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Saddleworth

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Sep 26, 2026

Nick AbbottHOST
20:59
In a nutshell.
Nick AbbottHOST
21:03
Gail in Saddleworth says, can you do us a favour, please? Me and our Steve.
Nick AbbottHOST
21:07
I'm going to Glasgow next Wednesday for a bit of a look around.
Nick AbbottHOST
21:10
I was wondering if you can ensure that it is not raining, please, because when it rains, my hair goes all frizzy and Steve comes unstuck and falls off.
Caroline CopelandGUEST
38:14
I'm going to suggest a classic brass banding tune for you, which is Knights Templar by George Allen.
Caroline CopelandGUEST
38:25
And this particular brass banding piece holds a particular part of my heart because there's something called, I don't know if you've ever heard of the Wick Friday marches at all up in Saddleworth.
SteveHOST
38:42
Ah, right.
SteveHOST
38:42
This
Caroline CopelandGUEST
38:43
is right up your street.
Caroline CopelandGUEST
38:44
So every Whip Friday, so however many weeks after Easter that is, around a hundred bands, mostly from the UK, but we get people from Canada and Norway, New Zealand, all over the show, descend on the villages of Saddleworth and they all pile on to coaches and they drive around and you have to, each of the villages has a competition.
Caroline CopelandGUEST
39:07
And you have to announce your arrival by marching down the road, playing a particular tune.
Caroline CopelandGUEST
39:14
We in recent years have gone for pop songs like Backstreet Boys or I think we did Under the Sea by Little Mermaid one year.
speaker_4HOST
7:14
Later, police realize that these scenes mark the graves of their victims.
speaker_4HOST
7:19
They escape to Saddleworth to drink wine, listen to classical music, and kill children.
speaker_4HOST
7:24
It was Myra and Ian against the world.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:29
For all intents and purposes, Hindley seemed a relatively normal, in inverted commas, young female until she teamed up with Ian Brady.

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Ian FairleyGUEST
17:35
But the fact that they taped it, God, it's horrible.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
17:39
They got tape recordings, they got photographs, and the picture that began to assemble then was of a bizarre, ugly, pornographic, cult relationship, and it was then that they started looking through missing files, missing children and so on, and the whole thing basically exploded.
speaker_4HOST
18:03
Following a tip-off from David Smith, police from five neighbouring forces began searching Saddleworth Moors.
speaker_4HOST
18:11
They were determined to give poor Leslie Ann Downey's mum some kind of closure.
Steve BancroftGUEST
22:41
Yeah.
Steve BancroftGUEST
22:42
I mean, I suppose the place I learned to climb would be Den Lane Quarry, which is, it's an open mill, Saddleworth, and So it's an old wreck.
Steve BancroftGUEST
22:54
You could still climb on part of it, but after that, it's like dog kennels and a mess.
Niall GrimesHOST
23:06
Right,

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