DCMS Secretary of State Lisa Nandy Confirmed as First Speaker for Tuning In North 2025

The event will take place at the RIBA-award winning Stoller Hall on the morning of Thursday 13th March 2025 with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, The Rt Hon Lisa Nandy MP, the first speaker to be confirmed.

Lisa Nandy was appointed Secretary of State for DCMS in July 2024 and has been MP for Wigan since 2010. Before her parliamentary career, she supported vulnerable children as a researcher at Centrepoint and senior policy advisor at The Children’s Society. She is also author of ‘All In: How we build a country that works’, a book which argues power and responsibility should be handed back to local areas, while doing much more to draw on the talent and potential of every part of Britain.

Tuning In North is part of Radiocentre’s nationwide event series to showcase the latest developments in radio and audio advertising and brands, agencies and Radiocentre member stations from across the North of England can register now to secure a free place. For those not able to attend in person, a livestream option will be available.

Beginning with a networking breakfast, the morning will be filled with thought-provoking speakers, exciting new research, inspiring case studies, best practice creative, and more. A full agenda will be released in the coming months.

Chief executive of Radiocentre Matt Payton said, “We’re honoured that the Secretary of State for DCMS will be speaking at Tuning In North 2025 which is set to be our biggest and most ambitious conference outside London to date. Manchester, which is a thriving creative, digital and technology hub, is the perfect setting and we look forward to once more bringing together our friends and colleagues from all over the North to explore the latest developments in radio and audio.”

Past Radiocentre events in Manchester have featured speakers including Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, Hits Radio presenter Gemma Atkinson, podcasters Chris Scull and John Gibbons, Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts, Take That’s Howard Donald, head of media at Arnold Clark Emily Walker, and regional managing director at Wavemaker Emma Slater. To find out more about these and to see highlights from other past events in the series, visit the Tuning In hub.