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: Spring 2018
With TALES OF BRITAIN, the first British folktale anthology to be released in decades, nearing publication, it seems timely to migrate all the weekly blogs going back to the launch at Glastonbury in 2017 to a safer place, as Nuada knows what Unbound does with them after publication. I’ve made attempts to keep references intact…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Winter 2018
With TALES OF BRITAIN, the first British folktale anthology to be released in decades, nearing publication, it seems timely to migrate all the weekly blogs going back to the launch at Glastonbury in 2017 to a safer place, as Nuada knows what Unbound does with them after publication. I’ve made attempts to keep references intact…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Autumn 2017
With TALES OF BRITAIN, the first British folktale anthology to be released in decades, nearing publication, it seems timely to migrate all the weekly blogs going back to the launch at Glastonbury in 2017 to a safer place, as Nuada knows what Unbound does with them after publication. I've made attempts to keep references intact…
Rik at 60: Duh-Eh-Ah-Duh
HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY, would have been nice to say, RIK MAYALL! When Rik's final jog spoiled everything back in 2014, I wrote a blog all too soon, and was honoured to also provide a short Flashheart-themed obit for the BBC, but today seems an auspicious occasion to muse a bit more about missing The Late…
Tales of Britain #1
It's time to come out of the scriptorium – yes, I am Brother Bernard. And my fifth book project, just launched on Unbound, is http://www.TalesofBritain.com. A lot of people have been kind enough to say that ToB is a fantastic idea. But it's more the case that it's a HORRIFIC idea that there's currently nothing…
Jem Roberts 