My podcast Hit the North has recently reached the end of its inaugural series. It is available via most of the mainstream podcast platforms and on YouTube.

Here are the remaining episodes with embedded YouTube videos that have been posted since my initial post about it.

#005: RACHEL JACKSON (Scotland)

“I was just like, what the Hell? like aren’t you just going to watch people kick a ball about?”

#006: LAURA MINOR (West Midlands; has lived in North West and Yorkshire and Humberside)

“I hate the generalisation that Northerners are straight-talking, no-nonsense super-friendly people and that Southerners are the opposite“

#007: PETER STREET (North West)

“I think bluntness carries us through”

#008: MARIAM REZAEI (North East)

“It means saying ‘thanks very much’, when you get off the bus. Being Northern, it’s a fantastic thing and it means having an alliance with Scotland”

#009: SERIES 1 SUM-UP

“a frankly kaleidoscopic offering”

“Go North, get back, my friend / And see the world before it ends” [apologies for this last line being cut off in the episode as broadcast!]

If you prefer to access them all in one combined playlist, here that is!

Here too is a link to the Hit the North musical playlist, containing all (well, most of!) the songs featured in the series, alongside exclusive IT’S ONLY A NORTHERN SONG OF THE WEEK selections shared to Hit the North’s Facebook group. If you want to join that group, please do so here.

It has been an absolute blast, and a delight, so far to talk to these fine people; enjoy the podcast! Please spread the word, give it five-star ratings (or don’t bother to rate at all if you don’t like it!), or indeed get in touch to suggest a guest or correspond about any Northern places or stories.
Email: HitTheNorthNE41@proton.me

Looking forward to Series 2!