We're back in Ludlow this #FolkloreThursday, sizing up the likelihood of the Robin Hood legend, ROBIN'S ARROW! youtu.be/DqIrr3eHlnI?... 🏹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

We're back in Ludlow this #FolkloreThursday, sizing up the likelihood of the Robin Hood legend, ROBIN'S ARROW! youtu.be/DqIrr3eHlnI?... 🏹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

Happy #FolkloreThursday! Recorded in Inverness last summer, here’s our version of MACBETH AND THE WITCHES, complete with all the sites connected to the real King Macbeth… youtu.be/BfS9Yd0HjV4?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👑⚔️🧙🧙🧙

Happy #FolkloreThursday! Recorded in Inverness last summer, here’s our version of MACBETH AND THE WITCHES, complete with all the sites connected to the real King Macbeth… youtu.be/BfS9Yd0HjV4?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👑⚔️🧙🧙🧙

Merry #FolkloreThursday! Is it really over a year since Brother Bernard appeared on Susan Calman's Great British Cities, telling the tale of Bath-founder Bladud? Seems more like 10: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAkV... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

Merry #FolkloreThursday! Is it really over a year since Brother Bernard appeared on Susan Calman's Great British Cities, telling the tale of Bath-founder Bladud? Seems more like 10: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAkV... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

Merry #FolkloreThursday! 7 years ago, for the first release of the Tales of Britain book, Brother Bernard visited the glorious @cerysmatthews.bsky.social at Mrs BBC's Wogan House in That London, and shared some choice folktales: youtu.be/D-XQX62myps?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐉📚

Having indexed two of these – Soupy Twists! (on Fry and Laurie) and Fab Fools (on Beatles, Rutles and comedy) – I can vouch for their entertaining excellence. If you like this sort of thing too, give a follow to @jemroberts.bsky.social @fabfools.bsky.social @talesofbritain.bsky.social

Merry #FolkloreThursday! 7 years ago, for the first release of the Tales of Britain book, Brother Bernard visited the glorious @cerysmatthews.bsky.social at Mrs BBC's Wogan House in That London, and shared some choice folktales: youtu.be/D-XQX62myps?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐉📚

GLORIOUS NEWS this #FolkloreThursday! TALES OF BRITAIN IS BACK IN PRINT! jemroberts.com/2026/01/15/t... To celebrate, we're sharing an exclusive peek at unpublished folktale THE BIRTH OF ALBION, the REAL British origin story, with Princess Albina: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/awzae... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐉📚

With apologies for the sound quality, there's only one folktale to kick off 2026, relevant to the headlines – VENGEANCE WILL COME. And yes, it certainly will. #FolkloreThursday youtu.be/IOKADNl6hbY?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐉📚

With apologies for the sound quality, there's only one folktale to kick off 2026, relevant to the headlines – VENGEANCE WILL COME. And yes, it certainly will. #FolkloreThursday youtu.be/IOKADNl6hbY?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐉📚

Happy new year, and happy #FolkloreThursday! This village green wall in Twinhoe was created by joining up a stone circle. No known tale attached… but we could make one.

Happy new year, and happy #FolkloreThursday! This village green wall in Twinhoe was created by joining up a stone circle. No known tale attached… but we could make one.

Merry #FabFools Friday, nits! As it’s the last before Crimble, we have no shame in making this week a repeat – dai.ly/x55f6ek THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS CAROL is both the greatest thing made in the name of The Beatles since 1970, and the best version of the Scrooge story since 1843. Harry Crumble! ✌🏽🃏🎶🎄

Happy #FolkloreThursday! Hope to see all you folklore lovers at Castle Bookshop in Ludlow this Saturday afternoon for the ultimate seasonal folktale event! Books available! Honesty box office! Wrap up warm! #TalesofBritain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎄🎄🎄

Enjoying the Cbeebies Robin Hood pantomime. But I will be miffed if they don't honour the original gests, and have Robin decapitate Guy of Gisborne and shoot the Sheriff through the heart at the end.

LUDLOW FOLKIES! This Saturday afternoon! Honesty box office! Signed books available! The funniest, most festive British folktales reimagined for the 21st century! Wrap up warm, but SEE YOU THERE! WWW.TALESOFBRITAIN.COM

Only 9 days till Ludlow plays host to this year's festive folktale show! Here's our favourite Yule story, all about when the Christians hijacked our Winter Solstice – THE LAST YULE! #FolkloreThursday youtu.be/fKU11R8Rbok?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎄

Only a few weeks to our traditional live YULE SHOW! Let's keep in the festive mood this #FolkloreThursday with our retelling of the legend of the MARI LWYD! 🐴🦴❄️

Only a few weeks to our traditional live YULE SHOW! Let's keep in the festive mood this #FolkloreThursday with our retelling of the legend of the MARI LWYD! 🐴🦴❄️

24 years as Mayor of Nirvana-on-Heaven for George Harrison MBE. This is just a tribute: GIVE ME LOVE on.soundcloud.com/NtkuSM9p2Upc...

If you've ever enjoyed any of my audiobooks, can you let the world know with a short review, please? Too many psychos leaving their own ravings on them... www.audible.co.uk/search?searc...

