The Folklore Podcast
Folklore: Beliefs, traditions & culture of the people. Traditional folklore themes from around the world. One episode each month features a special guest from the field of folklore. Recalling our forgotten history, recording the new. The Folklore Podcast
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 131
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Episode 131: THE OTHER PATH
Odyssey Theatre is Ottowa's premiere professional theatre company, specialising in the old tradition of masked performance. So what happened when the world when into lockdown and theatre became, for …
01:05:10 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Episode 130: HOODENING
The Folklore Podcast presents a recording of a panel discussion hosted at Maidstone Museum on the subject of the Kentish tradition of Hoodening and the Hooden hobby horse. This panel was presented as…
00:51:42 |
Tue 02 May 2023
Episode 129: INTO THE FOREST
We explore the figure of the Slavic forest witch Baba Yaga in this episode of The Folklore Podcast, through the lens of a new women in horror anthology called 'Into the Forest'. Amongst the 23 storie…
00:36:55 |
Mon 24 Apr 2023
Episode 128: WILD
We welcome Dr Amy Jeffs back to The Folklore Podcast. After the much-lauded success of her first book, 'Storyland' we chat about Amy's new book 'Wild', published by Quercus, which examines tales from…
00:59:00 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
BONUS FEATURE: Camilla Bruce
In another interview recorded live at the 2023 UK Ghost Story Festival at the Museum of Making in Derby, Folklore Podcast host Mark Norman chats with Norwegian author Camilla Bruce about the folklore…
00:16:57 |
Mon 03 Apr 2023
Episode 127: RACHEL ANN HARDING
In the next in our occasional series of episodes looking at American storytellers, theatre and film correspondent Tracy Nicholas meets teller Rachel Ann Harding.To support the Folklore Podcast on Pat…
01:00:14 |
Sun 19 Mar 2023
Episode 125: GIRLS' CARNIVAL MORRIS
We shine a spotlight on an often overlooked and misunderstood part of the English folk dance tradition as we welcome special guest Lucy Wright to discuss Girls' Carnival Morris tradition. One of the …
00:55:48 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Episode 124: SOUL OF A RAVEN
Guest interviewer, writer Beth O'Brien (the founder of Disabled Tales) meets with author Catherine Bloor to discuss her novel 'Soul of a Raven', a genre-defying mix of magic, folklore and mystery set…
00:30:41 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Episode 123: PETRIFIED
We meet writer/director Peter Dunne and actress Margaret McAuliffe from the celebrated Irish horror podcast 'Petrified' to discuss dark folklore from Ireland, how the horror genre and folklore utilis…
00:51:31 |
Sun 29 Jan 2023
Episode 122: COOPER BRAUN
In the first of a short series of episodes profiling American storytellers, we meet Cooper Braun who reminds us that folk and fairy tales are not just for children. An accomplished and prize-winning …
01:17:42 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Episode 121: ENGLISH FOLKTALES
Season 8 of The Folklore Podcast kicks off with an exploration of the subject of the English folk tale, with guest Neil Philip. Neil, who originally published the Penguin Book of English Folktales ye…
00:47:04 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Episode 120: TERRORS OF THE SEA
In the final show of Season 7, we welcome back film director George Popov to discuss the second in his 'Sideworld' series of documentaries. This time, George explores folklore and legend connected wi…
00:55:24 |
Sun 18 Dec 2022
Episode 119: REWRITING HISTORY
The stories in our culture are vital to our identity. But, what happens when our history and the stories associated with it are rewritten? How has folklore been used in the past to convey hidden mean…
00:48:11 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Episode 118: BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM
In 1943, a group of boys wandering the woodlands near Hagley Hall, in Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England, discovered the remains of an unknown woman stuffed inside a hollowed Wych Elm tre…
00:53:41 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
BOOK CLUB 28: Bohemian Magick
The Folklore Podcast's literary correspondent Hilary Wilson speaks with Veronica Varlow on the subject of Bohemian Magick, also the title of the author's most recent book.Veronica is the last daughte…
00:40:13 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
BONUS CONTENT: Divination
A bonus episode of The Folklore Podcast exploring the different types of divination found in cultures around the world, and looking at how these can be used through storytelling mechanisms for playin…
00:55:57 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
Episode 117: POLARI
We look into the crossover between the fields of linguistics, social history and folklore with an examination of the secret language Polari. Coming from 16th century roots, Polari is generally known …
00:40:29 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Episode 116: ARCHAEOLOGICAL STORYTELLING
Storytelling is not just about entertainment. Now, and especially in the past, the purpose of story has also been to educate, to inform, and to place us within our own culture, time, place and landsc…
00:59:00 |
Sun 25 Sep 2022
Episode 115: SELKIES
The legend of the Selkie, a woman or man who comes ashore as a seal before shedding their skin to turn human, is common in the Scottish Islands, but has parallels in other cultures. In this episode o…
00:46:38 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
Episode 114: THE SPIRIT ENGINEER
The investigation of alleged physical medium Kathleen Goligher by the engineer William Jackson Crawford is both fascinating and strangely tragic, but remained until recently a 'lost case' of Edwardia…
00:54:17 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
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