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Folk Around And Find Out

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Folklore & History Enthusiast Curator of Hidden West Yorkshire for the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0hzw9dt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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BBC Sounds - Hidden West Yorkshire - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Hidden West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds.

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Secret North Yorkshire - The ghosts of Byland Abbey - BBC Sounds

Discover Byland Abbey’s chilling ghost tales from 15th-century Yorkshire.

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Denys Fisher, the Leeds-born pacifist weapons engineer who changed toys for good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Spirograph engineer who turned his back on weapons for toys

Denys Fisher was running a company making weapon components when he had his Eureka moment.

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Secret South Yorkshire - Inside centuries-old Sheffield "Caking" tradition - BBC Sounds

Folklorist Richard Bradley talks about the Sheffield tradition of “Caking Night”

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The legend of the Bradford Boar - BBC Sounds

Janet Senior explains where the story comes from.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The Halifax beheadings - BBC Sounds

Discover the gruesome history of the 13th Century gibbet.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The legend of Elland's headless horseman - BBC Sounds

Author Paul Weatherhead tells the tale of "Old Leathery Coit".

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The case of the secret Leeds coin clipper - BBC Sounds

Chris Nickson tells the story of Arthur Mangy, who was hanged for treason in 1696.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The 330 million year old oddity in Bradford park - BBC Sounds

Lister Park is home to one of the oldest fossilised trees in the world.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The Halifax story of deceit, murder and millions - BBC Sounds

Author Steve Hartley on the story of the Cragg Vale coiners.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The haunting at Leeds Library - BBC Sounds

The Victorian library is haunted by a former employee.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The ghosts of Leeds’ theatres - BBC Sounds

The waiter who walks through walls and a Victorian singer both feature.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The mystery of the bloody footprint - BBC Sounds

Mandy Tyas from Oakwell Hall explains the story of Captain William Blatt.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The Brontë ghost haunting Haworth pub - BBC Sounds

Staff at the Black Bull pub in Haworth have heard the service bell ring after hours.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The monstrous black dog of Otley - BBC Sounds

Daisy Lyons from Turnip Fish Theatre Company reads the story of ‘The Barguest of Otley’.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The lore of the Calderdale talisman - BBC Sounds

John Billingsley is an expert on the subject of folklore in the Calder Valley.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 12

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Hidden Bradford - The ghost that saved Bradford - BBC Sounds

Paul Hodgson explores Bolling Hall's ghostly legends.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · May 25

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Hidden West Yorkshire - Rudyard Kipling story inspired by Wakefield man - BBC Sounds

Chris Green talks about Frederick Wilson from Wakefield.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · May 25

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The Leeds building with sheep on the roof - BBC Sounds

Martin Hamilton, director of Leeds Civic Trust, on the varied history of Temple Works.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · May 25

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The Halifax Slasher - BBC Sounds

In 1938, Halifax police investigated a series of attacks, but not all was as it seemed.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · May 25

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The Leeds witch who predicted the end of the world - BBC Sounds

The true story of "the Yorkshire Witch" Mary Bateman.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Jun 6

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The curious memorial of Ethel Preston - BBC Sounds

Ann Lightman of Friends Of Lawnswood Cemetery tells us Ethel's story.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Hidden West Yorkshire - The singing hermit of Ilkley Moor - BBC Sounds

Job Senior’s voice and walls still echo across Ilkley Moor, 200 years on.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Hidden West Yorkshire - How tragedy struck a West Yorkshire circus - BBC Sounds

Rare, 19th-century circus posters are revealed in Wakefield.

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Folk Around And Find Out @folkaround.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Hidden West Yorkshire - Inside a 700 year old abandoned Leeds castle - BBC Sounds

There is a 14th Century castle nestled within a forest on the Harewood Estate.