Douglas Stuart is touring with Young Mungo, his followup to the Booker Prize-winning Shuggie Bain. There's also a raucous new musical based on Peter Mullan's cult movie Orphans and a mess of new exhibitions, including a Barbara Hepworth retrospective.
CRAVEN farmers took a bit of convincing when the whole idea of the Women’s Land Army (WLA) and ‘land girls’ was presented to them back in the hard days of the Second World War. Farmers were ‘more than a little sceptical about the wisdom of employing lasses’ reported the Craven Herald 75 years ago, in April, 1946. The paper was following up reports from the WLA that it had received a ‘raw deal’ from some authorities, which was a pity said the Herald, which concluded that the land girls had done an excellent job, many had settled down in the area, and that their efforts were still needed in peace time.