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Tweet of the DayPolly Atkin on the Long-eared OwlThe non-fiction writer Polly Atkin is particularly fond of owls. Tawny owls surround her home in Grasmere in Cumbria, and she has observed the wintering of short-eared owls at the coast. One which remains elusive is the highly secretive long-eared owl, which Polly has never seen in the wild. Considered to be thinly but widely-spread in the UK, they are a scarce breeding species and very difficult to survey. Polly recalls stories from centuries ago of large colonies of long-eared owls resident in the Cumbrian woodland.Polly Atkin is the author of The Company of Owls (Elliott...
2026-02-0801 min
Farming Today03/01/26 Farming Today This Week: Farms for City Children at 50, horse-powered pints, mart tradition, 18th century farmer diaryA round up of seasonal offerings from Farming Today.The charity Farms for City Children turns 50 this year. Set up by writer Michael Morpurgo and his wife in 1976, the charity works to connect children with farming and the countryside. Fiona Clampin dons her wellies and joins the Morpurgos at their farm in Devon.Farming life is full of traditions, and we hear from Rathfriland Livestock Market in County Down about one of these: the luck penny. Farmers selling their animals hand money back to the buyer, to seal the deal. It's a way of wishing...
2026-01-0324 minFarming Today01/01/26 Isaac Fletcher's Farming DiariesHistorians in Cumbria are publishing extracts from the diary of an 18th century yeoman farmer. The writings of Isaac Fletcher, who farmed at Mosser near Cockermouth, will be featured by the Cumbria County History Trust on their website every month. His diary provides a window onto life in rural Cumbria 250 years ago, and an insight for farmers who work the land there still. Helen Millican meets two of Isaac's biggest fans, historian Angus Winchester and local farmer Mark Clark, who give her a tour of what would have been Isaac's farm.You can...
2026-01-0113 minTweet of the DayPolly Atkin on the Short-Eared OwlThe poet and non-fiction writer Polly Atkin observes the wintering of short-eared owls in Cumbria. They are the UK's most nomadic owl, with residents joined by migrants from Scandinavia, Iceland and Russia, seeking a gentler version of the season. Fellow owl-lovers have told Polly of the moment they arrive exhausted at the coast, and she has watched a pair nest in a building site near the sea, concerned how they would survive.Polly Atkin is the author of The Company of Owls (Elliott & Thompson).Presented by Polly Atkin and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC...
2025-12-2801 min
Strange But True CrimeBonus: Pick up a penguinFormer zoo worker Bradley Tomes hatches a plan to steal and sell Humboldt penguins Patrick and Penny from South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria.Get in touch at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Produced by Luke de Costa.
Researcher: Bethan Davies.
Social Media: Fede Marilotti.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
2025-12-2413 min
Loose EndsBen Fogle; Sarah Hall; Terry Deary; Stuart Maconie; Holly Brooke; Smith and LiddleLoose Ends is cavorting among the snow-caps of Cumbria at the Kendal Mountain Festival this week. Chef d'Equipe Stuart Maconie reaches for the summit of chat with navigation from the adventurer and broadcaster Ben Fogle - celebrating twenty five years since he was Castaway on a remote Scottish island for the BBC reality TV show that he says is more relevant today than ever. The award-winning writer Sarah Hall provides forecasts as she describes the star of her new novel Helm - a personification of Britain's only named wind, the puckish, mercurial, destructive force of the Eden Valley she...
2025-11-2236 min
Radical with Amol RajanBeyond Ultra-Processed Foods: Can Farmers Fix Our Health and the Planet? (James Rebanks)Is it possible to produce enough healthy food to feed the nation whilst also restoring nature? The farmer and best-selling author James Rebanks thinks it is but says there needs to be a radical change to government policy and our entire food system. He explains why he thinks farming subsidies are flawed, the unintended consequences of cheap food, and the delicate balance between food security and environmental stewardship. And from the hills of Cumbria to a remote island in Norway, he also reflects on the lessons he learnt about masculinity whilst writing his latest book, ‘Th...
2025-11-201h 08Farming Today27/09/25 Farming Today This Week: Bumper harvest of autumn fruits, cybersecurity, eating seasonallyAs the fallout continues from cyber attacks on Jaguar Land Rover and nursery chain Kido in recent days, so too does scrutiny of the food supply chain and how vulnerable it may be to hackers. We've talked a lot about the problems the baking weather this summer has caused farmers, but for apple, pear and plum growers it has been great. The Lyth Valley in south Cumbria is known for its damson orchards, a dazzle of snowy white blossom in spring and this year creaking under the weight of a bumper harvest. It's such a bumper crop...
2025-09-2725 min
In Detail...6. JusticeDaniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, both from Cumbria, are sentenced in a live-streamed hearing at Newcastle Crown Court. BBC Correspondent Fiona Trott describes the atmosphere on the day.The two men were each convicted of two counts of criminal damage in May.Also, Si King hears whether some of those who loved the tree feel the sentence brings closure before finally returning to Sycamore Gap to see for himself how one of his favourite places has changed forever.Presenter: Si King.
Producer: Jane Downs with additional reporting by Fiona Trott, Jo Lonsdale and...
2025-07-1614 min
The Food ProgrammeChristmas: The Gift of FoodChristmas is a time for giving, and for many charities, that often means food. Jaega Wise explores the tradition and looks into the planning that goes into festive food donations.Food historian Carwyn Graves explains how the custom of giving food at Christmas has evolved over the centuries, and why the season inspires so many to give back to their communities.In Aberdare, we meet the team behind Company at Christmas, who host a festive feast for anyone who doesn’t want to spend Christmas Day alone. The new CEO of Fareshare discusses how the ch...
