Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of Yorkshire Audiobook (Free)
Summary:
I’ll define the fact of this sprawling place as best I can. I’ll start here, with this town, and radiate out such as a ripple inside a fish pond. I don’t need to go to the obvious areas, either; I wish to be like a bus drivers on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously dropped, turning up where I shouldn’t. I’m going to confirm or deny the clichés, keeping them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire folks are limited. Yorkshire folks are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a about Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of this is of Yorkshire Yorkshire pudding before every food. Yorkshire people solder a t’ before each word they use…
If there were any such thing as a specialist Yorkshireman, Ian McMillan would be it. He’s regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, and southerners comment archly on his ‘fruity Yorkshire brogue’. But he continues to be keeping a key. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotland, producing him, as he places it, only ‘fifty percent tyke’. So Ian is definitely worried; is usually he Yorkshire more than enough?
To attempt to determine what this implies Ian embarks on a journey round the county, starting in the village has lived in his life time. With contributions from your Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train safeguard, Mad Geoff the barber and four Saddleworth council employees looking for a mattress, Ian attempts to find what lies at the heart of Britain’s most distinctive state and its own people, aswell as learning whether the Yorkshire Pudding is certainly worthy of learning to be a UNESCO Intangible History Site, if Harrogate is really, really, in Yorkshire and, obviously, who knocks in the knocker up?
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