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- Holwick Stories: 4. A passion for digging (12:39)
What motivates the volunteers to make that commitment to brave the elements and turn out for the dig?
13 min - Holwick Stories: 3. Finds from the dig (14:25)
Volunteers Perry and Mike share the exciting structures and objects discovered at the Holwick dig.
15 min - Holwick stories: 2. At work in the dig (15:05)
Rachel talks to the volunteers to find out about their detective work and what is revealed beneath the surface of the archaeological dig at Holwick in Teesdale.
16 min - Holwick stories: 1. Running the dig (16:26)
Rachel talks to the organisers of the Holwick dig in Teesdale to find out what it takes to set up and run such an excavation.
17 min - 047 Unsung North East Hero: Stan Beckensall (56:05)
Historian, archaeologist and leading authority on rock art, Stan Beckensall MBE relates fascinating stories from his work and shares his poetry, all inspired by living in the unique county of Northumberland.
57 min - 047 No Greater Love: an extract from a novel by Janet Macleod Trotter (4:57)
An extract from Janet MacLeod Trotter's novel No Greater Love set in the tumultuous times of the struggle for the emancipation of women.
On the streets of Newcastle, working class Suffragette, Maggie Beaton, endures the taunts of the crowd.
5 min - 3 min
- 045 We are Weardale: Wolsingham Primary School Year 6 (4:10)
The pupils of Year 6 at Wolsingham Primary School reacord each other as they talk about living in Weardale.
This podcast was produced as part of the 'We are Weardale' project sponsored by Durham County Council.
5 min - 044 We are Weardale: Wolsingham Primary School Year 3 (5:23)
The pupils of Year 3 at Wolsingham Primary School record each other as they talk about living in Weardale.
This podcast was produced as part of the 'We are Weardale' project sponsored by Durham County Council.
6 min - 043 We are Weardale: Luncheon Club at St John's Chapel (11:30)
The pupils of St John's Chapel meet and record people from the local luncheon club.
This podcast is part of the 'We are Weardale' project sponsored by Durhan County Council.
12 min
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Taking North East culture to a global audience: a cornucopia of radio plays, monologues, poetry, stories real and imagined, oral history.