Podcast Series 1, Now Live

I have interspersed the conversations with some readings of traditional stories, poems and ballads, performed by the talented actor and medieval scholar Brian McMahon. Luckily Brian can read Middle English so he’s included some excerpts from medieval poems, trying to make them as easy to understand as possible. And we have also been able to include some of Fay’s music in each episode, by kind permission from Topic Records who have allowed us to use some bits of Sir Orfeo and Kemp Owen. There’s newly recorded music too from some of the other project artists.

The first podcast is as follows:

1. Introducing Fairies and Fairyland

2. Fairy Wives and Fairy Lovers

3. Helpful Fairies

4. Fairies and Children

5. Loathly Ladies

The next series will follow later this year and that will look at how the artists were inspired by the Fairy Folders and their contents to make astonishing new works: songs, music, poems, stories and illustrations.

Competition

Send us your answers to the following questions to be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of my book, The Land of the Green Man (which in some ways inspired this project). We'll draw a new winner from the hat at the end of the month.

1. What attracted you to this podcast?

2. What was the most interesting thing you discovered?

3. What type(s) of content would you like to hear about in Series 2?

We’d love to hear from what you think! Feel free to give us your answers on Twitter @Modern_Fairies or the project’s Facebook page.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Carolyne.