Just a few weeks to our Ludlow Yule show at Castle Bookshop on Saturday 20/12! So here's a Hereford tale for #FolkloreThursday recorded on Robin Hoods Butt, right by Ludlow racecourse! KING HERLA'S STAG NIGHT! youtu.be/a9wb7Cg6WSQ?... 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Never mind this ersatz Wodehouse fan fiction – we now know that the Jeeves character predates PG Wodehouse by some centuries, he being a reincarnation of ancient Welsh Bard, Taliesin: youtu.be/usvjkVScFuc #FolkloreThursday 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Never mind this ersatz Wodehouse fan fiction – we now know that the Jeeves character predates PG Wodehouse by some centuries, he being a reincarnation of ancient Welsh Bard, Taliesin: youtu.be/usvjkVScFuc #FolkloreThursday 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

It won't be enough to destroy GBNews. Everyone connected to it will have to be imprisoned as a traitor to the country as well.

Near Ludlow this yuletide? Come to our festive folktale event, and buy a book to fill a stocking! As it's #FolkloreThursday, here's our Ludlow story, ROBIN'S ARROW: youtu.be/cbijZtvclP0?... And here's Brother Bernard at the actual Robin Hood's Butt! youtu.be/DqIrr3eHlnI?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏹

Near Ludlow this yuletide? Come to our festive folktale event, and buy a book to fill a stocking! As it's #FolkloreThursday, here's our Ludlow story, ROBIN'S ARROW: youtu.be/cbijZtvclP0?... And here's Brother Bernard at the actual Robin Hood's Butt! youtu.be/DqIrr3eHlnI?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏹

HELL IS MURKY this #FolkloreThursday, as Brother Bernard takes you on a tour of the Highlands, retelling the legend of his old mate MACBETH and the WITCHES! Lay on… jemroberts.com/2025/10/30/m... youtu.be/BfS9Yd0HjV4 #Halloween #Samhain #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑⚔️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️

We’ll use this #FolkloreThursday to say that yes, we are aware of these low-energy Royal Mint folklore coins, but they have enough of our money already. We also saw this very weird choice of beasts on an English Heritage kiddie challenge… They should have consulted a copy of Tales of Britain! 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

We’ll use this #FolkloreThursday to say that yes, we are aware of these low-energy Royal Mint folklore coins, but they have enough of our money already. We also saw this very weird choice of beasts on an English Heritage kiddie challenge… They should have consulted a copy of Tales of Britain! 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Why is it so literally impossible to make a good Robin Hood adaptation? Maid Marian & Her Merry Men remains the only half-decent version of the legend in about 70 years. And Alan Rickman's bits of Prince of Thieves. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

HAPPY HALLOWE'EN! Fair is foul, and foul is fair, as Brother Bernard shares his version of the legend of MACBETH AND THE WITCHES this soggy Samhain...

New story alert! MACBETH!* *(Hot potato, Oxon stalls, Puck will make amends, OW!)

HELL IS MURKY this #FolkloreThursday, as Brother Bernard takes you on a tour of the Highlands, retelling the legend of his old mate MACBETH and the WITCHES! Lay on… jemroberts.com/2025/10/30/m... youtu.be/BfS9Yd0HjV4 #Halloween #Samhain #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑⚔️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️

Contains no Jim Davidson!!

A sad and spooky Norfolk folktale for you as we creep towards Hallowe'en/Samhain: BABES IN THE WOOD. youtu.be/3TG_QeqYtvo?... #FolkloreThursday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚🌳👻👻🌳

A sad and spooky Norfolk folktale for you as we creep towards Hallowe'en/Samhain: BABES IN THE WOOD. youtu.be/3TG_QeqYtvo?... #FolkloreThursday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚🌳👻👻🌳

Having Merlin, Arthur and Lancelot all together in the same legend narrative is like a 3053 John Lennon biopic making John best mates with Churchill and in a love triangle with Batman.

Ramping up the spookiness as Samhain approaches, here's a visit to the site of BLACK VAUGHAN's exorcism in Kington: youtu.be/aApaOBkaans?... #FolkloreThursday #Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚👻🐕‍🦺🐂🪰

Ramping up the spookiness as Samhain approaches, here's a visit to the site of BLACK VAUGHAN's exorcism in Kington: youtu.be/aApaOBkaans?... #FolkloreThursday #Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚👻🐕‍🦺🐂🪰

Happy #FolkloreThursday! From our Tiktok collection, here's Brother Bernard visiting the landscape of the wonderful Welsh legend CADOC & THE MOUSE! www.tiktok.com/@talesofbrit... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐁

Happy #FolkloreThursday! From our Tiktok collection, here's Brother Bernard visiting the landscape of the wonderful Welsh legend CADOC & THE MOUSE! www.tiktok.com/@talesofbrit... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐁

Merry #FolkloreThursday! Here’s a whole bunch of folktales performed for BBC Bristol when the book first came out! Arthur, Merlin, Molly Whuppie, Bran the Blessed, they’re all here! youtu.be/4fXL3TFa45U?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

Merry #FolkloreThursday! Here’s a whole bunch of folktales performed for BBC Bristol when the book first came out! Arthur, Merlin, Molly Whuppie, Bran the Blessed, they’re all here! youtu.be/4fXL3TFa45U?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

10 years to the day since the first ever live Tales of Britain show! www.facebook.com/events/90553...

A brownie #FolkloreThursday to all! Here's a second call to enjoy THE BROWNIE OF BODESBECK, performed in Edinburgh, here in TikTok form, while TikTok is still even vaguely respectable. www.tiktok.com/@talesofbrit... CA' CUTTY CA'!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧚🏾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A brownie #FolkloreThursday to all! Here's a second call to enjoy THE BROWNIE OF BODESBECK, performed in Edinburgh, here in TikTok form, while TikTok is still even vaguely respectable. www.tiktok.com/@talesofbrit... CA' CUTTY CA'!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧚🏾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