Austin Mitchell's Yorkshire Humour
A YORKSHIREMAN born and bred, Austin Mitchell knows more than a thing or two about the county's particular brand of humour. Hear some choice examples, straight from the source.
MP for Grimsby since 1977, but still fondly remembered as a presenter of Yorkshire TV's Calendar programme alongside the late Richard Whiteley, Austin Mitchell is a renowned raconteur and wit.
In this programme, recorded at the 2009 Ilkley Literature Festival, he is in conversation with the Yorkshire Post's Digital Editor David Behrens, and in performance at the King's Hall, Ilkley.
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Austin Mitchell's Grand Book of Yorkshire Humour contains 'Guaranteed fully organic' Yorkshire humour compiled by Austin Mitchell, media personality and politician, as consolation for the demise of Old Labour, flat 'ats and vowels to match.
In Austin's words: "No other county, country or even continent has so much wit and wisdom as is contained in traditional Yorkshire humour.
"The county's jokes come out of Yorkshire's native heath and hill, mine and mill, evolved not made. They revolve round the absolute basics of death, disease, defeats at cricket, diarrhoea, debt, depression and the dole."
Published by Great Northern Books at 7.99. ISBN: 1905080646.
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