North East Natters: Ishy Din on Playwriting, the North East, and ‘Champion'
Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Ishy Din joins us to talk about his latest play, Champion, inspired by Muhammad Ali’s 1977 visit to South Shields. Ishy also shares some insights into his wid...
28 Feb 202550min
Ep 2: The Bombardment of the Hartlepools
We're turning back the clock to December 1914, examining a moment when the Great War quite literally hit home for Britain. Indeed, the bombardment of the Hartlepools was not just significant for the p...
31 Jan 20251h 29min
Ep 1: The Cramlington Train Wreckers
In our first (official) episode, we travel back to 1926, a year dominated by industrial unrest and political discord. Like the Flying Scotsman, our destination is Cramlington. Unlike the Flying Scotsm...
3 Des 20241h 32min
North East Natters: Playwright Ed Waugh & Director Russell Floyd on 'The Cramlington Train Wreckers'
We have the pleasure of chatting with both Ed Waugh, the writer of 'The Cramlington Train Wreckers', and Russell Floyd, the play's director. Focused on the 1926 derailment of the Flying Scotsman by st...
1 Nov 202432min
North East Ethnonyms Part 6: Conclusion
Well, this it it, we've reached the end of our ethnonymic/demonymic/whatevernymic journey. In this sixth and final part of our series, we identify some of the common trends that link the topics discus...
8 Aug 202433min
North East Ethnonyms Part 5: Cold off the Press
In this fifth part of the North East Ethnonyms series, Glen and Ben scour the British Newspaper Archive in search of pertinent materials. In a segment that has been christened 'Cold off the Press' (wo...
4 Aug 202449min
North East Ethnonyms Part 4: What is a Smoggie?
We head on down the A1 (or the A19?) as we turn our attention to our final ethnonym of focus: Smoggie. In their quest to define Smoggie, Glen and Ben scrutinise English counties, consult Hansard, and ...
19 Jul 202453min
North East Ethnonyms Part 3: What Is a Mackem?
In Part 3 of our exploration of the numerous nicknames for native northeasterners, we head on over to Wearside to meet the Mackems. As Glen and Ben take a saunter through the saga of this Sunderland-c...
5 Jul 20241h 5min
