Highlights from The Yorkshire Post features team
Assistant Features Editor Laura Reid looks at some of the long-reads from the features team this week including a Long Lost Family reunion and an inspirational inventor.
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00:00 Hi, I'm Laura Reid, the Assistant Features Editor at the Yorkshire Post. I just wanted
00:06 to come on again this week to talk you through some of the features that we've had online
00:10 in print in case you've missed them. So there's plenty to be going at in terms of long reads
00:15 over the weekend and we've of course got our Yorkshire Post magazine out on Saturday as
00:20 well as part of our weekend edition. So at the start of the week we looked back on 50
00:27 years of Ilkley Literature Festival. There was some scepticism initially about the event
00:31 but the festival over its lifetime has attracted some big names including Philip Larkin, Ted
00:36 Hughes, Alan Bennett and Margaret Atwood and this year of course turns 50. We also spoke
00:42 to a North Yorkshire woman who featured in the TV show Long Lost Family. After 25 years
00:48 of searching she was able to find and meet her long lost brother. We heard how a Wakefield
00:54 man who was planning his funeral after being diagnosed with a heart condition is now about
00:59 to take on a Guinness World Record karting challenge and we spoke to a woman who having
01:04 unexpectedly become an inventor at secondary school has dedicated much of her career to
01:09 getting younger people involved in her industry. We ran a piece on how the future of the Old
01:15 Chapel music studios in Leeds where the Kaiser Chiefs started out is under threat and a fundraising
01:21 campaign has been launched to help and we chatted with a Yorkshireman who formerly worked
01:26 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Chris Tarrant about a book that he has written on
01:30 TV quiz programmes. We also heard how a new children's book is teaching youngsters about
01:36 the events of the partition of India which sparked waves of violence and mass migration
01:41 in 1947. And finally in Arts and Culture we delved into a new exhibition at the Henry
01:47 Moore Institute which explores the relationship between sculpture and poetry and we heard
01:52 how taxi driving tales have inspired a new dance theatre piece too.
01:56 Thank you.
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