2024-12-2042 min
Last WordMadeleine Riffaud, Chris Topp, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Dr Julian LittenMatthew Bannister onMadeleine Riffaud, the French resistance fighter who was tortured by the Gestapo, became a journalist and was embedded with the Vietcong in Vietnam.Chris Topp, the blacksmith who restored ironwork at Buckingham Palace, York Minster and St Paul’s Cathedral.Barbara Taylor Bradford, the best-selling author of A Woman of Substance and many other novels.Dr Julian Litten, whose fascination for the rituals surrounding death led to him being called “England’s foremost funerary historian”.Producer: Gareth Nelson-DaviesArchive:
General Charles De Gaulle speech, BBC Radi...
2024-11-2927 min
Short CutsInstructionsA pamphlet from the 1980s illuminates the world we live in now, a musical invitation for your domestic space, and some dazzling canine choreography for your ears. Josie Long presents short documentaries based around instructions.How to Listen... including How Not To, How You Ought To, and How You Won't (Extract)
Written by Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell
Produced by Stephen Potter
Originally broadcast on BBC Third Programme in 1946Hot Dogs!
Presented by Alan Smith
Produced by Steve Urquhart
Originally broadcast on Alan Smith's Mid Morning Show, BBC Radio Cumbria in 1999Hell Rubs...
2024-01-1628 min
This Cultural LifeMelvyn BraggWriter and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg is a prolific and bestselling author, having written 22 novels, many set in the Cumbrian communities in which he grew up. He has also written 18 works of historical non-fiction and biographies. As host and editor of ITV’s South Bank Show for nearly 35 years, presenter dozens of documentaries, and Radio 4 series including Start The Week and In Our Time he is synonymous with arts broadcasting in the UK. He was ennobled in 1998, taking his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Bragg of Wigton in Cumbria.
In conversation with John Wilson, Melvyn Bragg recalls his wo...
2023-08-2643 min
Adam JohnsonJason Walker former Barrow AFC forward and new match summariser for BBC Radio CumbriaInterviews for bbc radio Cumbria sport at the 24hr football game
2023-06-2404 min
Gadget Detective - A selection of free tech advice & tech news broadcasts by Fevzi Turkalp on the BBC & elsewhere16th May 2023 - Talking Deep Fake Voice Cloning on BBC CumbriaFevzi Turkalp, the Gadget Detective, joins Mike Zeller on BBC Radio Cumbria to discuss deep fake AI generated voices, and the potential dangers with scammers cloning victim's voices. How worried should we be and what can we do to protect ourselves?
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2023-05-1709 min
Business DailyA new coal mine for the UKA new coal mine in the north west of England could bring much-needed jobs and investment to the area. However there are concerns from environmentalists about the impact on the climate. The mine, in the Whitehaven area of Cumbria, is the first deep mine approved by the UK government for 30 years, and will provide fuel for steel-making.Rowan Bridge travels to Whitehaven, the town next to the site of the mine, to hear the arguments for and against.Presenter and producer: Rowan Bridge(Image: The former Woodhouse Colliery site where West...
2023-05-1518 min
Gadget Detective - A selection of free tech advice & tech news broadcasts by Fevzi Turkalp on the BBC & elsewhere3rd February 2023 - Pondering Netflix Passwords on BBC Radio CumbriaFevzi Turkalp, the Gadget Detective, joins Mike Zeller on BBC Radio Cumbria to discuss Netflix's plans to crack down on the sharing of passwords with those living at other addresses. While Netflix has backtracked, will other platforms follow suit?
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2023-02-0504 min
Out Of The Blue: Carlisle United and Barrow A.F.C.Episode 9: It's Always Cold In CumbriaFreya, Matt and Paul talk football confessions, postponements and the weekend fixtures.
2022-12-1425 min
Between the EarsDying Embers: The UK's last Coal Fired Power StationsThe UKs last remaining coal fired power stations are about to close, bringing to an end our use of coal to produce our electricity. West Burton is one of the last coal fired power stations still generating electricity, and Andrew Carter was able to record a soundscape there before it falls silent for ever.
West Burton was originally planned to close in September 2022, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine has extended its operations until the spring of 2023 to help with continuity of supply during the current energy crisis.
Andrew's late father was a mechanical engineer, and he worked for...
2022-12-0628 min
The Radio 3 DocumentaryBriggflatts - A Northern Poetic OdysseyRory Stewart travels across Cumbria and Northumbria from an ancient Quaker meeting house in Brigflatts, to a medieval tower on Newcastle city walls, in search of clues in Basil Bunting's life and work to help understand this neglected masterpiece of twentieth century modernist poetry .It's a landscape that the former MP for Penrith and the Borders knows like the back of his hand, and it's where Bunting's poetic masterpiece is largely set. Bunting called it his ‘acknowledged land’, an area stretching from Scotland to the Humber, which was once the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. A moment in time...
2022-11-2843 min
Arts & IdeasGreen Thinking: LandscapesHow have we shaped the landscapes around us, and how have landscapes shaped us? From flooding in Cumbria to community groups in Staffordshire, how can understanding the history of a landscape help planners, council policy, and current residents? Do we need to rethink the way we archive information about changes to landscapes? Professor Neil Macdonald has explored the history of relationships with landscapes, whilst artist and scientist Nicole Manley is delving into hidden knowledge to discover what people know about landscapes without realising. Professor Neil Macdonald is a Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool. He...
2021-10-2026 min
What Planet Are We On? ...with Liz BonninCOP26: Your climate questions answered!In this special episode ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Liz Bonnin puts your questions to the BBC’s environment correspondent Matt McGrath, science correspondent Victoria Gill, and energy policy expert Professor Jim Watson. With contributions from Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Mya-Rose Craig and Chris Packham, questions tackled include how much carbon does it take to melt a cubic metre of sea ice, why is a new coal mine in Cumbria even up for discussion and how will we make sure countries stick to the pledges they make at the talks?We also bust so...
