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- "Nowhere are the traditions of Christmas kept up with such splendour as in Yorkshire". That's what a visitor to the county wrote in 1812. To find out how true it is today, Mike Harding sets out to explore the many and varied ways Christmas is still celebrated across the three Ridings. En route he enjoys some living Yorkshire traditions with the Village Carollers from the South Pennines, Knaresborough Mummers, Grenoside Sword Dancers, Leyburn Ladies Choir, Hawes Silver Prize Band and East Witton Male Voice Choir. In York he learns how today's Christmas traditions were influenced by the Pagan festivities of the distant past; in Malton, how the town inspired Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, and in Haworth, how the Brontës spent Christmas, while on the East Coast he discovers that turkeys were first introduced into Britain by a Yorkshireman from Bridlington. Featuring: Jim Eldon, Hawes Silver Prize Band, East Witton Male Voice Choir, Leyburn Ladies Choir, Village Carols from the Black Bull, Ecclesfield, Jeremy Blundell, The Ebor Singers, The Very Reverend Keith Jones, Dean of York, Brian Oxberry and Selina Scott (Charles Dickens Society, Malton), Dr. Juliet Barker, Richard Marriott, James Mackenzie (Pipe and Glass, South Dalton), Knaresborough Mummers, Chas Marshall, Grenoside Sword Dancers, Joe Dunn, Thorpe Hesley Junior School Sword Dance team, Coope, Boyes and Simpson, Georgina Boyes and the children of Westfield Primary School, Cottingham
- Coming Home tells the story of farmer Andie, who is struggling to tell her seven year old son Archie, that his mummy isn't coming home. When she does, he disappears and she must find him before it's too late.
- This week, Alexandra Marshall talks with Dr Michael de Percy about the current state of renewable energy policy, the Minister for Energy and Climate Change and his lack of an energy Plan B, and nuclear energy as a green alternative to wind farms, solar factories, and the thousands of kilometres of poles and wires needed to deliver wind and solar energy to the grid.
- Wool continues to make a strong recovery and as the industry prepares to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of its first export, demand for Australian merino is on the upswing. At the recent Sydney fashion week, wool and wool blends were a big talking point and with international demand growing so too are prices for Australian producers.
- Returning to Sunderland, Mary Ann discovers that James Robinson has had a change of heart over his relationship with her. Furious, she sets out to get rid of the impediments to their potential marriage - the children.