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'!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧚🏾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

• The #ISIHAC Bible 🎺 • The True History of the Blackadder ⚔️ • The Frood: Official Douglas Adams & H2G2 🤖 • #SoupyTwists: Official Fry & Laurie story 🍸 • #FabFools: The Beatles & The Rutles 🃏🎶 • @TalesofBritain.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 On paper & Audible: audible.co.uk/author/Jem-R...

A foul and fair #FolkloreThursday to all! Our Summer blog follows the MACBETH trail throughout Scotland – and takes in Loch Ness, The Kelpie of Loch Garve and Thomas the Rhymer as we go! #Folklore #Shakespeare jemroberts.com/2025/09/18/t... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Found a fairy ring, but sadly no sign of a faerie, goblin, dwarf, brownie, or sprite of any description.

Found a fairy ring, but sadly no sign of a faerie, goblin, dwarf, brownie, or sprite of any description.

Something wicked* this way comes! *In the 90s yoof sense.

A foul and fair #FolkloreThursday to all! Our Summer blog follows the MACBETH trail throughout Scotland – and takes in Loch Ness, The Kelpie of Loch Garve and Thomas the Rhymer as we go! #Folklore #Shakespeare jemroberts.com/2025/09/18/t... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Paying Rowling the slightest compliment may seem perverse in the extreme, but I do find myself quite awed at the woman's absolute commitment to 'the bit' every time she pops up to spread some hate, or quote Hitler. Does she employ a stylist specifically to give her the most clichéd Evil Queen look?

A good one for those who claim Joey Rowling invented everything, when she of course invented nothing besides her own brand of bigotry.

A tip-top sunshiny #FolkloreThursday to all! Here's a brand new performance of a wee tale from the Scottish borders, recorded in Edinburgh. Brownies have been around for many, many centuries! THE BROWNIE OF BODESBECK! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7cv... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧚🏾‍♂️

A tip-top sunshiny #FolkloreThursday to all! Here's a brand new performance of a wee tale from the Scottish borders, recorded in Edinburgh. Brownies have been around for many, many centuries! THE BROWNIE OF BODESBECK! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7cv... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧚🏾‍♂️

Old God found at Inverness Museum…

This is a historic #FolkloreThursday! Our sister book/audiobook, HISTORIES OF BRITAIN has launched! Read on to learn more about bringing back to life Caesar, Gildas, Bede and others… jemroberts.com/2025/09/04/h... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

This is a historic #FolkloreThursday! Our sister book/audiobook, HISTORIES OF BRITAIN has launched! Read on to learn more about bringing back to life Caesar, Gildas, Bede and others… jemroberts.com/2025/09/04/h... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Looks like a nice spot for a Tales of Britain gig.

There's nothing worse than chopping down an old oak tree and finding you've cut Merlin in half.

This #FolkloreThursday Brother Bernard is in Moray in the Highlands, on the trail of MACBETH AND THE WITCHES! Full report to follow… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑🏰⚔️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️

This #FolkloreThursday Brother Bernard is in Moray in the Highlands, on the trail of MACBETH AND THE WITCHES! Full report to follow… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑🏰⚔️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️

Thrice to mine, and thrice to thine, and thrice again to make up nine…

3PM TODAY! TALES OF BRITAIN AT THE EDINBURGH FREE FRINGE! THE OUTHOUSE, EH1 3LY! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐉

STILL IN EDINBURGH? 3pm tomorrow there’ll be a daft folktale from Scotland, Wales and England squeezed into the TALES OF BRITAIN slot at The Outhouse, Fringe venue 99. Honesty box office, books available! #folklore #edinburghfringe

EDINBURGH THIS SUNDAY 3PM! Tales of Britain will be on at THE OUTHOUSE! To celebrate our Scottish spree, here’s THE KINGDOM OF THE SEALS for #FolkloreThursday! youtu.be/08c2Aw7KRb0?... 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

EDINBURGH THIS SUNDAY 3PM! Tales of Britain will be on at THE OUTHOUSE! To celebrate our Scottish spree, here’s THE KINGDOM OF THE SEALS for #FolkloreThursday! youtu.be/08c2Aw7KRb0?... 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Author Jem Roberts performs his author event BLACKADDER TO BETELGEUSE for @LudlowFringe Sunday at 5pm – but may busk some Shropshire myths in Castle Square at 3 if anyone's there! Here's Ludlow yarn ROBIN'S ARROW to whet appetites! #FolkloreThursday www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbij... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Author Jem Roberts performs his author event BLACKADDER TO BETELGEUSE for @LudlowFringe Sunday at 5pm – but may busk some Shropshire myths in Castle Square at 3 if anyone's there! Here's Ludlow yarn ROBIN'S ARROW to whet appetites! #FolkloreThursday www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbij... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I just want Jimmy McGovern to write a modern version of Beowulf, in which Beowulf is a psycho Tommy Robinson-lover always having loud parties with his meathead mates, and Grendel and his mother are victimised outsiders new to the estate who dare to complain. Go to it, Jim.

This #FolkloreThursday, as I'm embarking on a brand new PG Wodehouse audio project, it seems timely to share my irresistible one-year-old mash-up of Jeeves & Wooster and The Mabinogion: WHAT HO, TALIESIN! youtu.be/usvjkVScFuc?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐉

This #FolkloreThursday, as I'm embarking on a brand new PG Wodehouse audio project, it seems timely to share my irresistible one-year-old mash-up of Jeeves & Wooster and The Mabinogion: WHAT HO, TALIESIN! youtu.be/usvjkVScFuc?... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐉

The East Anglian spider on CBeebies' 'Playtime Towers' makes me fear that my Norfolk burr needs some work. Still, here it is in local legend THE PEDLAR OF SWAFFHAM! youtu.be/Z9XLVZPUc14?... #FolkloreThursday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐉