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Saturday 24th November
Matt Baker goes to Whitby to discover its Gothic Connections
A small fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast offers all the usual diversions you'd expect to find there - beaches, buckets and spades and boat trips for tourists. But Whitby has a little bit more - it plays host to four thousand goths for two weekends every year. Matt Baker travels to the town to discover what it is about Whitby which attracts them. He speaks to Anne Sudworth, an artist who specialises in gothic landscapes; Ron Frampton, who's been a fisherman all his life; Mike Wray, who documents local folklore; and Harry Collett, who walks the town at night, telling people about the inspiration the town gave Bram Stoker - an inspiration which led him to create the character of Dracula.
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