators - heralds the start of the Bee Network in Greater Manchester.
The Prime Minister will deliver a speech today in Downing Street at 4.30pm.
Naman Ramachandran iHeartPodcasts and The Meteor are launching “In Retrospect,” a pop culture podcast by Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett. Each week on “In Retrospect,” Banikarim and Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them, to try to understand what it taught them about the world and a woman’s place in it.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Rolling Stone published an excerpt from Leslie Jones’ new memoir in which the actor opened up about the brutal racism and death threats she received over her involvement in the 2016 “Ghostbusters” reboot. The Sony release, directed by “Bridesmaids” helmer Paul Feig, became the target of racist and misogynistic trolls for featuring a main cast of all women. Jones starred in “Ghostbusters” opposite Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon.
Andy Burnham has said Labour will bring HS2 to Manchester despite the party failing to guarantee that the high-speed railway project will go ahead over the weekend. The Greater Manchester mayor said he has been reassured that the party's commitment to two major northern railway projects has not changed.
EXCLUSIVE: Lion Forge Entertainment is expanding the studio’s management team under President and Chief Content Officer Stephanie Sperber, with the addition of three key executives. Former Hello Sunshine exec and multi-award-winning executive producer Kirsten Newlands joins as Executive Vice President of Production and Content Partnerships; Emmy-nominated children’s media creative Koyalee Chanda serves as Senior Vice President of Animation; and seasoned kids distribution and sales executive Jonathan Abraham joins as Director of Distribution.
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Andy Burnham today accused the Government of making the North pay for its failure to properly manage HS2 after it emerged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering scrapping the Manchester leg of the controversial high speed rail project.
The “Hot Topics” on The View are going to get even hotter as their podcast Behind the Table gets an expansion along with the premiere of Season 27 on Tuesday, September 5.
Andy Burnham and four other Mayors across England have vowed to continue the fight to stop plans to close 1,000 train ticket offices. In July the Greater Manchester Mayor said he was preparing to launch a legal action against the train operators' plans to try and halt the proposal.
A police union chief has blasted government changes to misconduct proceedings for officers as a "complete contradiction to what fairness and indepedence stand for." Greater Manchester Police Federation chair, Mke Peake, said it would amount to a return to "police chiefs marking their own homework."