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Hidden West Yorkshire

Explore fascinating stories from West Yorkshire.

Radio Leeds,79 episodes

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For Sale: The wood with a ballroom and waterfall
Goit Stock Wood near Bingley known locally as the "hidden valley".
23 Jul 2025,4 mins
The Leeds inventor who gave us the Spirograph
From bike springs to NATO tech to Spirograph: Denys Fisher's inventive journey.
16 Jul 2025,6 mins
Pontefract's most famous export
It's 50 times sweeter than sugar, but why is Pontefract so synonymous with liquorice?
09 Jul 2025,5 mins
The singing hermit of Ilkley Moor
Job Senior’s voice and walls still echo across Ilkley Moor, 200 years on.
02 Jul 2025,5 mins
The weapons of war on display in Leeds
A new exhibition at the Royal Armouries Museum focuses on the weapons used in WW2.
27 Jun 2025,7 mins
Wakefield's incredible hidden F1 car collection
Cars feature from from Formula 1 World Champions Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher.
13 Jun 2025,4 mins
The Rugby League star who became a forensic genius
James Deighton speaks to Chris Westwood about former Hunslet winger Graham Goodman.
01 Jun 2025,3 mins
A decade of Morris dancing at Ossett Beercart
Sam Nixon chats to festival organiser Steve Ollerton about Ossett Beercart.
28 May 2025,3 mins
The Huddersfield chapel at risk of being lost
Jess Bayley finds out about the Edgerton cemetery chapel which is falling into decay.
22 May 2025,3 mins
The origin of Bradford's hidden tramway
Gayle Lofthouse chats to John Pitcher about the history of Shipley Glen Tramway.
16 May 2025,3 mins
Asda at 60: The supermarket giant started in Leeds
Jess Bayley finds out how a group of farmers started a supermarket chain.
13 May 2025,3 mins
The Witches of Eagle Crag and other spooky tales
9 folklore stories have been used to create a treasure hunt in Todmorden.
07 May 2025,5 mins
Inside a 700 year old abandoned Leeds castle
There is a 14th Century castle nestled within a forest on the Harewood Estate.
30 Apr 2025,7 mins
Leeds Uni uncover the oldest-known book on cheese
The 16th century manuscript depicts the earliest uses of cheese.
23 Apr 2025,4 mins
The town that tried to capture 'eternal spring'
Marsden hold an annual cuckoo festival – but do you know the origin of the story?
16 Apr 2025,4 mins
How tragedy struck a West Yorkshire circus
Rare, 19th-century circus posters are revealed in Wakefield.
08 Apr 2025,4 mins
Rudyard Kipling story inspired by Wakefield man
Chris Green talks about Frederick Wilson from Wakefield.
02 Apr 2025,6 mins
Ilkley's mysterious Roman tribeswoman
How did a tribeswoman from Shropshire end up in West Yorkshire?
26 Mar 2025,5 mins
The 700 year old mill hoping to exist off-grid
The owners of a Hebden Bridge mill are trying to raise funds to pay for repairs.
19 Mar 2025,4 mins
The largest stone-ground flour mill in the world
Dave Weatherson from Queen’s Mill in Castleford talks to Gayle Lofthouse.
12 Mar 2025,5 mins
The Leeds building with sheep on the roof
Martin Hamilton, director of Leeds Civic Trust, on the varied history of Temple Works.
05 Mar 2025,5 mins
The history of Tetley's in Leeds
The iconic Leeds brewery was founded in 1822 by Joshua Tetley in Hunslet.
26 Feb 2025,5 mins
Bretton: From pleasure grounds to sculpture park
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park's Mike Chesman on the history and future of Bretton Park.
19 Feb 2025,5 mins
How the Slaithwaite moonrakers fooled the police
Kath Shackleton from the Moonraking Festival explains the history of the event.
05 Feb 2025,4 mins
The forgotten history of Jewish refugees in Ilkley
Local historian Nigel Grizzard explains how important Loxleigh House in Ilkley was.
30 Jan 2025,4 mins
Robin Hood’s Penny Stone on a Yorkshire moor
John Billingsley from the Folklore Centre, Todmorden explains its significance.
22 Jan 2025,5 mins
Introducing... Hidden Bradford
Exploring history, legends and tales from Bradford UK City of Culture 2025.
09 Jan 2025,4 mins
The Halifax Slasher
In 1938, Halifax police investigated a series of attacks, but not all was as it seemed.
18 Dec 2024,4 mins
Dewsbury's 'Devil's Knell': A Christmas Tradition
Cara Thorpe explores why this Christmas tradition started with a murder.
15 Dec 2024,4 mins
The Halifax story of deceit, murder and millions
Author Steve Hartley on the story of the Cragg Vale coiners.
10 Dec 2024,5 mins