Manc 61: Dr Kirsty Fairclough - The Queen of Pop Culture with a Purple Reign Over Manchester

“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.