On todays final show of 2024 we take a long walk on the moor with writer and gentleman Jeremy Dyson.

We first head to Ripon to witness the supposed longest surviving continuous folklore practice in the world, The Ripon Hornblower, and find out more about this extraordinary custom.

We grab our walking boots and head up Ilkely Moor, with dark tales of alien encounters and cannibals that lurk amongst the boulders. We discuss ghostly encounters on the dark moor as well as Jeremy being not only one forth of the legendary creative team that gave us the League of Gentleman, but also the co creator of the hit play Ghost Stories.

Expect ghosts, ghouls and goblins as we wander the overgrown paths of Ilkley Moor bah t'at!

Enjoy!

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Today we unearth a hidden corner of London as we creep around the frozen docks and inky darkness of Limehouse.

In the 16th to the 18th century the area of Limehouse became synonymous as a melting pot of folklore and people as the docks brought stories, superstitions and strange new cultures. It had its own Golem wandering the abandoned warehouses and dockyards, it had the sensational tales of Thomas Burke who wrote of opium dens and backstreet murders even Blur's Damon Albarn invoked the spirit of Dr John Dee in its ancient streets.

We explore it all with the help of the incredible musician, composer and writer Sarah Angliss.

Expect haunted puppets, winter spirits and bell foundries.

And the brilliant Maggie Service reads from The Dark Courtyard by Thomas Burke

Enjoy!

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In todays episode of FolkLands we delve into the world of spirit as we explore some of the stranger Inns, hostelries and public houses of London.

From the 'hanging' breakfasts of Newgate, the bombed charnel house of St. Brides and the trap doors of Sweeney Todds barber shop we sink beneath the streets of London to reveal its dark, spooky and inglorious heart.

Expect plague pits, Ostriches, dungeons and headless phantoms galore.

Enjoy, and a Happy Halloween to you all!

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