Thirsk
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Oct 16, 2026
Paul KealyPANELIST
... um, to turn it around, and I'll tell you why I like him, because, well, first of all, yes, I know he's won on soft ground, but his better form is on better ground.
Paul KealyPANELIST
He had a really good run at Thirsk on, on good ground.
Paul KealyPANELIST
Uh, and he's got two fantastic runs on all-weather tracks as well, because I'm big on all-weather tracks.
Paul KealyPANELIST
Uh, one, he, uh, one he won a race by five lengths.
Paul TonkinsonHOST
Yeah, absolutely.
Paul TonkinsonHOST
Did I tell you about meeting the guy who did a sub-three in a Tesco's Thirsk?
Rob DeeringHOST
[laughs] I think he, he-
Paul TonkinsonHOST
He, he, he-
Rob DeeringHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Rob DeeringHOST
[laughs]
Paul TonkinsonHOST
... well, but I met him at Tesco's Thirsk.
Paul TonkinsonHOST
[laughs] He was, bless him, he's an old bloke.
Rory JenningsGUEST
They're all Leeds fans.
Rory JenningsGUEST
If you're from Thirsk, you're a Leeds fan.
Rory JenningsGUEST
If you're from like Chapel Town, you're a Leeds fan.
Rory JenningsGUEST
Wherever you're from, it's a big Catholic area.
Sara BaumeGUEST
Yorkshire, for me Is a place forever associated with handkerchiefs.
Sara BaumeGUEST
Ever since the day my Yorkshire grandmother, the same one who was devoted to needlecraft, brought me on a trip to a summer fair in Thirsk, where I witnessed a troupe of Morris dancers in full flight, stepping, kicking, hopping, wearing bells around their knees, and swishing their handkerchiefs in the air.
Sara BaumeGUEST
This must have been the early 1990s, but in my memory the scene has become confused with my recollection of the story of The Railway Children, and furthermore infused with the weird atmosphere of the 1970 film adaptation of Nesbit's novel.
Sara BaumeGUEST
As so often happens with distant events, the visual residue is a mulch of reality, imagination, and art.
Alasdair Beckett-KingHOST
A little market town.
Alasdair Beckett-KingHOST
It's like a smaller Thirsk.
James ShakeshaftHOST
I don't even know what a standard Thirsk is.
Alasdair Beckett-KingHOST
Yeah.
Alasdair Beckett-KingHOST
I, I [laughs] it's too small a place to use as a comparison for another [laughs] smaller place.
Nick LuckHOST
I did.
Nick LuckHOST
That was his last hurrah when he was about eight at Thirsk, and he landed a bit of a touch.
Nick LuckHOST
But he had one at the York Evil meeting on the- on the way, and a load of other races.
Nick LuckHOST
So I'm forever grateful for that.
Andy DawsonHOST
But James Herriot... that's not his real name his real name was because he's not with us anymore his real name was Alf White and white spelt as in the Isle of White not as in white the colour And he grew up...
Andy DawsonHOST
Well, I don't know if he grew up there, but he lived in Thirsk, which is a place of interest to Top Flight Time Machine.
Sam DelaneyHOST
Yeah.
Sam DelaneyHOST
Of
Andy DawsonHOST
course, the location of one of our greatest ever live shows.
Andy DawsonHOST
He practised as a vet, obviously, because that's how he got all the stories...
Andy DawsonHOST
in Thirsk he was called Alf White and I think he was the life president of Sunderland Football Club he was a Sunderland fan as well
Sam DelaneyHOST
yeah
Ian CollinsHOST
thank you.
Ian CollinsHOST
Kevin Holleyrake is the chairman of the Conservative Party, also Conservative MP for Thirsk and Morton.
Ian CollinsHOST
Thank you to him.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Superior start to the Newsday Talk Breakfast on Talk.
Paul AndrewsGUEST
By the end of the abbot's life, all the monks had local names.
Paul AndrewsGUEST
The last abbot one was a man called William Thirsk.
Sarah MorrisHOST
From the town, local town of Thirsk.
Paul AndrewsGUEST
So they all had English names.
Paul AndrewsGUEST
And we've got no idea whether they were Norman French, because 400 years on, who knows anything? Nobody was,
27 MINS LATER
Sarah MorrisHOST
So it thrived for around 400 years and then of course we reach the 16th century and Henry VIII's tussle with the Church of Rome and his break from Rome and we get to the dissolution and I'm interested to know what happened to the people here? What records do we have of who was here and what happened to them? I
Paul AndrewsGUEST
think there's two parts to that.
Paul AndrewsGUEST
The last abbot but one was this man called William Thirsk, and he retired due to ill health, and he went to live out his days at Jervo.
Catharina VendlHOST
So a little fun fact that I'm really sure our listeners might enjoy.
Catharina VendlHOST
You do your night shifts at a practice in the town of Thirsk.
Catharina VendlHOST
And anyone who grew up with James Herriot will recognize both the town and the name.
Catharina VendlHOST
Does that ever strike you?