In this episode of the Your Harrogate podcast, Pete Egerton speaks to three members of the Knaresborough Lions who are all set for the Great Knaresborough Bed Race. 90 teams are preparing to hit the streets of Knaresborough on Saturday (10th June), and this year’s theme is ‘That’s Entertainment.’ The days starts in the morning at Knaresborough Castle where the teams gather, decorate their beds and don their fancy dress. Judging of the ‘Best Dressed Bed’ starts at 10:30am and will be announced at around 12:30pm. From 1pm, they parade through the town led by the winner of the Best Dressed Award and follow the route to Conyngham Hall field. There, the decorations come off and the teams strip down to racing trim for the Race itself which sets off at 3pm. Lions are a charity and are comprised of volunteers who give up their time to organise fundraising events and make donations to charities and worthy causes, mostly local... [podcast_episode episode="66007" content="excerpt,player"]

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