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Writing Yorkshire

2: From Haworth to Leeds

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Poet, radio presenter, and Yorkshireman Ian McMillan continues his literary tour around God's Own Country to visit the streets, towns, cities and moors that have inspired so much classic writing.

From Ian's own home town of Barnsley and his own literary hero Barry Hines, to the Moors of Haworth that will forever belong to The Brontës, we're exploring a county bursting at the seams with writers and writing.

* Ian visits the Bronte Parsonage Cottage in Howarth, Keighley to learn more about the sisters.

* Wuthering Heights - Episode 4 from BBC Radio 4's 2018 adaptation by Rachel Joyce of Emily Bronte's novel.

* Writers on Themselves: Ted Hughes - Ted's essay 'The Rock', first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1963.

* At the offices of Peepal Tree Press in Leeds, Ian meets African-Caribbean poet Khadijh Ibrahim.

* Desert Island Discs: Barbara Taylor Bradford - from BBC Radio 4 July 2003 [Extract]

The conclusion to Ian’s conversation with Blake Morrison.

Producer: Jessica Treen

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in September 2018. Show less

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