with A. J. P. Taylor
The fabric was cotton. The age - the great industrial explosion of the 19th century. Manchester was Cottonopolis - city of mills, machines and muck -the first working model of industrial capitalism.
A. J. p. TAYLOR , himself from a Lancashire cotton family, explores the rise and fall of this great merchant civilisation and assesses the importance of what really was ' Made in Manchester'.
Producer Andrew SNELL BBC Manchester