From Our Home Correspondent 19/05/2019
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Martin Vennard in Saltburn reveals how surfing has improbably helped revive the fortunes of the once-proud Victorian resort on Tees-side; while Travis Elborough taps a surf music beat in Worthing where a 50 year-old musical phenomenon is garnering new fans. Baby boomer Martin Gurdon, recently bereaved in late middle-age, explains how saying his final goodbye to an elderly parent was both something greater longevity had prepared him for and yet - at least initially - still left him disoriented. Emma Levine in Barnsley reports on how a strange football match saw differing contemporary Yorkshire identities on display off the pitch. And Athar Ahmad prepares to go on a solitary spiritual quest in the final days of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Producer: Simon Coates
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent from BBC Radio Fall. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Michelle Hussein. |
| 0:10.0 | This time, one of our correspondence is about to embark on a spiritual retreat to mark the last 10 days of Ramadan and reveals what it gives him. |
| 0:20.0 | Another reflects on the right of passage that is the loss of a parent and how it is just as intense |
| 0:26.1 | however long you have had together. And we're on a windy pitch to meet the passionate supporters of Yorkshire and Somaliland, the football clubs. |
| 0:36.7 | But we begin on a firmly summary note with two surfing related tales from opposite ends of England. |
| 0:43.4 | On teaside it's been part of the economic revival of Saltburn |
| 0:47.8 | a popular resort in Victorian times and now enjoying a stream of visitors all year round. |
| 0:54.0 | As Martin Bernard explains, there's a definite knack to riding the waves, |
| 0:58.0 | but once acquired, it can keep bringing people back. |
| 1:02.0 | For the umpteenth time that afternoon |
| 1:06.0 | I clamber on the board and try to get up onto my knees. |
| 1:10.0 | For the umpteenth time I fail and tumble into the North Sea. My 10 year old son is |
| 1:16.0 | managing to stand up on his board and ride the waves to the shore. The |
| 1:20.6 | members of Saltburn Junior Surf Club are doing the same. |
| 1:25.0 | Further out to sea to the north, the wind turbines near the mouth of the River Tees are standing |
| 1:30.7 | bolt upright. In my defense, it's the first time I've surfed or rather tried to. |
| 1:38.0 | When I was growing up nearby in the 1970s and 80s surfing was nothing like as popular locally as it is today. |
| 1:46.0 | The sea temperature is about 7 degrees Celsius, but my wetsuit makes it bearable, just. |
| 1:53.5 | When our hour is up, we walk back across the sandy beach to the Saltburn Surf School, where |
| 1:58.8 | we hired the equipment, 13 pounds each for a board, |
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