Our special guest on the Baltic Triangle podcast #16 is a Baltic Podcast Regular Professor Michael Parkinson from the University of Liverpool. Micheal is one of the country's leading experts in urban regeneration and in particular the Merseyside economy.

We first interviewed Michael last June upon the release of his book, Liverpool - Beyond the  Brink, where he analysed the triumphs and challenges of the local economy - now, of course, made considerably more acute following the coronavirus crisis.

There is probably no academic more knowledgeable about the Merseyside business environment  and so we felt it is important to get his view on where he thinks the local economy might be headed in these troubling times.....and while many of his comments do not paint a rose-tinted picture by any means, he believes there IS light at the end of a long, dark tunnel....as he told Mick Ord and Mark Reeson."