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In Search of the Wantley Dragon
Made for 4 Extra. Daljit Nagra introduces In Search of the Wantley Dragon presented by Ian McMillan at Barnsley train station. From August 2009.
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s radio poetry archive with 'In Search of the Wantley Dragon' - about the the bawdy 17th-century comic poem.
Starting at Barnsley train station, presenter and poet Ian McMillan uncovers long-forgotten violent disputes, a knight clad in locally-made armour, pantomimes, operettas and the eerily quiet dragon's den.
Ian meets the dragon's descendants and learns that, in its day, this Yorkshire-based story was as famous as that of Robin Hood.
Producer: Russell Crewe.
First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in 2009.
Last on
Mon 25 Feb 2019
05:00
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
Broadcasts
- Sun 24 Feb 2019 17:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 25 Feb 2019 05:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra