In our final episode, we explore the legacy of the Cotton Famine. Ruth-Anne meets Jenny Harper from the University of Reading to learn about a working-class feminist writer, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, who carried on the political activism of the Cotton Famine poets into the 1920s. And the literary legacy continues in Lancashire today with autodidact Sid Calderbank.

Written and presented by Ruth-Anne Walbank

Produced by Daniel Woodburn

Music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi

Ruth-Anne travels to the Cotton Famine Road in Rochdale, one of the lasting monuments to this turbulent time in working-class history in the North-West. We speak to Alan Rawsterne from the Rooley Moor Neighbourhood Forum and playwright Mick Martin about what the Cotton Famine road symbolises for them today.

Written and presented by Ruth-Anne Walbank

Produced by Daniel Woodburn

Music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi

What was daily life like for those experiencing the Cotton Famine? Joined by Charlotte Craig from the Craven Museum in Skipton, this episode explores the extraordinary diary of cotton weaver Richard Ryley to understand the impact of the American Civil War on working-class people in Lancashire.

Written and presented by Ruth-Anne Walbank

Produced by Daniel Woodburn

Music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi