The Dales Diary [28/08/2003]
From the collection of
Wild North [25/10/1998]
- Guisborough
- 1998-10-25
The Dales Diary [28/08/2003] (Dales Diary)
Harry Potter fever makes one couple glad they kept up a 200-year family tradition. But what would mother make of it?
The besom is a type of broom which is traditionally made from hazel wood and birch twigs, although in the Yorkshire Dales they are often made using dried heather. Brooms of this type have a limited working life as the twigs degrade with use and gradually fall out of their binding. Modern, long-lasting, machine-made brooms might have driven the besom to extinction, had it not been for a literary craze at the turn of the millennium. The publications of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels tell the story of a boy-wizard who can fly on besoms, and the hundreds of millions of fans of the books drove a world-wide demand for these archaic cleaning tools as decorative accessories.
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Wildlife & Nature in the North East
A cornucopia of wild delights in this series of nature programmes from the North East.
Made by filmmaker and agricultural journalist Charles Boden, these films sought to capture the best of wildlife projects in the region. However, they captured so much more, from a controversial visitor attraction that was later closed down by the authorities, to the birth of the first new osprey colony in England. This series is a time capsule of timeless things.
11 videos in this collection
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Wild North [25/10/1998]
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Wild North [01/11/1998]
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Wild North [22/02/2000]
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Wild North [29/02/2000]
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Wild North [30/01/2001]
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Wild North [06/02/2001]
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Wild North [24/03/2002]
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Wild North [07/04/2002]
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Wild North [02/02/2003]
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Wild North [02/03/2003]
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