This is a road trip around Manchester in honour of the great novels and poems of Manchester literary history – Love On the Dole, Fame is the Spur, Magnolia Street, Hard Times, Don Juan, The Masque of Anarchy, Salome Malone and plenty of Anthony Burgess in his centenary year.
The guide is Ed Glinert, official Manchester tour guide and Penguin author, editor of Penguin’s Sherlock Holmes stories amongst other books.
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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