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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One week from right now Brother Bernard will he mid-flow telling Tales of Britain as part of the relaunched Bath Folk Festival! 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Fab Fools @fabfools.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy #FabFoolsFriday! Some exciting news for jocular Beatle fans around the world is in the offing… and we've upped our Midnight Mastermind Beatles comedy quiz from @OJBorg's Radio 2 show six years ago: youtu.be/br37mC8jfuQ – how many can you get? ✌🏾🎶🃏

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As this #FolkloreThursday is also the first day of 'Spooky Season', here's the creepy and tragic true Norfolk tale of BABES IN THE WOOD! Sadly, Wayland Wood makes nothing of its cultural history at all. @folklorethursday.bsky.social youtu.be/3TG_QeqYtvo?... 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚🌳👫🌳👻

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first #FolkloreThursday of autumn! Halloween is on the horizon, so let's explore the UK's most famous tale of witches and weirdness... MACBETH! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfS9... 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚👑🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️⚔️

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Tales of Britain: Macbeth and the Witches

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favourite time of year! (And some of my favourite witches!)

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Tales of Britain: Macbeth and the Witches

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I interviewed him 15 years ago via Skype for The True History of the Blackadder, and still feel the thrill, but last night in Tenbury Wells was the realisation of a barely-hoped-for dream: an electric evening with SIR Brian Blessed. Happy 90th, your majesty! “I LOVE MY WIFE!!!”

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We would just dearly like to thank David Walliams and JK Rowling for utterly ignoring every entreaty we sent them when looking for support, when we started out on Unbound. Any association with you right now would be utterly destroying. Bad enough we got a 'Good luck' from Gaiman!

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Fab Fools @fabfools.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy #FabFoolsFriday! If you haven't yet listened to the single best Beatles audiobook that will ever be created, that is your fault, but there is time to amend your error. FAB FOOLS: Listen today. audible.co.uk/pd/Fab-Fools... #Beatles #Rutles #Bonzos #MontyPython #Comedy ✌🏾🎶🃏

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A rollicking #FolkloreThursday to all! Here's a BRAND NEW tale-telling from Oxfordshire for you, knocked up in me shed – the story of the Norse Smithy Wayland! WAYLAND & FLIBBERTIGIBBET! youtu.be/Ddr0t5CQCV8?... 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚🔨

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TALES OF BRITAIN: Wayland & Flibbertigibbet

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sometimes I worry that all the Beatle fans worthy of the description have bought FAB FOOLS, the most entertaining Beatle book ever published… But then I realise that if they had, I'd be able to put food on my family's table, so they can't have.

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

10 days of summer left, but here's our seasonal blog this #FolkloreThursday! Comprises Shakespeare, Black Shuck, the Pedlar of Swaffham, Babes In The Wood, Beowulf, Conjuring Minterne, Blackadder, Albina, Brutus and… ROBERT PLANT! jemroberts.com/2026/09/09/t... 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

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TALES OF BRITAIN: Summer 2026

Gather ye round, all ye folktale-lovers, and hear the terribly interesting tale of your favourite comedy-historian-cum-folklorist’s summer holidays! Okay, so there was no grand British tour o…

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What I Did On Me Holidays

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TALES OF BRITAIN: Summer 2026

Gather ye round, all ye folktale-lovers, and hear the terribly interesting tale of your favourite comedy-historian-cum-folklorist’s summer holidays! Okay, so there was no grand British tour o…

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you enjoyed The Death Of Robin Hood, why not walk into your nearest butchers with your eyes very nearly closed and listen to all the chopping? For extra depth, you could half-read the first page of an old folktale before you go in.

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy #FolkloreThursday! Here behold ye the story of True Thomas, the Rhymer of Earlston! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B376... 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

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Tales of Britain: Thomas the Rhymer

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Tales of Britain: Thomas the Rhymer

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Happy #FolkloreThursday! Seen Death Of Robin Hood. It's almost entirely pitch-black screens and the sound of flesh being hacked, while Trump's pal Jackman growls in vague Northern. Ignores the real legend. Our, faithful, version is infinitely better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlSD...

