NEWS FLASH! YouTube Podcast

A few weeks ago I was approached by a lovely lady called Vanessa Y Rogers from a YouTube channel called The Fabric of Folklore. She asked if I’d mind being a guest on a podcast to discuss some of the customs of the medieval harvest and Christmas. It seemed like a fun idea, so I agreed and we recorded the episode last week.

So if you fancy taking a look, here’s the link:

Hope you enjoy it!

19 thoughts on “NEWS FLASH! YouTube Podcast”

  4. Well, this was a turn-up for the books! I’ve only watched just over 20 minutes of it and absolutely loving it. I can remember when you went on that quest in North Wales which, looking back, must have been an omen that you would end up living there. I’ll come back to you when I’ve watched some more.

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    • Thanks Malc! 😀 Really glad you’re enjoying it. It’s longer than I was expecting but we just seemed to keep chatting, and I suppose we covered a fair bit. There’s even a couple of Saxon riddles towards the end. 🙂 Don’t feel you have to watch all of it though – I can’t bring myself to watch me at all! 😀

      It did come out of the blue a bit, but it was nice to hear from Vanessa and I thought, why not?

      Well,, you wanted me to do more blogging, so I’m trying to deliver. Got a few plans to come, and my Christmas post should be out later. Hope you enjoy that one too. In the meantime, you’ve given me a real lift today. Thanks for that. 🙂

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      • I lied. I haven’t quite watched all the podcast, but enough now to pass another comment on it. As I said before, you came across really well and I believe your host thought so too. Those who are interested in the way medieval people did Christmas and didn’t see it missed a real treat! 🎄

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      • Aww, thanks Malc! 🙂 Again, that means a great deal to me, especially as I haven’t watched it! 😉 Yes, Vanessa seemed to enjoy our chat, and I’m glad you did too. 🎄x

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  5. I think the two main problems with the harvest festival are a) people are mostly too removed from nature nowadays and also from farming (our farming area is quite good at celebrating it in a fairly traditional fashion) and b) mechanisation of farming – I think that also distances the farmers from nature and the land in quite a big way unfortunately. Because they don’t actually physically handle the crops any more, they don’t make things like corn dollies and so on – which is a shame.

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    • Exactly, they’re removed from it because nobody is really involved any more – it’s all mechanised. And that’s a great point about farmers being distanced from nature too as a result. Sad in many ways. And the demise of the corn dollies.

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      • and of course there was a huge impact on employment in rural areas – those who would have got jobs on farms could no longer get one as it was so mechanised they didn’t need farm labourers any more. It also put all those lovely horses out of business too…

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  6. I got hooked originally when I was a mere babe (maybe 11 or 12) and read all those Thomas Costain novels. Then I had to find out what was true and what was fiction. I kept moving up in time until after the Tudors, I move into France and eventually, over the years, finally gave in and did some reading about THIS country. Amazing how this stuff grabs you. It doesn’t let go.

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