John Blow

The TV programme Extraordinary Portraits puts normal people with incredible stories in the spotlight and a new exhibition in Bradford brings all the art works together. John Blow reports.

Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan is going back out on tour and has gigs coming up in the region. She talks to John Blow.

Belinda May uses the tools and techniques inherited from her parents to create and perform her own history plays with puppets. John Blow reports. Pictures by Simon Hulme.

Hebden Bridge author Rozie Kelly publishes her debut novel in April, a year after she was announced winner of the NorthBound Book Award. She talks to John Blow.

Barnsley author Milly Johnson will soon release her 22nd novel. She tells John Blow how it was inspired by menopause, wills and life’s other big changes.

Kosovo remains precariously peaceful 25 years on from war but Yorkshire soliders were there last autumn amid continued tensions – an issue highlighted by tomorrow’s elections in the Balkan nation. John Blow joined them on patrol.

During the 1st Battalion of the The Royal Yorkshire Regiment’s trip to Kosovo last year, Padre Rob Desics told John Blow how he joined the Army, shares details of his work and revealed what’s in his ‘bag of morale’.

Corporal Bishwaraj Rai tells John Blow about his poignant trip to Kosovo.

Musical theatre’s John Barrowman is coming to Yorkshire. He tells John Blow about re-establishing his career, speaking the truth and Bernard Cribbins.

Here are some of the TV highlights in the week ahead starting Saturday, February 1, including the Six Nations, Top Guns: Inside the RAF and Extraordinary Portraits with Bill Bailey.