2021-10-191h 02
Seriously...The Nuclear PriesthoodHow do we send a warning a hundred millennia into the future?Poet Paul Farley considers how we might warn people three thousand generations from now about the radioactive waste we’ve left in geological disposal facilities deep underground. As he does so he explores the essence of communication and storytelling and the elements of our language, art and culture which are truly universal.In countries across the world, including the UK, USA, France and Finland, the hunt is on for underground sites which will survive shifting tectonic plates or passing ice ages and remain se...
2021-09-1428 min
The Radio 3 DocumentaryThen there was Light - Stockhausen and LICHT, his opera cycle based on the seven days of the weekLICHT, the vast opera cycle composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2004 is an enigma, and composer and broadcaster Robert Worby goes on a personal journey to find out why it divides critics and audiences.Stockhausen was the most gifted composer of the post-war European avant-garde. In the 1950s, his early works - including some of the first electronic music created - confirmed his genius.But LICHT wasn't so warmly received.In LICHT Stockhausen wrote an opera cycle for the new millennium, bewildering in scale, and frequently baffling for audiences, but containing music as...
2021-07-1243 minBetween the EarsRhythms of RememberingA radiophonic exploration of The Gododdin, a lament for the fallen, bringing to life one of the oldest, yet enduringly relevant, treasures of European literatureThe Gododdin occupies a unique place in the literature of the United Kingdom. The oldest Welsh poem - a battle elegy from around 600AD - it was passed down orally, possibly in the form of song, for hundreds of years. Written down by two scribes in the 13th century in a form of proto-Welsh - Brythonic - then spoken from Scotland down through Cumbria to present day Wales, it's as strange yet...
2021-06-1629 min
RamblingsMallerstang in Cumbria with Debbie North.Debbie North uses a motorised wheelchair and is a powerful advocate for making the countryside accessible for all. Debbie had always been a keen walker but, in her 40s, was diagnosed with spinal degeneration. Very quickly she became a wheelchair user yet made the decision that this wasn’t going to stop her accessing the countryside that she loves. Today she takes Clare on one of her favourite rambles in Mallerstang. It starts at The Thrang, south of Outhgill. Although officially at the eastern edge of Cumbria, the walk is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Their destination is th...
2021-06-0324 min
Podcast Radio HourThe UK TourChris Pearson and Laura Grimshaw embark on a UK podcast tour.
Laura Lexx and Will Duggan talk to us about their show 'National Treasures', which goes on a day out of the UK's various attractions.
And Kathryn Morrison talks to us about her podcast 'My Special Place', in which BBC Local Radio invite figures like Miles Jupp and Julie Hesmondhalgh to explore the sensations and memories attached to a favourite location.Plus, we hear clips from:
Wild For Scotland
Scotland Outdoors
Ne Lass CAN
Speak Up Sunderland
Countrystride
A Little Slice of Cumbria
From A Lancashire Lass
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2021-04-301h 00
Private PassionsJames RebanksThe shepherd and writer James Rebanks shares his favourite music with Michael Berkeley and describes how he is restoring the balance of nature on his Lake District hill farm.James Rebanks’s family have lived and farmed in Cumbria for over six hundred years. His grandfather taught him to work their land in the old-fashioned way, but by the time James took over from his father, modern industrial methods and economic pressures had made hill farming almost impossible. James has told the story of his farm, his family, and his renewed hope for the future, in two be...
2021-03-2141 min
Workington Academy RadioMr Bird Talks to BBC Radio CumbriaMr Bird has been talking to BBC Radio Cumbria about the reopening of schools. Take a listen:
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2021-03-0805 min
Saturday LiveJess GillamNikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Classic BRIT award winner Jess Gillam. At 22 Jess has released 2 albums, performed at the Last Night of the Proms and became the youngest ever presenter for BBC Radio 3. Jess talks about growing up in Ulverston in Cumbria, realising childhood ambitions and using music to spread joy.Drew Pritchard is the star of TV’s Salvage Hunters. He shares his passion for junk which has led to him discovering the casts that Lord Elgin made of his infamous marbles. He’s also made a million and lost it, and made it a...
2021-02-201h 23Workington Academy RadioMr Bird Talks to BBC Radio CumbriaMr Bird has been talking to BBC Radio Cumbria about the recent school closure. Take a listen:
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2021-02-1003 min
Great LivesCaroline Catz on Delia DerbyshireActor Caroline Catz chooses Delia Derbyshire, the musician and composer best known for her work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where she realised the TV theme tune to Doctor Who.Presented by Matthew Parris.With Dr David Butler from the University of Manchester who looks after Delia's archive.Delia was born in Coventry in 1937 and describes her earliest recollections of sound as the sound of the German blitz and the air-raid sirens. She studied music and maths at Cambridge and joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where she could create sounds that had never...
2021-01-1928 min
Make a DifferenceMemory Runs and Favourite CustomersBecca Bryers guides you through surprising stories of communities across England pulling together to help others, drawn from across BBC Local Radio.This episode - Emily's husband of 12 years, Simon took his own life this summer - she shares what impact it's had on the family and how she, and her children, are now passionate about sharing their story. Plus bakery assistant Alice goes in search of Peter, her favourite customer - after being separated by the pandemic.Featuring stories from BBC Radio Cumbria, BBC Essex, BBC Radio Cornwall, BBC Radio Derby.
2020-12-0924 min
The Briefing RoomCovid-19: Regional DifferencesAs the U.K. introduces more restrictions to stem the spread of Covid-19, why are there such marked regional differences in the infection rate?Contributors: Greg Fell, Director of Public Health, Sheffield City CouncilWendy Burke, Director of Public Health, North Tyneside CouncilDr Susanna Currie, Clinical Director for Cumbria Sexual Health Services at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Dame Anne Johnson, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University College LondonDr Michael Tildesley, University of WarwickProducers: Rosamund Jones, Bob Howard and...
