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Podcast episode 145: New politics, New Towns and new books

Podcast episode 145 is available now via this link or from iTunes and Spotify and it sees the welcome return of the Hitting The High Notes series.

Just before heading off to Spain for a couple of weeks I was in Manchester and took the opportunity to catch up with old friends of the podcast Ian Wray, Claire Petricca-Riding and David Diggle, and new friends of the podcast Charlotte Leach and Louise Fountain.

Over the course of an hour or so we enjoyed a good ol’ fashioned 50 Shades ramblechat. We talked about the increasingly rancorous nature of planning and whether a sense of fractiousness and febrility is driving the rise of Reform as a political force. We also talked about New Towns and Ian’s 'Northern Arc' proposition, and, towards the end, we swapped holiday reading recommendations.



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