A sweeping new biography by Times journalist Rick Broadbent takes on a vast subject – Yorkshire. He talks to Chris Burn about his very personal journey into what makes God’s Own Country unique.
"It sounds a bit grandiose but in my head I was trying to do something a bit Stuart Maconie and Bill Bryson rather than an encyclopedia. I didn't want to write a dry history but hopefully reexamine the county with a bit of wit."
TOPSHOT - Musicians from Meltham and Meltham Mills band prepare to compete in the Yorkshire Brass Band Championships in the Town Hall in Huddersfield, northern England on March 4, 2023. - Over fifty bands, across 5 grading sections, will compete for the honour of representing Yorkshire at the finals of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain - the largest brass band competition series in the World.
One chapter of the book, entitled ‘Stereotykes’, explores some of the fun that frequently gets poked at the county – from Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen sketch and the increasingly ludicrous bragging of well to-do characters about their supposedly impoverished upbringings to Hale and Pace’s Yorkshire Airlines skit where a plane of holidaymakers takes off fromand then lands straight back there on the grounds that ‘if it’s outside Yorkshire, it’s not worth it’.
The book wryly notes that while few places are as picked on, “Yorkshire suffers for the same reason it thrives; it really does love itself”. Broadbent says he was keen to explore stereotypes about the region and why they have been so persistent over the centuries.
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