Episode Twenty Nine - The Sound of his Horn: The Wild Hunt, and How to Avoid It.
The Wild Hunt has been a ghoulish mainstay of folklore since time immemorial, but who are the Huntsmen, and what do they want? Often terrifying, somet...
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A regular podcast covering different aspects of English folklore, starting in East Anglia. Broadcast from the media suite at UEA, we include monthly podcasts covering a different myths, interspersed with interviews, specials and readings from local authors.
Episode Twenty Eight - In the Mood for Mystery: The Vanishing of Glenn Miller
The disappearance of 40s big-band icon Glenn Miller is one of the best known, and most investigated, mysteries of the second world war. Friendly fire,...
Episode Twenty Seven - The George at Dereham (For Norwich Pride 2021)
In honour of Norwich Pride 2021, we take a look at the bloody beginnings of Dereham, before focusing on one it's most famous landmarks, the George Hot...
Episode Twenty Six - The Ghosts of Poppyland
Poppyland, the wide stretch of meadows and fields that runs along part of the North Norfolk coast, was the inspiration for many Victorian poets and ar...
Episode Twenty Five - The Song of the Sea
The sea shanty was the recent focus of a social media craze, but in many ways it revival completely predictable. As we shall see today, the shanty has...
Episode Twenty Four - The Society for Psychical Research: The Science of Ghosts
The history and aims of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) provides a fascinating look at a point in our history where religion, science and the...
Episode Twenty Three - Eye Witness The Dead
As a follow-up episode to last month's look at the white women ghosts of East Anglia, we present an eye-witness, first hand account of a student teach...
Episode Twenty Two - Madness and Blessings: The Lady in White
Imagine a ghost and the classical image of a figure in white may pop into your mind. The lady in white is one of the archetypal spectres, and East Ang...
Episode Twenty One - Midnight in the Village of Heaven and Hell
While locked down in our houses, it is very easy to forget that we are surrounded by wild, open, empty spaces. The Broads exemplify the strange patchw...
Episode Twenty - Murder On A Winter's Day: The Killer and the Lord
Thank you so much to those of you who joined us for our recent run of ghost stories, as well as the online screening of Clive Dunn's documentary about...