Just in case you don't know about it already, the Dialect of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (DHIL) corpus I've been putting together over the last few years is available online and can be accessed here subject to submission of a user agreement form:
http://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte/dhil.htm
On the DHIL website, you can listen to the soundfiles aligned with orthographic transcriptions, or download the wav files and ELAN transcription files themselves.
If you are interested in English dialects, Scots, northeast England, local history, place-names, superstitions, fishing terminology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, or even just in hearing a dialect not quite like any you've heard before, have a look!
Warren.
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