00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name is Theo Cousin Betts and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people about this city and some of its famous faces.
00:07And that's because there's a massive amount of people who are associated with the city for a wide range of reasons.
00:12From sports figures to music icons to people who've had massive parts play in terms of queer identity and culture and the city's brilliant industrial history too.
00:21We want to know what one person people associate the city of Manchester with the most.
00:25It can be people like Sir Alex Ferguson who did so much to make Manchester United into a sporting superpower or it can be people who are at the forefront of the suffragette movement, people like Emmeline Pankhurst.
00:35So Brian Manchester today asking people for that one person who they most think represents this brilliant city.
00:41The one that comes to mind is Friedrich Engels just because of the book he wrote on the condition of the working class in Manchester.
00:48There's a statue I think near Deansgate off Friedrich Engels because he did like a big survey of like I think Ancotes as well which is quite close.
00:57So Friedrich Engels because of this book condition of the working class based in Manchester which kicked off a lot of trade union stuff.
01:03Just trying to think. I mean Oasis does come to mind and I think you think of Manchester's direct way to be fair so Oasis doesn't come to mind though it's a simple one.
01:10It was a survey of the average life of people working class people in the Victorian period and what life was like in a big additional state like Manchester as well as like judging or kind of going around asking people questions about how they feel about the city and it's kind of part of the basis for a lot of Marxist theory especially trade unions.
01:34The guy's a legend. He's one of these artists who kept going and he didn't give a damn whether or not people liked what he did or not.
01:45He just kept doing his thing. I think Mark E. Smith is like that as well who's another Manchester hero.
01:51You know if you go to a foal gig and there could be loads of people there or there could be no one there and they just kept doing it and they did it until they died.
02:00And they just you know absolutely absolutely did it for the art and absolute heroes of mine those two.
02:07I think I think to a degree I think definitely when it comes to the people themselves definitely I think when it comes to maybe the businesses and the corporations probably not so much.
02:18There's definitely amongst people who I work with and work around there is still more socialist or worker working class basis which I think still carries on from those those times.
02:29Well I think it's just massively welcoming I mean it's quite a diverse city you know I've now moved to York for uni but there's now I think in Manchester I think there's a lot more diversity where it's welcomed and I think historically as well there's been a lot more war in the arts and where people have been able to bring what they've got to the city really.
02:47Like such like an independent place like Northern Quarter and yeah people are welcome.
02:51And it's not London it's far enough away from London that it does its own thing.
