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The Ghosts of Finchale Priory
James and Alasdair meet a retired pirate experiencing a self-imposed male loneliness crisis. Starting in the ruins of Finchale Abbey, we travel back to a time before the monastery was built (don’t look for it, it’s not there yet) and meet the notorious Saint Godric.
This burly old hermit had a very hot & cold relationship with animals and would go to extraordinary lengths to impress the ladies. Well, one particular lady – Our Lady.
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Credits:
The Loremen are Alasdair Beckett-King & James Shakeshaft.
Edited by Laurence Hisee.
Featured image from an engraving by James Sparrow in The Antiquities of England and Wales, Francis Grose, 1782.
Music from La Lettre De Manon Valse played by Megone’s Orchestra, 1905.