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Grim Up North

grimupnorththepodcast

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Frequency: 1 episode/69d. Total Eps: 16

A Podcast about the North, from the North.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
28/05/2025
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https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/whats-on-and-tickets/betty-a-sort-of-musical
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Series Three Episode Two - The Haunted North

Episode 2

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 • Duration 01:02:15

With thanks toJoanna Walpole of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena – ASSAP and Dr Sam George Associate Professor in Research at the University of Hertfordshire and convenor of the Open Graves, Open Minds research project for their generosity of spirit and their time. The read quote is from Bram Stoker's Dracula with thanks to Tom Scott for reading it.

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Series Three Episode One - Walking the North - Grasmere

Episode 1

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 • Duration 51:29

We have now established the tradition of beginning each series with a walking episode. The first was around the city of Sheffield and our second is around Grasmere in the Lake District. Made famous by the Lakeland poets and especially William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy who lived in Dove Cottage, Grasmere town sits next to the lake of the same name. We began at the cottage and the wonderful museum dedicated to the Wordsworths and then walked right around the lake. We encountered other walkers and then finished off in the Churchyard where the Wordsworth's are buried. We stayed the night in the wonderful Traveler's Rest on the edge of the town. The next morning we headed up towards Easdale and the path up to the Tarn looking over Sour Milk Gill. Thanks to all the people we encountered on the walk for their time and obvious love of the Lakes. We would recommend Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, any version of the Prelude by William Wordsworth and Jonathan Bates excellent biography Radical Wordsworth. For Coleridge's Frost At Midnight click https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43986/frost-at-midnight

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Episode Six - Acting the North

Episode 6

Friday, November 11, 2022 • Duration 01:07:33

The opening jingle in order contains Coronation Street - Life on Mars - Dinner Ladies - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - The Royal Family - The Last of the Summer Wine - Shameless - Peter Kay's Car Share and Kes. With thanks to Steve Waters https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/steve-waters for all his time and insights. Thanks too to Eva Scott. This is a link to her next production. https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/whats-on-and-tickets/betty-a-sort-of-musical.

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Episode Five | Angels of the North

Episode 5

Monday, October 10, 2022 • Duration 59:09

With many thanks to Julie Milne, Chief Curator of the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne for her time and most enjoyable tour of the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition. You can see them until 3rd December at https://laingartgallery.org.uk/whats-on/lindisfarne-gospels Also thanks to all the unsuspecting souls we shoved a microphone visiting the Angel of the North.

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Episode Four : Getting Carter - Noir from the North

Episode 4

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 • Duration 01:18:24

With thanks to the makers of Get Carter. Matt and Adrian would also like to say a huge thank you to A. A. Dhand and Lesley McEvoy, both great crime writers for a fantastic conversation about Northern Noir. You can find their books on all good online booksellers and in all good bookshops. Credit also to the Red Riding Trilogy and to the wonderful Happy Valley that is about to go into a third season. You can comment and enter the conversation with Matt and Adrian at grimupnorththepodcast@gmail.com or on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1630818283956087

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Episode Three | The Defeated North?

Episode 3

Tuesday, August 16, 2022 • Duration 01:17:56

Many thanks to Chris Peace and Kate Flannery - in the interview Kate's is the first voice you hear, followed by Chris. They are from the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign https://otjc.org.uk We wish them well in all their work.

Thanks also to Lesley Boulton for taking us back to Orgreave and telling us the story of that day.

We also want to acknowledge John Harris who took the photo we discussed. Here is a link to a photographic essay about the strike and the day. The Miners Strike - A Photo Essay

Gratitude to Harry Paterson for his interview with us. His book Look Back in Anger is widely available. His website is worth a good look. https://harrypaterson.com

Thanks as always to the KLF for Grim Up North, and to Billy Bragg for such a great rendition of Joe Hill's There is Power in a Union.

You can comment, give us feedback, share your own stories with us at grimupnorththepodcast@gmail.com or visit us on our facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1630818283956087

Matt's blog can be read at https://mattcarr.substack.com

Adrian's Website is www.adriangrscott.com

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Episode Two - The North - How Did It Get So Grim?

Episode 2

Monday, July 11, 2022 • Duration 01:12:40

To contact Matt and Adrian with thoughts comments and your own 'not so grim up north' moments write to grimupnorththepodcast@gmail.com

The books mentioned are Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood, English Journey by J B Priestley, and The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell.

Special thanks to Richard Blair, George Orwell's son for giving us an interview and being so kind with his time. Thanks also to Benedict Cooper from the Orwell Society for helping us to set up the interview. https://orwellsociety.com

Here are some links to the clips we used

Walter Greenwood https://waltergreenwoodnotjustloveonthedole.com/walter-greenwood-the-kersal-flats-co-uk-interview-1973/?fbclid=IwAR0gYa0vtR-lmX7P-qHW5RwYWQSB0JZFOdcu5OjFNGbkLRFZYSXbRn4-BhQ

J B Priestly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkloVLeAtiY

The Film of Love on the Dole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBHHOm8CbYg

Here is a link tot he Bill Brandt photograph Coal Searcher Going Home to Jarrow 1937 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/53508

With thanks again to the KLF for the theme music. https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dYrdRlNZSKaVxYg5IrvCH/discography/all?pageUri=spotify:album:1kJY7mRPwF5eJOf8DMZdwa

Episode One - True North

Episode 1

Sunday, June 12, 2022 • Duration 01:06:58

If you want to join our conversation about the North you can email us at grimupnorththepodcast@gmail.com Brian Groom's book- Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day is published by Harper North. With many thanks to the band The KLF for allowing us to use their track It's Grim Up North as our opening jingle and in the podcast. Also thanks to all the people we spoke to on the streets of Sheffield for their kind participation. Matt Carr writes a great blog called Matt Carr's Infernal Machine at https://mattcarr.substack.com Adrian Scott has his own podcast and that and his other works can be found at www.adriangrscott.com

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Series Two Episode Seven - Singing the North

Episode 13

Thursday, June 20, 2024 • Duration 57:31

With huge thanks to Mike Jones - former songwriter with the 80s band Latin Quarter. Programme director of an MA in Music Industry Studies. He also contributes to the MA in the Beatles: Music Industry and Heritage. In 2017 wrote, directed and produced the concert 'George Harrison and Indian Music’ which was performed at Liverpool Philharmonic. The poem Four Northern Boys Coming At You that Adrian reads will be part of his next collection - working title Grim Up North?! This is the last episode of series two - we will back in the autumn. Please send us any comments on this or the last series and please send ideas for series three to grimupnorththepodcast@gmail.com We are really happy to hear your ideas and want to do some more jaunts across the North.

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Series Two Episode Six - Farming the North

Episode 12

Monday, May 13, 2024 • Duration 56:46

The BFI film - The Dale that Died mentioned in this episode can be found at https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-dale-that-died-1975-online

With thanks to Matt Gibson (Joe Gibson's Grandson) for a great impromptu interview on his farm in Grisdale. Thanks also Paul Renison from Renwick for a great interview and a nice cup of tea in his Farmhouse kitchen.

The final song is by Show of Hands and is called Country Life from the album of the same name. https://open.spotify.com/album/5KbyPGFAqyZC2gqJaSmj4I

The cover image for this episode is Joe Gibson, from the film, riding bareback on his horse and rounding up his sheep with his dogs.

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