Your author in mufti, with the new edition of TOB, and the very knackered old copy which has travelled the world with me. Glorious tidings! Indeed, these are tidings I should have had for you ninety-seven yonks and an eon ago, but the fact remains that TALES OF BRITAIN IS BACK IN PRINT – and…
HISTORIES OF BRITAIN 2!
Well, what a merry Christmas this now shall be for you all! At the ten-and-a-halfth-hour, Audible has finally announced the arrival of the FIRST EVER audiobook recording of the entirety of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain – a totally insane epic tissue of fantasies written by a Norman monk 900 years…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Summer 2025
Happy encroachment of the season of mists and mellow fruitiness to all! Something wicked this way comes… Firstly, I can't pretend that this year's Edinburgh Fringe outing for Tales of Britain was a huge success – choosing a LGBT+-friendly venue was important to us, but it was a bit of a shock to realise that…
THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE BLACK ADDER STRIKES BACK!
The sound of hooves is coming back over the glen… Oh yes, the Blackadder 40th anniversary may be in evidence on Channel Davy Gold and suchlike, in the Royal Mail stamps and Sir Tony's new Cunningcast thing, but some of us have been building up to the 40th anniversary of the greatest sitcom in (and…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Not Quite Winter 2022
Once upon a time, Tales of Britain updates used to be weekly, every Folklore Thursday, without fail. (Is Folklore Thursday even a thing now? There seems to be a similar hashtag every day of the week!) Then, the missives from Brother Bernard slowed down to become seasonal… and then… Girls, and indeed boys, this is…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Not Quite Autumn 2021
Far away, in the top left-hand corner of Wales… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUodJgbfIhk As that crazy little thing called Mabon encroaches, I surely have to apologise for getting a little 'What-I-Did-On-Me-Holidays', but a honeymoon with my beloved in the folklore-steeped hills of Snowdonia, coinciding with the long-gestated second volume of TALES OF BRITAIN ON AUDIBLE, has meant a…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Summer 2020
Tuesday, 23 June 2020 Summer Storytelling! Happy Folklore Thursday, Tales-lovers! After a long spring lockdown's weekly stories, Brother Bernard has slipped back into his cave, but left a whole barrage of tales to enjoy at your leisure: TALES OF BRITAIN: THE SERIES! From Three Bears to Three Pigs, taking in Taliesin and Jack, Dildrum and Doldrum, seals,…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Spring 2020
Wednesday, 17 June 2020 The Three Little Pigs: Huffing & Puffing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCmfJw84HhM A very WARM Folklore Thursday this week – and the last of our weekly lockdown stories! This all began because of the lovely feedback from home-schoolers about our second such tale – The Three Bears! And so it only seems right to come…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Winter 2020
Thursday, 12 March 2020 Most Ignobly Done... Merry Folklore Thursday, story-adorers! A brief foray away from our 2020 hibernation to join in this week's fascinating theme of IMMORALITY, spun off from the recent reports of plagiarism shown by 'a UK folklore podcast', as outlined here by our friend Dee Dee: Maybe it's not too surprising that…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Autumn 2019
THURsday, 19 December 2019 Thank You – For Auld Lang's Syne MERRY YULE, Folklore Funsters! We know there's officially no Folklore Thursday this week, but as autumn ends and a new decade begins, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make this launch year for us, after 15 years of hard…
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