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BBC Radio Cumbria Special

Hear BBC Radio Cumbria's specials, covering different people, groups, events and more.

Radio Cumbria,9 episodes

Episodes

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I Have HIV: Fighting The Stigma
What’s life like in 2025 living with HIV?
30 Nov 2025,28 mins
The West Cumbria Shootings
Policing a shooting spree
Deputy Chief Constable Jerry Graham shares memories from the 2010 mass shooting.
22 Apr 2025,15 mins
The West Cumbria Shootings
Face to face with a gunman
Survivors Terry Kennedy and Emma Percival recall their thoughts on the mass shooting.
22 Apr 2025,15 mins,
The West Cumbria Shootings
'Him, the barrels and me'
Harry Berger recalls the moment he was shot by Derrick Bird in June 2010.
22 Apr 2025,14 mins,
The West Cumbria Shootings
Losing my twin sister
Barrie Robinson speaks for the first time about losing her twin Jane Robinson.
22 Apr 2025,13 mins
The West Cumbria Shootings
Reporting during a mass shooting
Ben Maeder recalls reporting on radio while a gunman was on the loose.
22 Apr 2025,15 mins
The Three Bears
Robert Macfarlane reads Robert Southey's original version of the classic fairytale.
30 Apr 2021,7 mins
The Windermere Boys
The Jewish children who escaped the Nazis and came to Cumbria. Presented by John Bowness.
31 Dec 2019,60 mins
Norman Nicholson - Something to Tell
Norman Nicholson - Something to Tell: Celebrating the great Cumbrian wordsmith's life.
25 Aug 2014,60 mins