The Yorkshire Post features highlights this week

Assistant Features Editor Laura Reid looks back at a week in features at The Yorkshire Post.

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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 week, in

00:09 case you've missed them. There's lots of long reads to be going at, and we've of course

00:14 got our Yorkshire Post magazine published on Saturday as well as part of our weekend

00:19 edition. At the start of the week we ran an interview with Beverley's Callum Scott on

00:25 how he went from Britain's Got Talent to partnering with Take That. We've also heard from Steve

00:31 Coogan about playing Jimmy Savile in new harrowing drama The Reckoning. We spoke to author and

00:39 former Doncaster Rovers media consultant Peter Tuffery. Like many young men in the 1960s,

00:46 his heroes were guitar players and decades on he's spoken to some of them for his latest

00:51 book. Rishwith author Eric Brogue told us about his new book on Islamic architecture,

00:58 which explores both famous masterpieces and lesser known gems. And we heard from Fiona

01:04 Allen, who made her name with Smack the Pony, but he's now embarking on her first stand-up

01:10 tour of the UK. She told us about her life and the two Michael Parkinson's. Finally,

01:17 in arts and culture, Home Firth born comedian Kieran Hodgson spoke to us as he headed to

01:22 Yorkshire this week on his UK tour. And we also looked ahead as Ailey 2 contemporary

01:28 dance company head to Bradford and Hull later this month. We've also got our weekly Yorkshire

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01:57 food and drink, fashion, property and loads more. Thanks.

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