Dialect pt.8: Kit Calvert, 'Wily old bird'

Series Two special guest Rob Ward remembers Kit Calvert.  He adds ‘warts and all’ to our understanding of the man regarded as the ‘Complete Dalesman’.  After Rob, a Kit Calvert recording gifted to the museum in 2019 is published for the first time.  It is the story of how he came to faith through the travails of a milk cow. Published on Wed 1 November 2023.

Om Podcasten

Voices From The Dales  is currently in Series Three, 'Swaledale Farmer'.  It's a mix of fresh interviews and clips from the Dales Countryside Museum's oral history archive.  All episodes are 15 minutes and presented by Andrew Fagg from Hawes.