On this page you can experience dialect speakers reading Lancashire literature by not only hearing the dialect but seeing the source poem as well. This will be particularly beneficial to those unused to the sight and sound of the County's dialect and we hope will encourage people to start 'having a go' themselves once familiarity is achieved.

World War 2

Audio
Description
Player
Description
Player
Audrey Dowding Liverpool Burns PA Brian Downes Bomb in garden AD
Henry D Forrest Helped Evacuees as a Scout DAR Hilda Burton Memories and evacuees BU
Doris Birchall 3 Memories BI Frank Curwood Churchill AC
Doris Birchall Rationing BI Enid Catterall Long feet and coupons HOG
Geoff Bellis GIs and POWs CO Jim Sylvia Berkley Italian POW and Irish Ghost OR
JWilson JHeaton PFlynn JW POWs who stayed PA Ruth Burs Americans at EdgeHill BU