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Writing Yorkshire: 1: From Barnsley to Sheffield

1: From Barnsley to Sheffield

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Writing Yorkshire, 1: From Barnsley to Sheffield

Ian McMillan goes on a literary tour of Yorkshire

Ian McMillan goes on a literary tour of Yorkshire. Featuring Barry Hines, Blake Morrison and John Shuttleworth.

Poet, Radio presenter, and Yorkshireman Ian McMillan has been on a 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 chats to Blake Morrison, author of 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?' about the idiosyncratic way that Yorkshiremen speak, and brings us the following programmes from the BBC Archives:

A Kestrel for A Knave
Episode 1 of the 2008 Book at Bedtime adaptation of Barry Hines novel read by James Anthony Pearson.

Still Angry After All These Years
Documentary following Barry Hines as he returns to the streets of Barnsley

The Shuttleworths - Mini Break in Giggleswick

Presenter: Ian McMillan

Producer: Jessica Treen

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2018.

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