2020-10-1528 min
Preston Sports PodcastBBC Radio Cumbria - Jack Goodwin Reporting HighlightsJack Goodwin reports on Trafford vs Kendal Town for BBC Radio Cumbria
2020-10-1511 minThe Food ProgrammeEnglish Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.Dan Saladino visits shepherd and writer James Rebanks whose farm in Cumbria spans three generations. What does can that history teach us about where food and farming go next?In his latest book English Pastoral: An Inheritance James Rebanks provides an insiders account of the seismic changes to farming from the 1960s to the present day. Farming became brilliantly productive, he argues , but ecologically destructive. He explains how Cumbria's landscape was transformed by more intensive agriculture, and what we can do now to bring life back to the soil, to natural habitats and still the produce the...
2020-10-1128 min
The VerbLandscape & Language: Experiments in LivingThis year the Contains Strong Language Festival of poetry and spoken word goes to Cumbria, as part of the programme of events marking the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth. This week's Verb was recorded at the Forum Theatre in Barrow-in-Furness, with a small, but enthusiastic socially distanced audience. Our theme is the meeting of language and landscape, and Ian's guests are the poet Clare Shaw whose 2018 collection Flood conveys water at its most awesome and destructive, writer and playwright Zosia Wand, who uses the shifting sands of Morecambe Bay as her stage in work that examines how we...
2020-10-0244 min
Arts & IdeasCows in culture and soilFrom Cuyp's paintings, to Wordsworth's wanderings to modern dairy management and soil fertility via Victorian Industrial farming and talking Swiss satirical cows - Cumbrian farmer James Rebanks joins Matthew Sweet in a programme marking the anniversary of the poet Wordsworth, who helped shape attitudes to landscape. Other guests include New Generation Thinker Seán Williams from the University of Sheffield and Professor Karen Sayer from Leeds Trinity University who is writing Farm Animals in Britain, 1850-2001 and is part of a team of academics working on the project https://field-wt.co.uk/James Rebanks is the author o...
2020-09-3054 min
The Rams Review PodcastRR E44 Barrow AFC Preview with Barrow Fan David & BBC Radio Cumbria's Adam JohnsonJason and Cory sit down with David Ingham a Barrow AFC supporter and Adam Johnson from BBC Radio Cumbria to preview and discuss the upcoming (and first game of the season) Derby County v Barrow AFC. Who are the League Two newcomers? What style and/or system do they play? Does manager David Dunn stick to a style or can it change based off of the situation? Where are Barrow's strengths and weaknesses? We also discuss expectations for Barrow this season. And how it feels to get promoted after so long away from the English Football League. Does it...
2020-09-031h 19
Y Podlediad Dysgu CymraegPodlediad Pigion y Dysgwyr Gorffennaf 31ain 2020Aled Hughes a hanes Sabrina VergeeEfallai eich bod wedi clywed am rai sy wedi dringo 14 copa ucha Eryri, sy’n ddipyn o gamp. Ond mae Sabrina Verjee o Cumbria wedi rhedeg ‘Y Wrainwrights’ yn Ardal y Llynnoedd - 214 copa, ie 214, a hynny mewn 6 diwrnod, 17 awr a 51 munud. Hi ydy’r ferch gynta i wneud hyn ac un sy’n ei hadnabod yn dda ydy Jane Harries, golygydd Cylchgrawn Adventure She, a chafodd Aled Hughes dipyn o hanes Sabrina ganddi ar ei raglen...Copa SummitCamp AchievementEdmygu To admireParchu ...
2020-07-3114 min
Open CountryRestoration in the Lake DistrictIan Marchant talks to people involved in re-imagining the landscape and culture of the Lake District, with lines both sinuous and straight. Lee Schofield of the RSPB has been part of a project to re-meander Swindale Beck, which had become canal-like after years of 'improvement'. Lee is used to the fruits of conservation work taking years, but this time, the results were virtually instantaneous. The team finished work one Friday when it started raining. A flash flood over the weekend brought calls from the onsite supervisor, afraid of disaster: the whole valley was flooded. Lee arrived back...
2020-07-3024 min
The Radio 3 DocumentarySilent Witness: John Cage, Zen and JapanJohn Cage is arguably the most important composer of the 20th century, even though he's perhaps famous, or infamous depending on your point of view, for writing a piece of music that is 4'33" of silence.Famous because it made his reputation - after all composers write music not silence – and infamous because not unsurprisingly, it's outraged, perplexed and fascinated audiences since its premiere in 1952.Cage though was deadly serious about his silent piece, and Robert Worby goes on an odyssey to find out what Cage thought silence was, and why silence was central to hi...
2020-07-1543 min
Costing the EarthFlooding BritainWhat's the best way to prevent flooding? Caz Graham finds out whether there might be environmental alternatives to building ever-higher flood defences. She talks to a campaign group in Kendal in Cumbria, where there are multi-million pound plans to build flood barriers through the town centre, and asks the Environment Agency whether there could be more imaginative alternatives. Is Natural Flood Management the answer? Caz talks to academics and experts to find out what new solutions there might be, and what other countries are doing.Produced by Emma Campbell.
Photograph by Stuart Atkinson.CORRECTION 22/06/2020
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2020-05-2527 min
BBC Inside ScienceLockdown lessons for climate change and the carbon neutral Cumbrian coal mineWhile the world is dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, those who are concerned about the environment are saying that an arguably bigger crisis is being side-lined. Climate change, or climate breakdown, is still happening. Just like the Covid-19 pandemic, it will be the poorest people in the poorest countries that pay the highest price for the breakdown in our climate. But can we learn something from the current lockdown that can be applied to climate change? Can it provide the impetus for us to do things differently. Writer and environmentalist George Monbiot thinks so. He recently wrote that coronavirus...
2020-04-1628 min
rpharmsSandra Gidley on BBC Radio Cumbria - 03.04.20RPS President Sandra Gidley appears on BBC Radio Cumbria as she gives advice to patients visiting pharmacies during the covid-19 crisis.
