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Made in Yorkshire

As the 大象传媒 Festival Contains Strong Language broadcasts from Leeds, Words and Music celebrates writing and music from the county of the Bront毛s, James Herriott and Ted Hughes.

Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones/Gentleman Jack) and Paul Copley (Downton Abbey/Last Tango in Halifax) take us on a literary journey through their native Yorkshire starting in the west of the county in the depths of the Calder Valley with poets Ted Hughes and Zaffar Kunial, and the treacherous Cragg Vale Coiners courtesy of novelist Ben Myers. Over the moors we encounter the famous Bronte sisters before heading south to Marsden for some cricket with poet laureate Simon Armitage. In Halifax we meet 19th-century diarist Anne Lister 鈥� perhaps better known as Gentleman Jack - before arriving in 1970s Leeds a time when, as novelist Kate Atkinson puts it, Yorkshire was 鈥榓wash with serial killers鈥�. Heading east we get to Hull with 17th century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell, and Winifred Holtby who used her mother鈥檚 experience as an alderwoman in the East Riding of Yorkshire as the basis of her 1935 novel South Riding. Further up the coast we stop of at the oriental themed Peasholm Park in Scarborough with Doncaster poet Sarah Wimbush, and the Victorian seaside town Saltburn-by-the-Sea with Carmen Marcus, daughter of a Yorkshire fisherman. Back inland and further north, vet James Herriot delivers a calf in Thirsk, and Yorkshire dialect campaigner Dorothy Una Ratcliffe describes April in Wensleydale, despite really being from Surrey. With music by Yorkshire composers including Eric Fenby, John Barry, Hannah Peel, and John Hebden, and the bells of Hull Minster reimagined by electronic duo Nightports.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

Readings:
Benjamin Myers 鈥� The Gallows Pole
Emily Bronte 鈥� The Night Is Darkening Round Me
Ted Hughes 鈥� The Thought Fox
Charlotte Bronte 鈥� Shirley
Zaffar Kunial 鈥� Bronte Taxis
Helena Whitbread (ed.) - The Diaries of Anne Lister
Simon Armitage 鈥� The Catch
Kate Atkinson 鈥� Started Early, Took My Dog
Andrew Marvell 鈥� The Fair Singer
Winifred Holtby 鈥� South Riding
Sarah Wimbush 鈥� Peasholm Park
Carmen Marcus 鈥� Skeining
James Herriot 鈥� All Creatures Great And Small
Dorothy Una Ratcliffe 鈥� April in Wensleydale

You can find a series of programmes being recorded at and broadcast from Leeds from the Contains Strong Language Festival 2023 available on 大象传媒 Sounds including Radio 3's Arts & Ideas programme Free Thinking, the new writing programme The Verb, Radio 3's Sunday Drama.

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 24 Sep 2023 17:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Thomas Clark

    On Ilkla Moor Baht'At

    Performer: The Spinners.
    • 78 Man Records.
    • 3.
  • 00:01

    Eric Fenby

    Rossini on Ilkla Moor - overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Resonance RSB 502.
    • 11.

  • Benjamin Myers

    The Gallows Pole, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:03

    The Mystery Lights

    What Happens When You Turn The Devil Down

    Performer: The Mystery Lights.
    • Wick Records.
    • 11.
  • 00:03

    Eric Fenby

    Overture: Rossini on Ilkla Moor

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.

  • Emily Bronte

    The Night Is Darkening Round Me, read by Gemma Whelan

  • 00:05

    The Mystery Lights

    What Happens When You Turn the Devil Down

  • 00:06

    Alfred Newman

    Cathy's Theme from Wuthering Heights

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.
    • Silva Screen FilmXCD 352.
    • 7.
  • 00:08

    Alfred Newman

    Cathy's Theme (Wuthering Heights)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.

  • Ted Hughes

    The Thought Fox, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:09

    Kenneth Leighton

    6 Study-variations for pno (Op.56), no.2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion CDA67267.
    • 19.

  • Charlotte Bronte

    Shirley, read by Gemma Whelan

  • 00:12

    Kenneth Leighton

    Study-variation Op.56 no.2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
  • 00:13

    Nightports

    Tolls

    Performer: Nightports.
    • The Leaf Label.
    • 1.
  • 00:15

    Nightports

    Tolls

  • Zaffar Kunial

    Bronte Taxis, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:17

    O'Hooley & Tidow

    Gentleman Jack

    Performer: O'Hooley & Tidow.
    • No Masters.
    • 3.
  • 00:19

    O'Hooley & Tidow

    Gentleman Jack

  • Helena Whitbread (editor)

    The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, read by Gemma Whelan

  • 00:20

    William Sterndale Bennett

    String Quartet in G Major, WoO 17 - I. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Villiers Quartet.
    • Naxos 8571379.
    • 1.
  • 00:22

    William Sterndale Bennett

    String Quartet in G major (1st mvt: Allegro moderato)

    Ensemble: Villiers Quartet.

  • Simon Armitage

    The Catch, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:27

    Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Soul Limbo

    Performer: Booker T. & The M.G.'s.
    • Stax Records.
    • 6.

  • Kate Atkinson

    Started Early, Took My Dog, read by Gemma Whelan

  • 00:28

    Bay City Rollers

    Bye Bye Baby

    • Arista.
    • 1.
  • 00:29

    Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Soul Limbo

  • 00:30

    John Hebden

    6 Concerti for Strings, Op. 2: Concerto No. 6 in D Minor

    Ensemble: Cantilena. Conductor: Adrian Shepherd.
    • Chandos 1596238.
    • 6.
  • 00:31

    Bay City Rollers

    Bye bye baby

  • 00:33

    John Hebden

    Concerto no.6 in D minor

    Ensemble: Cantilena. Conductor: Adrian Shepherd.

  • Andrew Marvell

    The Fair Singer, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:41

    John Barry

    The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair

    Performer: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Silva Screen FILMXCD305.
    • 10.
  • 00:43

    John Barry

    The Girl with the Sun in her Hair

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Winifred Holtby

    South Riding, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:46

    Gordon Langford

    3 Haworth Impressions for Brass Band 鈥� No 3 The Worth Valley Railway

    Performer: Black Dyke Band.
    • Chandos CHAN4520.
    • 6.
  • 00:48

    Gordon Langford

    The Worth Valley Railway (3 Haworth Impressions)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band.

  • Sarah Wimbush

    Peasholm Park, read by Gemma Whelan

  • 00:50

    Trad.

    Scarborough Fair

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • 2.
    • DG.
  • 00:52

    Trad.

    Scarborough Fair

    Singer: Kate Royal. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.

  • Carmen Marcus

    Skeining, read by Gemma Whelan

  • 00:54

    Hannah Peel

    Sunrise Through The Dusty Nebula

    Performer: Tubular Brass.
    • My Own Pleasure MOP08CD.
    • 2.
  • 00:56

    Hannah Peel

    Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula

    Ensemble: Tubular Brass.

  • James Herriot

    All Creatures Great And Small, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:59

    Johnny Pearson

    All Creatures Great and Small

  • Dorothy Una Ratcliffe

    April in Wensleydale, read by Gemma Whelan

  • 01:01

    Johnny Pearson

    All Creatures Great and Small

  • 01:01

    Frederick Delius

    Idylle de Printemps

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle CDHLL7528.
    • 6.
  • 01:03

    Frederick Delius

    Idylle de Printemps

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.

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