S5E55 – Ghosts of the Road with Hayley Stevens October 2024October 2024 Alasdair Podcast: Download (Duration: 42:18 — 58.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSThe Loremen are live at QED festival with ghost hunter Hayley Stevens. Plus roadside ghosts and road-adjacent spectres. Read More
S4E54 – The Tanuki with Yuriko Kotani August 2023August 2024 Alasdair Podcast: Download (Duration: 40:22 — 37.1MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSYuriko returns to tangle with the tanuki (or racoon dog), a cheeky creature with a lot of… chutzpah. Read More
S4E47 – Scams in Old Time Japan June 2023August 2024 Alasdair Podcast: Download (Duration: 39:14 — 36.0MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSScams and swindles from Edo period Japan, featuring a bucket of fish-guts and a red-faced demon (literally and figuratively). Read More
S4E1 – William Adams, The First Englishman in Japan (Part 2) June 2022August 2024 Alasdair Podcast: Download (Duration: 38:55 — 35.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSSeries four opens with the final chapter in William Adams’s tale. Enter the East India Company and a very annoying maritime pornographer. Read More
S3E107 – William Adams, The First Englishman in Japan (Part 1) May 2022August 2024 Alasdair Podcast: Download (Duration: 50:54 — 46.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSThe meandering, misbegotten sea voyage of William Adams, the first Englishman to visit Japan. Read More