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The Death of Robin Hood | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This #FolkloreThursday, we’re in Dorset, stomping up Maiden Castle: biggest Celtic hillfort in the world and scene of Merlin’s gruesome attempt to save Britain from the Saxons in Bernard Cornwell’s Arthurian novel series. (SPOILER: Merlin fails.) 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An unusual #FolkloreThursday offering this week – song, not tale. On Sunday, Robert Plant was at our Ludlow History show. When Dolly Parton asked him if she could cover his folklore-laced opus and add a verse, he replied "Of course you can – you're Dolly Parton." www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKD_... 🐉🩷

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Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven (Live)

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

UK people who call UK holidays "staycations" should be permanently exiled from the country.

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Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven (Live)

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ICYMI I HAVE PERFORMED FOR MR LED ZEPPELIN. AND YET HE HAS NEVER PERFORMED FOR ME. Stewart Lee is now demoted to second most famous person ever to appear in my audience.

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

‘The Folklore of British History’ and ‘Blackadder’s Britain’ were both sold out for the Ludlow History Festival today – and Brother Bernard just happened to perform an hour of folklore to lord of the manor Robert Plant… 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐍⚔️

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sun-bleached, but the point remains… this time tomorrow, at the Ludlow History Festival! #Folklore #Blackadder

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Book announcement! If it were done when 'tis done…

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As it's raining at last this #FolkloreThursday, here's Brother Bernard in Leicester to visit the site of KING LEIR's tomb! There'll be more on Leir, Bladud, Arthur, Rhiannon, Robin Hood and others at our Ludlow History Festival lecture this Sunday! youtu.be/Y3gTldXZid4?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

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Tales of Britain: LEICESTER

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Exploring more Dorset folklore this #FolkloreThursday: including the Batcombe church over which Conjuring Minterne took his mighty leap! (Mea culpa: there is no spire!) youtu.be/tAAcfPvsR_w?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚🔥🐎

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We also swung by this naughty stop on Jack the Giant Killer’s southwest tour. #FolkloreThursday #CerneAbbas

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Fab Fools @fabfools.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#FabFoolsFriday addendum: spent the day in SOOTY LAND, and saw the biography with George Harrison’s foreword in it! #Beatles #Sooty 🧸🪄🃏🎼✌🏽

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Greek myths are 100 a penny – we applaud Nolan's Odyssey for making gammon unhappy, but frankly it's a bit of a slog of a yarn, villainously over-told. The best thing to come out of the Trojan War is the British story of BRUTUS: youtu.be/iH6jOyfj5W8?... #FolkloreThursday 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Tales of Britain: Brutus: Land Ahoy!

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hail #FolkloreThursday! This week I finished writing MUSES OF FIRE, my new book/audiobook anthology of Shakespeare sources, out this autumn! So while on a Shakespeare bent, here's Brother Bernard on the Macbeth trail last summer… youtu.be/BfS9Yd0HjV4?... 👑📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏖️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️

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Tales of Britain: Macbeth and the Witches

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It’s been very remiss of us this #FollkloreThursdsy not to have toasted the life of Sam Neill – the single greatest Merlin on screen, stage, air or page. So here’s Queen Mab doing it: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐉🇳🇿

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The Death of Robin Hood | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Got some new shows in the offing for this here 2026... jemroberts.com/performing #History #Folklore #Folk #Comedy #Blackadder

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's still hot, it's #FolkloreThursday, here's a topping tale about Britain's greatest ever Bard, direct from a Pembrokeshire beach – WHAT, HO, TALIESIN! youtu.be/usvjkVScFuc?... #Folklore #Wodehouse #Jeeves 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏖️

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Tales of Britain: Taliesin 2 'What Ho, Taliesin!'

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Tales of Britain: Taliesin 2 'What Ho, Taliesin!'

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some shameless advertising for you this #FolkloreThursday, but lovers of folklore won't want to miss this first show for the brand new Ludlow History Festival – nor maybe the second! From Albina to Nessie, this is a must-see… ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk/show/the-fol... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#FolkloreThursday again already! Here's evidence of some of Brother Bernard's recent adventures in Norfolk and Suffolk! Black Shuck, Babes in the (Wayland) Wood, the Pedlar of Swaffham, and Sutton Hoo (Beowulf)! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

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Tales of Britain @talesofbritain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Intrigued to see that Robert Eggers’ Werewolf movie is being filmed all in Middle English. That’s what I’ve wanted to see for Robin Hood for years - the original Gests, no embroidery, presented fly-on-wall style with subtitles and extreme attention to period detail.

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