Highlights from The Yorkshire Post features team
Laura Reid looks at some of the long-reads produced by the features team this week, from a look at what is believed to be the oldest document in the whole of Yorkshire to family show Hey Duggee Live.
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00:00 Hello, I'm Laura Reid, the Assistant Features Editor at the Yorkshire Post.
00:04 So I just wanted to come on and talk you through some of the features
00:09 that we've run online and in print this week. In case you missed them, there's
00:13 plenty of long reads to be delving into and we've of course got our Yorkshire
00:18 Post magazine out this Saturday as well as part of our weekend edition. So
00:25 looking back to the start of the week, we spoke to Belinda Black who was just
00:29 17 when she started working as a nursing assistant at a large psychiatric
00:35 hospital in her hometown in the north of England. Her book, A Place for Lost Souls,
00:40 offers insight into what it was like inside secure mental health hospitals. We
00:46 also looked at the medieval magnified exhibition currently on display by the
00:51 West Yorkshire Archive Service. It's got some really fascinating offerings
00:55 including what is believed to be the oldest document in the whole of
00:59 Yorkshire, the Fountains Abbey Charter. We heard from the people behind the Arts
01:05 Charities Space too. They've run it for 20 years but now say that it's time to
01:10 move on. And we also spoke to a Leeds professor about the remarkable work that
01:15 he and researchers are doing to treat otherwise incurable cancers. A former
01:21 forensic pathologist who specialised in the suspicious deaths of babies told us
01:26 how his experiences at work and growing up as a child in York have inspired his
01:31 latest book. And we talked to an inspirational Yorkshire man with
01:36 Treacher Collins syndrome on how he found happiness by embracing his facial
01:40 differences and how he's now supporting families across the world. We looked at
01:46 how a South Yorkshire project is engaging children with chamber music
01:49 composition and our arts and culture content this week included a look at the
01:54 Hey Dougie Live show at Leeds Grand Theatre which will no doubt be of
01:58 interest to families. We've also recently launched our Yorkshire Lifestyle
02:04 newsletter so do consider signing up to that if you'd like to hear more about
02:09 the highlights from the features team. So in there we include everything from
02:13 our theatre and restaurant reviews to our magazine stories, arts and culture
02:17 content, fashion, property, health and so much more. Thank you.