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But what do you remember about that game? Because, again, you would have been doing live text commentary for the BBC for that.

Yeah, so what I remember about that was it was in the office in Salford, Media City, and there's obviously a lot of people working on that day who supported both teams, so Manchester United and Manchester City.

Interesting, yeah.

I mean, it was a crazy game, wasn't it? The league changed hands a lot of times, and then Chieko scored...

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We're coming from the Contained Strong Language Festival this week here in front of an audience in the BBC Philharmonic studio in Media City.

And we are looking a very long way back.

Something like 2,300 years ago, a Babylonian scribe gathered together fragments of poetry... to create what we know as the Epic of Gilgamesh.

One of the powerful things colleagues have done to get people to think about how places sound is to go on a simple sound walk.

Take your earbuds out and just walk and hear what's in the city around you.

If you were to walk outside here in Media City, you'd probably be surprised by how much you can hear.

Now, not much of that's going to take you back in time, but it's certainly going to give you that escape and that sense of thinking about the detail of life rather than worrying about... what's happening in the news at the moment.

You know, I think obviously it's great going to see artists in traditional venues.

And one of the things that we're doing this year at Beyond the Music and moving to Media City, which is... uh the multimedia hub for the northwest home of the bbc and um we have about six different sound stages there and that's just fantastic because you know it's more of a platform for an artist isn't it so it's not just playing a show and connecting to the immediate audience there it's the ability to reach further out into the ecosystem so i could see that it would benefit artists uh this venue and the format well

we'll see what happens when it when it opens but our final story Music Business Worldwide has the inside track on a new report from Chartmetric that shows the UK's market share of superstar artists has declined.

The report, which defines superstars as the top 0.02% of artists, says the UK share of such acts has declined from 10.3% in 2021 to just 7.6%.

It's genuinely like a different event when it comes to the music industry and creative industry.

So we're just really excited.

Now it's at Media City, that just brings a whole new landscape of sort of experience, like how people can experience an event like this.

So it's super exciting.

I can't wait for you to go and have to go and explain to BBC.

Are you guys? Are you all right, Paul? What's the matter? Going to Salford in Media City.

Well, I know we've got a podcast about a Sunday League football club following.

with trials and tribulations in it.