Yorkshire has never been short of stories, but many of the most fascinating ones sit just beneath the surface.
Yorkshire: Stories from England’s Most Interesting County is a narrative history podcast exploring the people, places, and moments that shaped this county, and in many cases, shaped England itself.
This isn’t a timeline of dates or a list of famous names. Each episode focuses on a single story, a person, a place, or a moment in time, and unpacks the human experiences at its centre: belief, fear, loyalty, ambition, survival, and identity.
Across the series, you’ll hear stories such as:
A notorious Yorkshire woman who convinced communities she could cure illness and lift curses, with deadly consequences
A northern sporting institution pushed to the brink, and the people who refused to let it disappear
Coastal towns where shipwrecks, superstition, and storytelling bled into legend
Workers who smashed machines in the dead of night as industrial change tore communities apart
Battles, rebellions, industries, and cultural moments that left a lasting mark on Yorkshire and beyond
Some episodes focus on well-known moments. Others uncover stories rarely told. All are rooted in place, and in the people who lived through them.
Hosted by Terry Cook, Yorkshire: Stories from England’s Most Interesting County tells history through narrative, atmosphere, and storytelling, rather than lectures or timelines.
New episodes launching soon.
Subscribe now, and discover the stories that could only happen in Yorkshire.
Transcripts
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Yorkshire.
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It's not just a county.
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It's a battlefield, a stage, a forge.
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A place where England's biggest stories are written and sometimes rewritten.
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Like Towton.
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The bloodiest battle on English soil.
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A snowstorm, thousands dead, and a crown torn from one head to another, right here in the heart of Yorkshire.
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But it's not all kings and carnage.
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It's spotting giants, rising and falling and rising again.
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It's witches, Luddites and Sheffield steel and Sean Bean's bastard.
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It's Whitby, too, a quiet coastal town until a shipwreck, a tall, pale stranger and a writer named Bram Stalker turned it into something darker.
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A place where legends refused to die.
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From the mills that powered an empire, to the rebels who smashed machines in the dead of night, to the actors, athletes, workers, warriors and everyday people who shape this fine county and the world far beyond it.
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I'm Terry Cook, and this is Yorkshire Stories from England's Most Interesting county.
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A series uncovering the battles, the scandals, the heroes, the villains and the moments that shaped it.
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Subscribe now and hear the stories that could only happen right here in Yorkshire.