2020-04-0304 min
Cook The Perfect...Regula Ysewijn with Aunty Betty’s gingerbreadRegula Ysewijn’s shares a delicious recipe for gingerbread from Cumbria.
2020-04-0208 minArts & IdeasNew Thinking: WordsworthApril 7th 1770 was the day William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria. As we prepare to mark this anniversary, poet and New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson is joined by Sally Bushell, Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature, and Simon Bainbridge, Professor of Romantic Studies – Co-Directors of The Wordsworth Centre for the Study of Poetry at the University of Lancaster to discuss new insights into Wordsworth's writing.Sally Bushell has edited The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads’ . You can find more about her research project here https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/chronotopic-cartographies/
Simon Bainbridge is the author of Mounta...
2020-03-3143 min
5 Live News SpecialsCoronavirus: Your Questions Answered 27/03/205 Live's Nicky Campbell puts your questions to the GP Dr Aisha Awan, employment expert Andy Chamberlain and assistant chief constable for Cumbria Police Andrew Slattery.They discuss what to do if you are suffering with other urgent health issues, self-employment rights and policing during the outbreak.
2020-03-2749 minOpen CountryPlanting Trees to Save the Planet in CumbriaHelen mark meets teenage environmental campaigner Amy Bray in her native Cumbria as she plants trees to help halt climate change. Amy has inspired her community to take action with a no plastic shop and helped to raise awareness with a mass fell climbing. Helen helps her as she takes on her latest challenge - to plant more trees and help to create natural flood defences as well as absorb carbon
2020-01-0924 min
The Lion PodcastBBC Radio Cumbria - Farming First AidCumbria’s first ever health and safety course for farming has been set up.
It comes after the health and safety Executive found Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing are the most dangerous industries for workplace accidents and injury.
People working in those sectors are more than 20 times more likely to be killed at work than the rest of the country.
2020-01-0603 min
Multi StoryIdentityFour stories reflecting on what makes us who we are. Including Ash, aka Maria - a drag queen from Stoke, who mixes heavy metal and pop music. Mike from Bristol shares the impact of being part of the Windrush generation, and his hopes to gain official UK citizenship. Plus a Carlisle councillor and street artist swap thoughts on the place of graffiti in their city. And poet Jodie Langford, explains why she's proud to call Hull her home.Presented and produced by Becca Bryers.With contributions from:
Perry Spiller and Liz Ellis at BBC Radio...
2019-12-0441 min
Politix and ChillElection Politix and Chill 02: Futility. Democracy. Marshmallows.Ben is joined by Sharon Edwards from BBC Radio Lincolnshire and Charlotte Rose from BBC Essex discuss election manifesto numberwang and play a drinking game with a difference. Ben explores different forms of democracy with help from the unknowable Chris Mason. Caire Hamilton from BBC Radio Merseyside and Bob Cooper from BBC Radio Cumbria look at the futility that some people feel when deciding whether their vote will make a difference.
2019-11-2250 min
Adam JohnsonBBC Radio Cumbria News Hour - Barrow AFC SegmentI spoke with BBC Radio Cumbria News Hour host Adam Powell after Barrow's 3-0 win Saturday at Notts County put Barrow top of the National League
2019-11-1805 minThe Radio 3 DocumentaryPoles ApartThe unknown tale of cold war communist Poland’s unlikely love affair with electronic music. Robert Worby finds out Warsaw was a beacon of musical freedom behind the iron curtain. It was here that the remarkable Polish Radio Experimental Studio was established in 1957, and this was the first electronic music studio in the Eastern Bloc and the fourth in Europe. This futuristic facility was at the cutting edge of modern music, and was a serious rival for existing studios in Paris, Milan, and Cologne in the West. But at a time when contemporary music was viewed with deep suspicion in...
2019-11-1543 min
Beyond TodayHow did Jamie Oliver change food culture?Jamie Oliver is one of the UK’s best-known chefs and restaurant owners. He’s had world wide success with his books, TV series, and campaigns, but this week it was announced that his restaurant company had gone into administration with the loss of 1,000 jobs. Since he came onto our screens 20 years ago with the Naked Chef series he’s had a huge impact on British food culture. To find out how we speak to the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s the Food Programme Sheila Dillon and two men whose careers he helped launch: Tim Siadatan, who runs Trullo and Pade...
2019-05-2319 minMulti StoryDwellingThree stories of making a conscious choice to live somewhere, with someone, in some particular way. Featuring the family of four living completely off-grid in Cumbria; a hunt for the residents of a Suffolk town who camped overnight to secure their new-build homes in the 1970s; and the Older Women's Co-Housing group who've built a new community in London.Presented and produced by Becca Bryers.
With contributions from:
Ed Hanson at BBC Inside Out North East and Cumbria
Matt Marvel at BBC Radio Suffolk
Claire Brennan and George Henton at BBC Inside Out London
2019-05-2238 minThe Food ProgrammeWhat makes an excellent food producer?What does it take to produce delicious food of the highest quality in the UK in 2019? This year, it was the turn of chef, food writer, BBC TV presenter, and this year's head judge in the BBC Food and Farming Awards Angela Hartnett to find out. In this programme, Angela and Sheila Dillon spend a day with each of the finalists in the Best Food Producer category. Together, they visit three farms, in Cornwall, Herefordshire and Cumbria. Among the dedicated people they meet are Tanya the 'Duck Dabbler', a woman whose expertise in duck rearing are sought...
2019-05-1228 minSaturday LiveGareth Malone, YolanDa BrownChoirmaster Gareth Malone describes working with pupils from Kensington Aldridge Academy to help them create a concert to mark the return to their school building next to Grenfell Tower.
Listener Rev'd Alan Dodds recalls his life before ordination - playing guitar in a band with David Bowie.
Mya-Rose Craig, aka 'birdgirl', has seen 5,000 species of bird and explains how she spends her weekends bird ringing.
Jane Hasell-McCosh reveals some of the strange varieties of marmalade at the Marmalade Awards and Festival in Cumbria.
