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Folklore: Beliefs, traditions & culture of the people. Traditional folklore themes from around the w

Episodes

Total: 220

Episode 132: EXECUTION BALLADS

2023/5/17

On her website, Execution Ballads, Dr Una McIlvenna writes:"Across Europe, from the sixteenth centur

Episode 131: THE OTHER PATH

2023/5/10

Odyssey Theatre is Ottowa's premiere professional theatre company, specialising in the old tradition

Episode 130: HOODENING

2023/5/2

The Folklore Podcast presents a recording of a panel discussion hosted at Maidstone Museum on the su

We explore the figure of the Slavic forest witch Baba Yaga in this episode of The Folklore Podcast,

Episode 128: WILD

2023/4/11

We welcome Dr Amy Jeffs back to The Folklore Podcast. After the much-lauded success of her first boo

In another interview recorded live at the 2023 UK Ghost Story Festival at the Museum of Making in De

In the next in our occasional series of episodes looking at American storytellers, theatre and film

A Folklore Podcast Bonus Feature.Recorded live at the UK Ghost Story Festival 2023 at the Museum of

The idea of the trickster is a strong archetype in mythology and folklore in different cultures arou

We shine a spotlight on an often overlooked and misunderstood part of the English folk dance traditi

Guest interviewer, writer Beth O'Brien (the founder of Disabled Tales) meets with author Catherine B

Episode 123: PETRIFIED

2023/1/29

We meet writer/director Peter Dunne and actress Margaret McAuliffe from the celebrated Irish horror

Episode 122: COOPER BRAUN

2023/1/11

In the first of a short series of episodes profiling American storytellers, we meet Cooper Braun who

Season 8 of The Folklore Podcast kicks off with an exploration of the subject of the English folk ta

In the final show of Season 7, we welcome back film director George Popov to discuss the second in h

The stories in our culture are vital to our identity. But, what happens when our history and the sto

In 1943, a group of boys wandering the woodlands near Hagley Hall, in Worcestershire in the West Mid

The Folklore Podcast's literary correspondent Hilary Wilson speaks with Veronica Varlow on the subje

BONUS CONTENT: Divination

2022/10/17

A bonus episode of The Folklore Podcast exploring the different types of divination found in culture

Episode 117: POLARI

2022/10/12

We look into the crossover between the fields of linguistics, social history and folklore with an ex