Assistant Features Editor Laura Reid looks back at a week in features at The Yorkshire Post, including interviews with Richard Hawley and Peter Levy.
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00:00 Hi I'm Laura Reid, the Deputy Features Editor at the Yorkshire Post. I've just come on to
00:05 talk you through some of the features that we've run online and in print this
00:08 week in case you've missed them. Lots of long reads to be going at over the
00:13 weekend and we've of course got our Yorkshire Post magazine as well, published
00:16 on Saturday as part of our weekend edition with lots more features to come
00:20 in there as well. So this week we spoke to BBC Look North presenter Peter
00:27 Levy as he started to present the lunchtime news again after 21 years. He
00:32 told us about his beloved Hull, the Selby Rail disaster and what it was
00:36 like to work in the newsroom through the COVID pandemic. We also spoke to a
00:42 Yorkshire woman who lives with congenital heart disease and is now
00:46 volunteering to help others and we heard from scientist and author Sarah
00:50 Watkinson on her climate themed novel and the vital role that fungi plays in
00:55 the Yorkshire Dales. Author and former diplomat Jean Harrod told us about how
01:00 the North Yorkshire legend of Kitty Garthway has been the inspiration for
01:03 her latest book and we heard how a California author discovered and was
01:08 inspired by the fact that his ancestors were linked to tragedy in Yorkshire's
01:12 coalfields. Sheffield singer Richard Harley told us about how music kept him
01:17 on the straight and narrow whilst a former drug dealer from Rotherham spoke
01:21 to us about how he turned his back on crime and is now helping other people to
01:26 address trauma and criminality. In Arts and Culture we looked at Bradford
01:31 Theatre Company Commonwealth's latest show Fast, Fast, Slow and Michael Frayn's
01:37 famous Fast Noises Off which is in Yorkshire this month. If you want to
01:43 keep up to date with all the latest content from the features team we send
01:46 out a weekly newsletter, the Yorkshire Lifestyle newsletter, which you can
01:51 subscribe to and that's got all our features from the print editions that
01:58 week as well as our magazine stories with food and drink content, fashion,
02:05 property, arts and culture and lots more there. Thanks!