Welcome to Episode 113 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast.
Another really obvious podcast episode, and one I’m surprised I hadn’t yet done, though it did, of course, require finally reading the novel. I live about 6 miles south of Wuthering Heights, over the wily, windy moors, and the recent movie adaptation, the thousandth of many, has brought it all back into the public eye, so it made sense to talk about the moorland setting, the location and inspiration for the houses, and why it’s not the romantic location (or indeed storyline) that certain elements of pop-culture have made it sound.
Topics discussed in this episode are:
Parts One and Two: Housekeeping and a brief plotline to the novel ‘Wuthering Heights’
- What Stand-Up Comedy might lead me to
- My ‘A’-Level History course
- Heathcliff/Catherine/Hindley are not nice people
- Who is Heathcliff anyway
- Revenge is a dish best served with an awful lot of money
- Everyone dies of exposure
- Same story, same names, different generation
- Memes
Part Three: Out on the wily, windy moors
- Bleak, muddy, grey, damp, and needs walking boots
- What is a moor anyway?
- Saddleworth Moor, a place of death
- Midgley Moor, a place of death
- “On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at”, a place of … you get the idea
Part Four: Where is Wuthering Heights anyway?
- Top Withens is not it
- Ponden Hall might be it
- High Sunderland Hall might have been it
- Shibden Hall could be Thurcross Grange
- Ponden Kirk is definitely in the novel
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