Dialect pt.3: Hannah Metcalfe, Taylor Dinsdale

After a noisy introduction at Gayle Bridge, this episode opens with a little more of Rev James Alderson, including a short study of his 1980 Dales dialect primer. Presenter Andrew Fagg then stands by the black-painted railings of Foss Head Farm house in the village of Gayle to cue in a 1977 recording of the late Hannah Metcalfe (nee Alderson). The Metcalfe name and family is described. The late Taylor Dinsdale, interviewed by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby, comes next. ...