Northern Drift

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Elizabeth Alker with the best new poetry and music from the North.

Elizabeth Alker with the best new poetry and music from the North: recorded with a live audience at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

Elizabeth Alker with the best new poetry and music from the North: recorded with a live audience at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

Northern Drift: Amanda Dalton and Daniel Thorne

Amanda Dalton and Daniel Thorne

BBC Radio 3 - Northern Drift, Amanda Dalton and Daniel Thorne

Poet Amanda Dalton and saxophonist Daniel Thorne at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.

Poet Amanda Dalton and Liverpool based saxophonist Daniel Thorne join Elizabeth Alker and an audience at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

Radio 3's cabaret of words and music from Hebden Bridge's Trades Club returns with a little bit of magic...
That's the title of one of the poems offered by Hebden's own Amanda Dalton. She discusses how she crafts her poetry and shares intimate readings in front of our live audience.
Music is provided by saxophonist Daniel Thorne who finds inspiration in the changeable climes of Liverpool - far from his birthplace in Perth. 
Enjoy some northern perspectives from the heart of the Calder Valley. 

Presented by Elizabeth Alker
Produced by Kevin Core

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