Saxophonist and MOBO winner YolanDa Brown on racing driving and her search for emerging young musical...
2019-03-161h 24Arts & IdeasWomen, relationships and the law past and presentLying about a sexual attack, resisting parental pressures to marry, using the law to fight for inheritance and divorce. Shahidha Bari talks to the fiction writers Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Layla AlAmmar about their new books which depict girls who feel they need to conceal truths about sexual encounters. Historian Jennifer Aston looks at examples of nineteenth century British women fighting for divorce. Jessica Malay researches the Countess of Pembroke, Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676)The Pact We Made by Layla AlAmmar and Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen are out now. Jennifer Aston from the University of Northumbria is researching...
2019-03-0745 minRamblingsLong dresses, cloaks and bonnets. Cumbria.Why climb a snowy Cumbrian hill in a long dress, cloak and bonnet? Clare Balding finds out.It's all down to Dorothy Wordsworth, the sister of poet, William. In her own right Dorothy was a writer and a pioneering walker. Just over 200 years ago she and her friend, Mary Barker, became the first women to both climb and write about Scafell Pike in the Lake District. This wouldn’t have been easy in their long dresses, cloaks and bonnets. To mark this achievement the artist Alex Jakob-Whitworth and some friends decided to follow in Dorothy’s footsteps. They...
2019-02-2824 min
iPM: We Start With Your StoriesRing out the oldiPM listeners take the programme around the country - in 2018 we’ve been wild swimming in Cumbria, up tower blocks in Manchester, in to outer space, and over the seas to remote islands. We’ve also delved into divorce proceedings, surrogate pregnancies, online dating and into all manner of family secrets, surprises and upsets.
Here are just a handful of some of the best from the year.
And Stephen Fry returns to read our Your News bulletin. Email your sentence of news to iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
2018-12-2823 minBetween the EarsThe In-Between LandThe magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson, which inspires her life and work and is the fertile backdrop to her real and imagined sound world. Welcome to her remote hill farm near Alston – near the highest market town in England – where Josephine looks after her sheep and writes her poetry. It’s her in-between land, a place between hearing and deafness, art and reality, home and you listening to the programme. It’s a challenging environment, too: in 2018 the ‘Beast from the East’ cut the local community off and emergency aid had to be airlifted in by Chinook h...
2018-12-1729 minMulti StoryEpisode 9: AnimalsThis week: fur and feathers. Featuring a woman chasing a deep pet desire - and how her story of buying two loves birds went viral. Plus meet the UK's first guide horse, as he learns to navigate his new job - and the shepherdess who has swapped city for country, following her love of animals. Finally, the canal board home to two humans and three dogs.Presented and produced by Becca BryersWith contributions from:
Anna Snowdon at BBC Tees
John Bowness at BBC Radio Cumbria
Jo Good and Elisa Kennedy at BBC Radio London
2018-12-0532 minPrivate PassionsKim MooreKim Moore won the prestigious Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize this year for her first poetry collection, "The Art of Falling", and is still only in her thirties. The judges described her prize-winning collection as "thrilling: language at its most irresistible and essential".
But however thrilling, poets need to make a living, and Kim Moore's day job has been as a trumpet teacher, in Cumbria where she lives. She's also conducted brass bands. In Private Passions, Kim Moore explores her musical passion for brass, from Handel's Messiah through to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, taking in...
2018-06-2435 min
Adam JohnsonInterview with Ady Pennock after Barrow 3-2 Eastleigh for BBC Radio CumbriaAdy Pennock speaking to me for BBC Radio Cumbria after Barrow recorded their 1st home win in over 5 months after Barrow beat Eastleigh 3-2
2018-04-1204 min
Adam JohnsonInterview with Grant Holt following Maidenhead 0-1 Barrow for BBC Radio CumbriaBarrow AFC player/coach Grant Holt speaking to me for BBC Radio Cumbria following Barrow's 1-0 win at Maidenhead
2018-03-1903 min
Adam JohnsonInterview with Nathan Waterston of Barrow AFC for BBC Radio Cumbria20 year old Barrovian Nathan Waterston speaks to BBC Radio Cumbria's Adam Johnson after completing his move to his hometown side
2018-03-1002 min
File on 4 InvestigatesThe Nuclear Option - Powering the Future and Cleaning Up the PastThere a risk we won't get new nuclear hooked up to the grid in time to back up renewable energy like wind power. There's an aim to generate 16GWe of new nuclear power by 2030.But experts doubt that's a realistic prospect, with Hinkley Point C years late, and questions over whether investors will risk capital on a proposed plant in Cumbria. And as plans for the future of nuclear power evolve, the legacy of the past also needs to be dealt with.The government's served notice on a £6billion contract to make safe a...
2017-10-3137 min
Belzebuub's Interviews on OBEs and DreamsAn interview with Belzebuub on BBC Radio Cumbria: Prepare to Enter the UnknownBelzebuub interviewed on BBC Radio Cumbria on August 7, 2006. “What happens after we pass away?” A discussion on NDEs and OBEs as a way to reach to the unknown and learn more about death.
2017-10-1306 min
Adam JohnsonMicky Moore Interview for BBC Radio CumbriaMicky Moore was appointed as permenant Manager of Barrow AFC on Wednesday September 20th, as part of my work experience with BBC Radio Cumbria I was asked to conduct the interview with him following his confirmation. Here is what Micky had to say to me
2017-09-2406 min
SundayEaster Sunday Special: Religion in Rural LifeEmily Buchanan presents a special Easter Sunday programme exploring the place of religion in rural communities.Emily visits a cattle auction in Yorkshire to examine the changing face of church ministry in the countryside.Rev Sarah Lunn, who is responsible for thirteen churches in Cumbria, explains how she's also helping with a shortage of GPs in the area.Bob Walker reports from the largely rural diocese of Lincoln, where three quarters of churches no longer have a regular weekly church service. The future of the thousands of listed rural Church of...
