Crafters Share Their Handmade Pre-Craft Rituals and Traditions
Crafts are incredibly important; in the UK, we have the Heritage Crafts organisation, which works towards ensuring the survival of traditional craft skills. Many crafts are a form of intangible cultur...
14 Nov 21min
Making a Folklore Documentary about the Ritual Year with Dave Brewis
I've got a special bonus episode for you today since I sat down for a chat with Dave Brewis, the Northumberland-based filmmaker behind the Gatherings series you might have seen on Apple TV or Amazon P...
13 Nov 1h
Skiffle: A 1950s British Musical Craze with DIY Instruments
When you think of the term ‘handmade’, you might not immediately think of music. After all, we buy instruments; we don’t generally make them ourselves. Yet in the case of skiffle, this is precisely wh...
7 Nov 23min
Three Guest Ghost Stories for Halloween
May I wish you the happiest of Halloweens - if, indeed, a happy Halloween is something we can achieve! As this is the opening day of a series of days devoted to the dead, which in my view culminates ...
31 Okt 32min
US Folk Horror with Candice Bailey and Gavin Lees
This month on Fabulous Folklore Presents, I'm joined by Candice Bailey and Gavin Lees, the co-editors of the Crossroads folk horror zine. Candice also writes for the folk horror blog The Harvest Maid'...
27 Okt 58min
Three More Female Ghosts from North East England
It is the month of Halloween so welcome to the Fabulous Folklore Fireside, for we shall have some more ghostly tales this week! Unlike my usual episodes, which feature some kind of dissection of the ...
24 Okt 16min
Three Ghosthunters and a Podcast with Rob Kirkup and Wayne Gilbert
For this special Spooky Season episode of Fabulous Folklore, I'm joined by my very good friends Rob Kirkup from the How Haunted? podcast, and Wayne Gilbert from the Eerie Edinburgh podcast. Both have...
17 Okt 1h 36min
3 Ghostly Tales from North East England for Halloween
It is the month of Halloween so welcome to the Fabulous Folklore Fireside, for we shall have some ghostly tales this week! Unlike my usual episodes, which feature some kind of dissection of the stori...
10 Okt 18min
