Podcast Episodes

Bonny Bona of the Great North Road

Season 6 Episode 30

Buff the buckles on your shoes and ready your bodices for ripping. James has plucked a tale of betrayal and romance from the annals of Yorkshire legend.

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Published on 12 hours ago

The Cholsey Poltergeists

Season 6 Episode 29

Polterguys are back! As are Alasdair and James! After a wee August break, the Loreboys return with some noisy sprits from a disputed corner of Oxfordshire. Listen carefully and you might just learn s…

Published on 1 week ago

Summer Bonus 2025

The boys are on holiday, so this episode is pure "bants". Enjoy a selection of bonus bits from our recent episodes and take care out there, kids.

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Published on 2 weeks ago

Edward Mordake and Herne the Hunter

Season 6 Episode 28

Join Alasdair and James in a not-at-all dank Oxford cellar, as part of the Oxford Comedy Festival. The boys meet a hornéd hunter and a two-faced Edward: legends who left the pages of literature and e…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Banbury!

Season 6 Episode 27

James takes Alasdair back to the Croydon of the Cotswolds™ - Banbury! - for a deep-dive into the origins, variations and possible meanings of the town's "famous" nursery rhyme. You know, the one with…

Published on 4 weeks ago

The King Hare

Season 6 Episode 26

James is joined by Dave Warneke of the podcasts Do Go On and Book Cheat to hear about one of the UK's breaking (and bounciest) cryptids.

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Published on 1 month ago

Loremen S6Ep25 - The Cauldknockle Haunting

Looking for a tale to warm your knockles? If so, you've come to the wrong place! Alasdair's North Country legend will make your knockles chillier than ever. You're gonna wish you'd invested in 8 tiny…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Loremen S6Ep24 - The Figure on the Stairs

Welcome to Sydenham, but be warned — this ain't your grandma's Sydenham. It's more likely to be your great-great grandma's Sydenham.

James takes Alasdair to a tumbledown cottage on a moonlit night, …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Loremen S6Ep23 - Stone Watch 2025

James takes Alasdair on a whistle-stop tour of Britain's mobile stones, as catalogued in Janet and Colin Bord's The Secret Country. These standing stones were made for walking, and that's just what t…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Ghosts of 50 Berkeley Square, London

Season 6 Episode 22

In the midst of a heatwave, James brings the temperature down with the chilling tale of a ghost named Bloody Bones. The loreboys visit the most notorious haunted house in London. It's the Victorian e…

Published on 2 months ago