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Radio Leeds,04 Mar 2026,3 mins

Monsters on Huddersfield Town Hall

Hidden West Yorkshire

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‘It’s Mythic up North’ is a poetry collection describing the outcome when the gods and beasts of ancient mythology find themselves battling with every day folk from ‘up north’. The author Mary Lister, chat's to Gayle Lofthouse about the poetry collection Zeus, the most powerful of the Olympian Gods, discovers he’s been ‘cancelled’ for cavorting In Leeds and Half-human, half-bird mythological creatures, known as Harpies, build their nests on Huddersfield Town Hall. Image Credit: Mary Lister

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