Bill Henderson

I present The Packed Lunch show on Thursdays at mid-day. I moved from London and the South forty years ago. Moving first to Sheffield and then to Manchester at the start of the personal computer stage. I started with a Sinclair and upgraded it and learned to programme after a fashion. This was the start of many changes to peoples lives, jobs were lost and new skills had to be learned.
Manchester was the centre for one of my great interests, the Industrial Revolution. For many years I was able to follow the many canals, seek out the old roads and look for the old factories and housing estates. All very interesting. It gave me a view of how society should be working and to an extent brought me into conflict with the rest of society, a proper odd man out.
For many years I have been concerned that a great percentage of the people have become disenchanted with the way the country is run and had opted out. I consider the percentage of people who feel they need to opt out is a major danger to our countries future.
It is my considered opinion that the elected representatives have become isolated from the people and have lost touch with what needs to be done to build housing estates like Wythenshawe into a Community.
A local radio station like Wythenshawe FM 97.2 is a superb platform for drawing the people together, how this is to be done could be a subject for some of its programmes in the future. In the meantime we must be in contact with the many other organisations in Wythenshawe and encourage them to participate on the radio and advertise what they have to offer.
I met a member of WFM at a meeting and was asked to join up as a volunteer, which I did, and here we are trying to map out the future without causing too much chaos.