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Have you ever seen liquorice? The actual plant, rather than the sweet? Now’s your chance.

Fyfe Robertson gets his hands dirty as he delves into the entwined histories of liquorice and the Yorkshire town of Pontefract, seemingly the only place in England where it will grow.

‘Pontefract cakes’ are a famous local delicacy, cut and stamped by hand even when produced in a factory. But the liquorice itself is no longer being harvested outside the town – young men are no longer up to the task, apparently. Fyfe meets a local farmer who worries that this miraculous crop’s future is in doubt.

Excerpt taken from Tonight: Pontefract Liquorice, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 15 November, 1963.






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