A miscellany of poetry and prose from a series of writing workshops led by Rachel Cochrane with the Hartlepool  Writers’ Group  on the theme of The Tees Valley, doors and breaking boundaries.  Recorded by Rachel to celebrate Crossing the Tees Book Festival 3rd to 20th June 2015.

Leaving Hartlepool by Pauline Long

Asylum by Roberta Thomson

The Summer of ’69 by Ethel Stirman