The Yorkshire Post features highlights this week

Assistant Features Editor Laura Reid looks back at a week in features at The Yorkshire Post, including interviews with Richard Hawley and Peter Levy.

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00:00 Hi I'm Laura Reid, the Deputy Features Editor at the Yorkshire Post. I've just come on to

00:05 talk you through some of the features that we've run online and in print this

00:08 week in case you've missed them. Lots of long reads to be going at over the

00:13 weekend and we've of course got our Yorkshire Post magazine as well, published

00:16 on Saturday as part of our weekend edition with lots more features to come

00:20 in there as well. So this week we spoke to BBC Look North presenter Peter

00:27 Levy as he started to present the lunchtime news again after 21 years. He

00:32 told us about his beloved Hull, the Selby Rail disaster and what it was

00:36 like to work in the newsroom through the COVID pandemic. We also spoke to a

00:42 Yorkshire woman who lives with congenital heart disease and is now

00:46 volunteering to help others and we heard from scientist and author Sarah

00:50 Watkinson on her climate themed novel and the vital role that fungi plays in

00:55 the Yorkshire Dales. Author and former diplomat Jean Harrod told us about how

01:00 the North Yorkshire legend of Kitty Garthway has been the inspiration for

01:03 her latest book and we heard how a California author discovered and was

01:08 inspired by the fact that his ancestors were linked to tragedy in Yorkshire's

01:12 coalfields. Sheffield singer Richard Harley told us about how music kept him

01:17 on the straight and narrow whilst a former drug dealer from Rotherham spoke

01:21 to us about how he turned his back on crime and is now helping other people to

01:26 address trauma and criminality. In Arts and Culture we looked at Bradford

01:31 Theatre Company Commonwealth's latest show Fast, Fast, Slow and Michael Frayn's

01:37 famous Fast Noises Off which is in Yorkshire this month. If you want to

01:43 keep up to date with all the latest content from the features team we send

01:46 out a weekly newsletter, the Yorkshire Lifestyle newsletter, which you can

01:51 subscribe to and that's got all our features from the print editions that

01:58 week as well as our magazine stories with food and drink content, fashion,

02:05 property, arts and culture and lots more there. Thanks!