CHRISTINE ON DONATING A KIDNEY TO HER FRIEND
What’s the nicest thing you’ve done for a friend? Looked after their pet? Given them a surprise treat? Provided a shoulder to cry on and a listening ear? How about given them a kidney?! That’s exactly what Christine Ashton from Brompton-by-Sawdon did for her friend Barbara, when Barbara was told she had months to live and desperately needed a transplant. Despite all of Barbara’s family members being tested none were compatible. Amazingly, her friend Christine was a perfect match. Andrew Barton went to meet the lady who laid her life on the line for the sake of friendship. A YORK-BASED PRIVATE DETECTIVE TALKS 'INFIDELITY'
If you think your partner's cheating on you, at what point do you decide it's time to hire a private detective? What do people hope to achieve by doing do so? And if the detective does find out something unpleasant, how does he break the news to the person who commissioned the investigation? These are just some of the questions BBC Radio York's breakfast presenter Jeremy Buxton put to a York-based private detective. JAYNE AND ROSIE EXPLORE 'THE GENERATION GAP'
The three P’s of the teenage years - puberty, pimples and parents - can be a nightmare. The older generation know all too well about the trials of teenage life, having experienced the same embarrassments, and yet every parent is shocked when they hear themselves uttering the same phrases used by their parents: ‘it was different in my day,’ suddenly slips out, closely followed by, ‘if I’d have spoken to my parents like that.’ Before you know it your own childhood is envisaged by your children in black and white and is referred to by them as ‘the olden days.’ So is the generation gap avoidable, or inevitable? To find out we sent Andrew Barton, our own sepia tinged reporter, to speak to York mum and teenage daughter, Jayne and Rosie Dwyer. TAXI DRIVERS REVEAL THE THINGS PEOPLE CONFESS TO THEM
As North Yorkshire's taxi drivers will tell you, people are willing to reveal all sorts to complete strangers. Everything from the mundane - holidays, what they're wearing the next night - to the downright juicy stuff, like what their spouse has done wrong. Some will even break down in tears, while others feel the need to explain exactly why the taxi was showered with bin bags full of personal belongings when it arrived. CALLUM ON 'COMING OUT'
Dating. A simple enough thing you might think: the early teens come along and you start to look at the opposite sex in a different way - you start ‘fancying someone.’
Hopefully they ‘fancy’ you too and you start dating. But sometimes it’s not that simple. What if as a teenager you discover that you fancy someone who is the same sex as you? Teenagers are already dealing with raging hormones and identity issues and discovering they might be gay can put an already confused teen in to a state of turmoil.
That’s exactly what happened at the age of 14 to Callum. He told his story to Andrew Barton. DAVID AND KAREN ON MARRIAGE AND LEARNING DISABILITIES
David and Karen have been happily married for four years. They live together, watch telly together, and talk about their experiences with each other. Nothing unusual about that, except David and Karen both have learning disabilities. BBC Radio York reporter Alastair Ross visited them at their home in York, to find out how their marriage works, what inspired them to get married in the first place, and the objections they encountered in the lead-up to the big day. THE SELBY WOMEN WHO'VE BEEN FRIENDS SINCE CHILDHOOD
Most of us are guilty of letting friendship slip by, from close contact to falling off the christmas card list. Keeping in touch takes time, and time is hard to 'make'. But this isn't the case for a group of ladies who meet in Selby once a month, come rain, hail or shine. That's commendable, but what makes them really dedicated friends is that they have known each other for most of their lives. Some were born on the same day, delivered by the same midwife. Others first sat next to each other at infant school. Now it's a cuppa in the Lonsborough Arms and a monthly catch-up. | 
