The Rev John Atkinson spent the second half of last century in the remote parish of Danby on the North Yorkshire moors. He was intrigued by the speech and customs of his parishioners, which he recorded in his great work
40 Years in a Moorland Parish. James Munson selects from the book to give a flavour of life in Victorian Danby. with Geoffrey Banks as Atkinson Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester