Skip to main content
Loremen Podcast
  • Home
  • Episodes
    • Get Started
    • Series 1 (8 episodes)
    • Series 2 (13 episodes)
    • Series 3 (107 episodes)
    • Series 4 (57 episodes)
    • Series 5 (64 episodes)
    • Series 6 (49 episodes)
    • Series 7
  • About us
  • Glossary
  • Subscribe
  • Support us
  • S7E7 – Michelham Priory, Upper Dicker

    A new contender for Rudest Place Name has entered the ring! James provides a run-down of Upper Dicker's top monks.
  • S7E6 – The Ghosts of Chilham Castle

    James takes Alasdair round the manor house of Chilham Castle, in Kent. You want skeletons? We got skeletons mate, don't you worry!
  • S7E5 – A Romantic Welsh Buffet with Jenny Collier

    Roses are red, daffodils are jollier, it's Valentine's time, so we're joined by Jenny Collier!
  • S7E4 – Wild Wild Maidstone

    A cute little Kentish tale, plus a murderous bull straight out of Looney Tunes.

S3E2 – A Christmas Miscellany

December 2019September 2024 Alasdair

Podcast: Download (Duration: 19:49 — 18.2MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

A very special festive edition of Loremen featuring exclusively Xmas-themed lore.

Read More

S3E1 – Gef the Talking Mongoose with Pierre Novellie

December 2019September 2024 Alasdair

Podcast: Download (Duration: 44:59 — 41.3MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

Pierre Novellie brings the Loremen a tale from the Isle of Man – once home to Gef the Talking Mongoose.

Read More

S2E13 – The Hexham Heads & The Mickleton Hooter

March 2019December 2024 Alasdair 2 Comments

Podcast: Download (Duration: 34:17 — 31.5MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

In this final episode of series two we come bang up to date (to the 1970s) with a North Eastern tale of Celtic effigies. Then we narrowly avoid Royal slander to chat about the incomparably named “Mickleton Hooter”.

Read More

S2E12 – Anansi the Spider & The Longridge Boggart with Athena Kugblenu

March 2019December 2024 Alasdair

Podcast: Download (Duration: 42:48 — 39.3MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

Comedian Athena Kugblenu joins the Loremen with a fable about a Ghanaian trickster. Meanwhile James takes Alasdair boggart-bowling in historic Lancashire.

Read More

S2E11 – The Cheshire Prophet & Hayfield Mermaids

February 2019December 2024 Alasdair 1 Comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 35:29 — 32.6MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

Two extraordinary tales from North West England. An ill-fated prophet prophet predicts the wholesale destruction of Northwich. Meanwhile, a lost story from series one re-emerges from the depths to drag you under.

Read More

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 64 65 66 … 69 Older posts

Welcome to Loremen

Loremen is a podcast about local legends and obscure curiosities from days of yore.

Join James Shakeshaft, Alasdair Beckett-King plus guest comedians and experts as we "investigate" forgotten folklore.

Support the Loremen on Patreon

Recent Episodes

Subscribe to Loremen

Apple PodcastsSpotifyYoutube MusicRSS

Follow the Loremen

  • YouTube
  • Bluesky
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Other Podcasts from the Loreboys

Rural Concerns
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That
  • YouTube
  • Bluesky
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
Copyright 2017. Theme by Colorlib Powered by WordPress