2017-04-2043 minWorkington Academy RadioStudents Broadcast Live on BBC Radio CumbriaA group of Key Stage 3 students were selected to work with BBC staff on the outdoor broadcast bus as part of BBC School Report 2017. Listen to the students talking live during broadcasts on BBC Radio Cumbria.
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2017-03-1615 minWorkington Academy RadioStudents Broadcast Live on BBC Radio CumbriaListen to the students talking live during broadcasts on BBC Radio Cumbria.
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2017-03-1600 min
Making History30/08/2016Helen Castor is joined by Professor Ted Vallance from the University of Roehampton and Dr Alex Woolf from the University of St Andrews.On the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, Dr Tom Charlton heads to St Paul's to learn how preparatory work by Sir Christopher Wren and the storage of printers manuscripts fuelled the inferno. Afterwards, the building lay in ruins and accusations flew freely - many suspecting the destruction of the historic church was the work of Catholics. After an outbreak of the plague and war with the Dutch, these were difficult times...
2016-08-3027 min
The Listening ProjectSunday OmnibusFi Glover introduces conversations about the loss of personal interactions at work, the crisis that faced Cumbria in 2001, and a three year old's view of good and evil
2016-07-2414 min
The Media ShowDame Joan Bakewell, EU debates, 24 - the 'north's national', City AM editorThe Archbishop of Canterbury is calling on the BBC to give religion the same prominence as politics, sport or drama. In a speech at the Sandford St Martin awards for religious broadcasting, The Most Rev Justin Welby will suggest that the Corporation's charter include protection for religious programming. Also at the ceremony, Dame Joan Bakewell will receive a special award in recognition of a 'commitment to religious and ethical broadcasting'. She joins Steve Hewlett in the studio.Nigel Farage and David Cameron faced "tough" questions on the EU referendum from a live studio audience last night for...
2016-06-0828 minThe Listening ProjectSunday Omnibus - Seeing People DifferentlyFi Glover introduces conversations from Cumbria, Lancashire and London, about the ways people view those who look or live differently from them.
2016-06-0513 minThe Listening ProjectOmnibus - Mothers and SonsFi Glover introduces conversations which reveal the close bond between mothers and sons, from Cumbria, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
2016-04-1713 minThe Listening ProjectOmnibus - Still AliveFi Glover introduces three conversations about the joys of still being alive, despite the odds, from Manchester, Cumbria and Wales.
2016-04-0313 minRamblingsLoughrigg Fell - Simon IngramClare Balding explores Loughrigg Fell, in Cumbria with the writer and journalist, Simon Ingram. With all the passion of a convert, he explains to Clare how he became bitten by the mountain climbing bug and why he wants to pass on his obsession to anyone who'll listen. In the space of a morning they are hit with torrential rain and howling winds but nothing deters them from their walk and Simon also explains how to stay safe while enjoying the mountains of Britain, no matter what the weather.
Producer Lucy Lunt.
2016-02-2524 minCosting the EarthBritain DisconnectedExtreme weather this winter has cut off large areas of Britain from the outside world. Does our Victorian infrastructure need an urgent update? With parts of Cumbria cut-off since early December, bridges down in Yorkshire, hundreds of ferry cancellations and the West Coast train line out of action until March it's increasingly clear that Britain can't cope with the strong winds and floods that are becoming the new norm.Should we embark on a new transport revolution, pouring concrete and laying steel to future-proof our roads and railways or should we accept a disconnected Britain?
2016-02-0928 minThe Listening ProjectSunday OmnibusFi Glover introduces conversations about competition, support, and understanding from Cumbria, Wales and Devon.
2015-11-2213 min
Open CountryOspreys in CumbriaCaz Graham goes in search of Cumbria's regular visiting ospreys at a selection of locations in the Lake District.Once extinct in England, Ospreys are now thriving in the UK. Breeding pairs are well established in Scotland and for several years they have become regular visitors to the Lake District.Caz travels to Foulshaw Moss, a nature reserve on the side of the busy A590, just south of Kendal, where a nesting pair have made their home and are raising three chicks. Whilst there she encounters a host of rare butterflies, dragonflies and moths, along...
2015-07-2224 minThe Listening ProjectSunday OmnibusFi Glover with conversations acknowledging the impact of self-harm, MS and arthritis while finding ways to deal with them, from Cumbria, Glasgow and London
2015-07-1913 minOpen CountryThe ancient sport of hound trailing in CumbriaHelen Mark visits Cumbria to watch the exciting and ancient sport of hound trailing. At the May Day races, she meets owners Wendy and Russell Dawson who treat their dogs like royalty. Cared for like athletes, they eat chicken and rabbit, and are bathed before a race. They are trained from pups to follow a scent, but it's a gamble if any will have the instincts of a champion.
Helen walks the trail, which is scented with aniseed and paraffin, and meets owner Margaret Baxter who explains why this traditional male sport is now dominated by women. The actual...
2015-05-1424 minThe Listening ProjectSunday OmnibusThe changes dementia imposes, the importance of colour, and a family gift for ceramics, all in conversations from Cumbria, Wales and Northern Ireland, introduced by Fi Glover
2015-05-0313 minThe Listening ProjectSunday OmnibusConversations about CDG1A, birth partners, and whether to marry or buy a camper van, from Cumbria, Wales and Northern Ireland, introduced by Fi Glover.
2015-04-1213 minPrivate PassionsSarah HallA husband and wife go for a walk in the woods; full of energy, the wife starts to walk on the tips of her toes - suddenly she takes off, across the forest. Startled, the husband calls out to her - but too late. She has transformed herself into a fox. If that unsettling story sounds familiar, it's because it won the BBC National Short story award in 2013; you might have heard Mrs Fox read on Radio 4. Its author, Sarah Hall, was already an accomplished novelist. She was born in Cumbria in 1974, and her first novel, Haweswater...
