

Loremen Podcast
Loremen Podcast
Join the Loremen (James Shakeshaft and Alasdair Beckett-King) as they "investigate" local legends and forgotten folklore.
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Apr 14, 2022 • 36min
S3 Ep104: Loremen S3 Ep104 - The Legend of Maud's Elm, Cheltenham
Alasdair brings James the "pathetic" legend of Maud's (or Maude's) Elm, a story as thrilling as it is obviously made up. You've got your heroines: tragic. Your lords: wicked. Your uncles: damnable!
Plus, someone's dear old mum will be cast out into the street. And we're talking olden days streets here, so that's 80% poo. Listeners will also discover who really killed Tsar Nicholas I, and what size of potato was considered noteworthy in the mid-19th century.
(Spoiler alert: it wasn't that big.)
Content warning: references to murder and suicide.
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Apr 7, 2022 • 23min
S3 Ep103: Loremen S3 Ep103 - Dame Creswyke's Spectre, Moreton-in-Marsh
Welcome to the Loremen Guesthouse! Join us in the lounge for the bite-sized tale of Dame Creswyke: a restless spirit who has more than outstayed her welcome at one Moreton-in-Marsh hotel.
We do hope you enjoy your room. A traybake breakfast is served 7-9, all our ghosts are en suite, and if you require a wake-up call, someone will yell "QUOZ!"
Now settle down on that denim pillow... and relax.
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Mar 31, 2022 • 27min
S3 Ep102: Loremen S3 Ep102 - The Wells of St Walstan, Norfolk
James brings Alasdair a piece of Norfolklore... It's the story of St Walstan, a monk who was mates with a pair of oxen who had magic wee wee.
Can you come down with lockdown fever outside of a lockdown? Have Alasdair and James drunk from St Walstan's well? Are you sure that's water?!
This episode was livestreamed, so check out youtube.com/loremenpodcast
It won't make any more sense, but it'll be longer.
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Mar 24, 2022 • 10min
Breaking the Lore 02
Two BIG bits of Lore Breaking this week.
Return to Yorkshire Atlantis and actual BREAKING lore news from Japan
But it is all a ruse to advertise the livestream tonight (24 March at 830pm GMT)
*Update*
It's happened now!
Rewatch it here
https://youtu.be/g0ZnFR3e77I
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Mar 17, 2022 • 40min
S3 Ep101: Loremen S3 Ep101 - Seán Burke - St Columba and the Monster
Happy St Patrick's Day! To celebrate, we tell the monster-packed tale of Ireland's rival patron, St Colmcille (aka St Columba). Joining us is the frankly hilarious Seán Burke, an actual Irish comedian, who is remarkably forgiving about the Lorebois Irish-ish accents.
Pronunciation fans will be overjoyed to learn we say "rhododendron" no less than 4 different ways during the episode.
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Mar 10, 2022 • 50min
S3 Ep100: Loremen S3 Ep100 - Danny Robins - The Cauld Lad of Hylton
The Loremen are joined by supernatural pod king* Danny Robins! Danny is the voice behind Haunted, The Battersea Poltergeist and Uncanny, as well as being an award-winning playwright. And he brings James and Alasdair a little-known North-Eastern legend: The Cauld Lad of Hylton. Was the Cauld Lad a ghost? A sprite? A murder victim? Or just an annoying guy who didn’t know how ducks work?
Darting between Newcastle and Sunderland, we also encounter a somewhat smutty version of the Fish and the Ring, and a carefully censored account of Pollard’s Boar.
*He’s king of supernatural podcasts NOT king of the pod people.
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Mar 3, 2022 • 38min
S3 Ep99: Loremen S3 Ep99 - Talking Heads
Since the dawn of time, humanity has dreamed of one thing: making a little robot head that talks in a funny voice. Alasdair and James chart the history of that dream, from Friar Bacon's diabolical brazen head to Professor Faber's ill-fated "Euphonia". With more body-horror than you would normally expect in an audio-based medium, it's the story of some of the strangest head-cases England has ever seen.
Check out the full livestream on YouTube to hear from a mechanical man of our own creation - we call him Neal Iron...
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Feb 24, 2022 • 12min
Breaking the Lore 01
Ahead of tonight's Livestream
(Update this has happened now...
https://youtu.be/qlnDKuUR43Y)
The LoreBois round up all the breaking Lore in a new segment - Breaking the Lore!
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Feb 17, 2022 • 34min
S3 Ep98: Loremen S3 Ep98 - The Curse of the Silk Shoes
The boys hit the road (and rail replacement bus service) and made their way to the East Midlands, for the Leicester Comedy Festival. Whereupon, James regaled Alasdair and a live audience with a local tale. It's the story of a devilishly handsome gentleman and a pair of silk shoes that are very much house shoes. As in, if you take them out of the house... you die.
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Feb 10, 2022 • 37min
S3 Ep97: Loremen S3 Ep97 - Jenny Collier - The Dream of Maxen Wledig, Valentine's Special
Why, it's Valentine's times again! (Valentimes.) The Loremen welcome Welsh Romance correspondent Jenny Collier back to the show, with tales of kings, prophetic dreams and gold. Gold. GOLD!
Too much gold? Maaaybe, yeah. This episode will also furnish you with a brand new euphemism for the downstairs area, and tell you where to buy the best horse bum leather.
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