In this special edition we look at the folklore and folk tales associated with the stone circles and standing stones of the British Isles. Our guests are Anna Chorlton, Kevan Manwaring, Amy Boucher, Chloe Germaine and Catherine Munro and we visit stone circles from Cornwall up to Orkney and Shetland taking in Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire and Cumbrian circles along the way.
Our guests in this podcast are Anna Chorlton, Kevan Manwaring, Amy Boucher, Chloe Germaine and Catherine Munro
The presenter of this podcast is Kate Edney
The readers are Sally Walker Taylor and Ilaria Passeri
Music, sound design, editing and mixing were by Chris Gregory
Sound effects were from Freesound.org
As this is a long edition of the podcast we’re providing some timing notes for the various sections. If your podcast player supports it you should be able to use clickable chapter markers to jump straight to these sections. If not the timings below should help you.
1.40 Cornwall with Anna Chorlton https://twitter.com/anna_chorlton
14.00 Wiltshire and Oxfordshire with Kevan Manwaring https://twitter.com/bardicacademic
39.18 Shropshire with Amy Boucher https://twitter.com/g0blinegg
46.50 Cumbria with Chloe Germaine https://twitter.com/gothlit_chloe
1.13.45 Orkney and Shetland with Catherine Munro https://twitter.com/CatherineMMunro
Find out more about our contributors by following them on twitter or visiting their websites
Anna Chorlton http://annachorlton.com/
You can find links to buy Anna’s book Cornish Folk Tales of Place which is mentioned in the podcast on her website.
Kevan Manwaring https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/
Amy Boucher. https://linktr.ee/NearlyKnowledgeable
Here you’ll find links to a number of Amy’s sites including her brilliant Nearly Knowledgeable History Blog
Chloe Germaine https://www.chloegermainebuckley.com/
Catherine Munro https://catherinemmunro.wordpress.com/
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