Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays

It’s easy to tell how old the people running British TV are these days: they’re all my age. I know this because they keep commissioning programmes about the music and culture of their formative years, which are my formative years. Here’s a great big (seriously: it’s an hour-and-a-half long) piece of Manchester mythography: a documentary feature about Manchester’s maddening but unassailably brilliant Factory Records, a record label that dreamed of being a cultural force, a remaker of its home city, something we’d never forget. I was trying to think of other super-influential record labels and innevitably settled on Motown but then I remembered that Motown actually left Detroit. Factory would never have left Manchester (the show first went out last year).