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Manchester is noted for its excellent theatres, among them:
The city is also home to two highly-regarded drama schools; The Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre and the Arden School of Theatre.
Manchester has a wide variety of buildings from Victorian architecture through to modern. Much of the architecture in the city harks back to its former days as a global centre for the cotton trade. Many warehouses have now been converted for other uses but the external appearance remains mostly unchanged so the city maintains much of its original character.
Structures of interest in Manchester include:
The BBC has its north west headquarters in New Broadcasting House on Manchester's Oxford Road, while Granada Television also have their original headquarters in the Castlefield area of the city. The city is the main television broadcasting centre outside London.
The city's main newspaper is the Manchester Evening News and the town is home to local radio stations such as BBC GMR, Key 103, Century FM and Smooth FM , as well as some smaller stations.
The Guardian newspaper was founded in Manchester in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian. Its head office is in Manchester, though many of its management functions were moved to London in 1964. It still shares a Manchester office on Deansgate with its sister publication, the Manchester Evening News.Manchester is home to two Universities: The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. The former is the largest university in Britain, and was created in autumn 2004 by the merger of the former Victoria University of Manchester with UMIST.
Together with nearby Salford University, and the Royal Northern College of Music, these give the area a student population in excess of 50,000. This is one of the biggest student populations in Britain or Europe.
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