2015-03-2930 minThe Listening ProjectSunday OmnibusThe importance of posture, teenage romance becoming adult love, and which box to tick when you are gender-queer are discussed in conversations from Birmingham, Cumbria and London, introduced by Fi Glover.
2015-03-0813 minThe Listening ProjectSunday OmnibusThe death of a 15 year old, marriage and divorce, and how similar children with Down's Syndrome are to all children, discussed in conversations from Scotland, Devon and Cumbria introduced by Fi Glover
2015-02-2613 minOpen CountryNature Reserves in CumbriaCaz Graham visits two Nature Reserves in Cumbria to find out what happens on wildlife reserves in winter and meets the people working away to maintain these conservation areas.It's cold outside: many birds have flown south for the winter and the smaller mammals have gone into hibernation, but there is still life to be found on nature reserves, if only in the form of teams of conservationists maintaining the area for next year's visitors.Caz heads first to Foulshaw Moss, an expanse of peat bog that has been restored over the past decades to...
2014-12-1524 min
Feedback01/08/2014Listeners' views on the BBC's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continue to dominate our inbox. There are allegations of bias on both sides - the BBC coverage is accused of being too pro-Palestinian and too pro-Israeli. But how easy is it to accurately report the conflict on the ground from within Gaza? Roger Bolton speaks to the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet.Also this week, should history stay in the past? John Humphrys and Melvyn Bragg have gone head-to-head over the use of the present tense to describe historical events. Matthew Parris, who presents Radio 4's...
2014-08-0127 min
Saturday ReviewCalvary, Birdland, Jamaica Inn, Teju Cole, The First GeorgiansJohn Michael McDonagh's film Calvary reunites him with Brendan Gleeson after their success together on The Guard in 2011. This time it's about a priest who is told in confession that - in one week's time - he will be killed. It has an allstar Irish cast and was rewarded with prizes at The IFTAs. Does the mix of serious subject matter and offbeat humour work?Simon Stevens is probably best known for his stage adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -which is about to transfer to Broadway. His newest work Birdland opens...
2014-04-1241 minRamblingsRichmond Park, London, with Artist Nicola HicksIn this series of Ramblings Clare Balding is going on wildlife walks around the UK. Today she is in Richmond Park in London with internationally renowned sculptor and artist Nicola Hicks M.B.E. Nicola's work focuses on animals sculpted in straw and clay and drawn on huge sheets of paper. Dynamic and distinctive, it has gained wide critical and public acclaim. Her statues of a dog in Battersea Park and a giant beetle in Bristol have become local landmarks.Twenty years ago, Hicks grew tired of the pressures of the London art scene and...
2012-09-2024 min
The OlympicsMoscow Memories, Jessica Ennis and Tatiana ChernovaRivals special with Sebastian Coe revisiting the Moscow Olympics stadium and memories of the 1980 big contest by Steve Ovett's close friend and training partner, Matt Paterson, plus heptathlete rivals, Jessica Ennis and Tatiana Chernova; equestrian audio diaries from Ruth Edge in Cumbria and Piggy French in Leicestershire; South African swimmer in Paralympics and Olympic games, Natalie du Toit; the Belgian relay team train on Icelandic glaciers, and British table tennis champ, Darius Knight, tells us about the loyal support of his Mum, Dionne.
2012-01-1835 min
Midweek14/09/2011This week Libby Purves is joined by Carol Mellin, Steve Walker, Lucy Bailey and Molly Birnbaum. Carol Mellin is a sheep farmer and sheep dog trainer. She is competing in the 4th International Sheep Dog Society World Trials, taking place on the Lowther Estate, near Penrith in Cumbria. A total of 240 dogs and their handlers from twenty-three competing nations will take part. It will be shown on More4 this week.Steve Walker is Programme Director of the Ley Community in Oxfordshire, a successful drug rehabilitation centre, where he was treated in the late 1980s and...
2011-09-1441 minFeedback03/06/2011Is local radio in England worth its £110 million budget? Roger returns to his home county of Cumbria to speak to listeners there about why their local BBC radio station is one of the most popular in the country. And you wanted to hear more from Sharon Shoesmith, the former director of Haringey children's services. Maybe you would have if it was someone other than John Humphrys interviewing her on The Today programme.How many children listen to the radio in the middle of the night? None we hope, so why are so many of you b...
2011-06-0327 minOpen CountryFoot and Mouth - Ten Years OnWhen Foot and Mouth disease struck the UK in 2001, it caused a major crisis in agriculture and the British countryside. Hundreds and thousands of sheep and cattle were slaughtered in an attempt to halt the disease, footpaths were closed and the countryside effectively closed down. Cumbria was one of the worst affected areas of the country and many farmers found themselves at the very heart and soul of the crisis as mass livestock burials and plumes of black smoke from burning pyres destroyed their livestock and their lives. Ten years on, Helen Mark visits Cumbria to find...
2011-05-1424 min
All in the MindLife in and out of Asylums - Digital Memories - Work Capability TestJohn O'Donoghue's first admission to a psychiatric hospital came when he was 16 years old. He experienced the final days of the huge old asylums like Claybury and Friern Barnet well as ECT, homelessness and prison. He tells Claudia Hammond about how education turned his life around. He's a poet and now teaches creative writing. This year his memoir, Sectioned: A Life Interrupted, scooped the MIND Book of the Year prize. Digital Memories:
When family members die, many of us inherit photos and maybe even old love letters. But in the digital age, with huge amounts of data...
2010-11-3028 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996Kevin WhatelyThe castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is the actor Kevin Whately. Having appeared increasingly prominently in three of the most successful series in recent TV history - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Inspector Morse and Peak Practice - he's currently 'hot property' in the casting world.He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood in a remote part of Cumbria, his bold but inspired decision to chuck in accountancy in favour of the stage and his time busking at Oxford Circus to pay his way through drama school.[Taken from the original programme material...
1996-09-1533 min