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The North Will Rise Again
- In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands
- Narrated by: Dan Pye
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents The North Will Rise Again by Alex Niven, read by Dan Pye.
"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the Crisis of Care
An in-depth exploration of the importance of the North of England in the modern era.
The North Will Rise Again covers the colourful adventures of its inhabitants, the expansiveness and optimism that defines Northern culture, and the recurrent sense of failure and despair that is at the heart of one of the West’s most impoverished regions.
By telling the story of the North in the last few decades, Alex goes in search of answers to some of the big questions at the forefront of British politics and society today, touching on live issues including the North/South divide, austerity, the impact of Brexit, the collapse of Labour’s ‘Red Wall’, and calls for regional devolution. He concludes with a powerful argument for a revival of northern politics and society by way of what he calls ‘radical regionalism’.
A native Northerner himself, having returned to his home city of Newcastle with his family in the last few years, Alex also includes elements of memoir and stories from his own family history to reflect some of the key arguments of his book.
To what extent are the crises of the last ten years partly the result of fundamental divides and inequalities in the geography of England? How did the North become a place of lost potential and broken dreams? And what can be done to make it one of the most dynamic and forward-looking places in the world once again? Niven considers all these questions and more in this lively and highly topical book.
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- Norm DePloom
- 17-05-23
Great book and a rallying cry but frustratingly let down by the reading.
Dan Pye’s performance doesn’t seem to have been edited, and there are numerous repetitions where words have been stumbled over that are left in.
There are also irritating mispronunciations (Morden Tower becomes Mordern Tower, Peter Mandelson becomes Peter Mendelson, among others) which gives the impression that the reader doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
It’s a distraction from what is nevertheless a brilliant book.
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- davidjh
- 01-04-24
A Hopeful View
I liked Alex’s left leaning appraisal, cultural analysis and historical overview. Well worth a listen
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- Brian Petit
- 15-02-23
Glorious
A moving and thoughtful engagement with the rich cultural history of the English North and Northern identity
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