A BBC presenter has hailed the 'grandeur' of County Durham landmarks that provided the backdrops for a series of live broadcasts over a week.

Petroc Trelawny, host of BBC Radio 3's Breakfast programme, has been broadcasting from a range of locations across the North East including places like Lindisfarne, Vindolanda, The Bowes Museum, Durham Cathedral, and Tynemouth Priory.

His journey will conclude in a weekend of BBC Proms performances at The Glasshouse in Gateshead on Saturday and Sunday.

Trelawny spoke exclusively to The Northern Echo about the shows which were most recently broadcast from Durham Cathedral and The Bowes Museum.

The museum in Barnard Castle was "very high" on a list of places the BBC man wanted to visit - a list he keeps on a bunch of Post-it notes.

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He admired both the museum's impressive European art collection and the grand architecture.

"I couldn't quite believe it. Suddenly in front of you is this great French Chateau," he said.

"The grandeur of it is so impressive. It is a world-class museum in a building that is an absolute world-class building.

"It was fantastic that we got the Silver Swan to perform live on the programme. You know, the Silver Swan does very limited private performances. But it gave one for Radio 3 which was absolutely fantastic."

In addition, he revealed some of the efforts the team went to while broadcasting the show from The Bowes Museum, which he says he will "definitely" visit again.

"Our engineers had to lay hundreds of thousands of cables so that we could travel all over The Bowes Museum.

"We always travel with a hydrophone which is a sort of underwater microphone which normally we drop into the sea and listen to the sound of the water from underneath.

"But this time we put it into the fountain and it sounded incredible. It was a really magical moment of live radio to be listening to the water in the fountain of The Bowes Museum."

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Thursday's programme was broadcast from Durham Cathedral.

"You can almost hear the silence of the place, we were the only people in there," he said.

Trelawny also spoke about the experience of having the Cathedral's director of music perform live during the show describing it as "very special".

Radio Three has taken its breakfast show across the country and Trelawny divulged what kind of discussions went on to bring the show to the region.

"We just wanted five locations that were very different, each of which would have something to say, places that would sound good on the radio, places that would have a bit of history to recount."

The Radio 3 Breakfast Show broadcasts from 6.30am to 9.30am and is also available on-demand via BBC Sounds.