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  • S3E64 – Grim’s Ditch with Robin Ince

    Robin Ince takes the Loremen for a meander along Grim's Ditch, encountering everything from 1970s horror films to 1970s folk horror films.
  • S3E63 – April Fools’ – LIVE!

    Tales of impossible frogs, the dangers of 'lad banter' and dead body hijinks: a sort of Bank Holiday Weekend at Bernie's.
  • S3E62 – Pitcairn Island

    The Loreboys visit the most remote (inhabited) place on earth and discover that paradise is not all it's cracked up to be.

S3E55 – The Tale of Meg Merrilies with Chris Cantrill

January 2021January 2021 Alasdair

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Meg Merrilies was a highwaywoman who was ruthless in her pursuit of riches, a hobby which some say has continued beyond the grave…

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S3E54 – The Madness of Crowds

January 2021January 2021 Alasdair

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A remarkable compendium of mass hysterias from the Scottish curmudgeon Charles Mackay.

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S3E53 – The Mystery of Lucy Lightfoot

January 2021January 2021 Alasdair

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Medieval romance, time travel and a solar eclipse: all the excitement of a parish newsletter.

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S3E52 – Return of the Gabriel Hounds

January 2021January 2021 Alasdair

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The Gabriel Hounds are invisible flying dogs that presage death. We track them down to the rudest village in England.

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S3E51 – Xmas Special: Joseph of Arimathea in Glastonbury

December 2020December 2020 Alasdair

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Did Jesus’s uncle Joseph (presumably on his mum’s side) retire to England with the Holy Grail? Probably not.

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S3E50 – The Ghosts of Warwick Castle with Stuart Goldsmith

December 2020December 2020 Alasdair

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Stuart Goldsmith joins the Lorebois for some spooky tales from Warwick Castle, where he used to be the jester.

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S3E49 – The Legend of Sawney Bean

December 2020December 2020 Alasdair

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The Loremen are on the hunt for British werewolves, but it turns out the scariest thing of all… is the truth.

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S3E48 – The Sea Beasts of Shetland

December 2020December 2020 Alasdair

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Alasdair leads us across the sea to the Shetland Islands, for a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of sea monsters.

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S3E47 – Weird Milton Keynes

November 2020December 2020 Alasdair

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Andrew O’Neill brings the Loremen a cursed elm tree, a diabolical neighbour and a time-travelling windmill.

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S3E46 – Crystal Palace

November 2020December 2020 Alasdair

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Plummet! Into a ghost train full of Victorian skeletons. Dine! Inside an historically inaccurate dinosaur.

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