‘Are we reyt?’: the course that aims to revive the Yorkshire dialect

The Guardian attends a session of the six-week course Let’s Talk Tyke! on a drizzly morning in Keighley

“Mek thisen at ‘ome, lass,” says Rod Dimbleby, shortly after the Guardian arrives at his Yorkshire dialect class. He introduces the group of nearly two-dozen mostly grey-haired students.

They pipe up cheerily: “Na then,” and “ey up!”