Late Night Sleep Radio – Details, episodes & analysis

Sleepy Folklore: Whitsun Ales, Oak Apples, Hay Meadows and Dreamy Snoozy Snuffly Sleep Talk. Remember the point is there is no point. Idle, ramble, sleep, snooze, dream. That's it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ascension Day Customs, Beating The Bounds in Oxford, a Bit of Dunting in Northumberland, Old Man’s Beard and Onions and a bedtime story: King Conchobhar of Ulster and and King Arthur and Merlin too. Sleep, doze, dream. Nothing's more important than a good kip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let me talk you to sleep. We talk about St Bartholemew's Eve and fair and Burning Bartle. We talk about Cannock Chase and its monsters and iron age fort. We read another episode of the Poisoned Rose and I recite the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in its entirety. All to get you to fall alseep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let me talk you to sleep. This episode contains musings on Damsons, a tomb in a London churchyard, Hermitage Castle in Roxburghshire, Alderley Edge and Alan Garner, Cheshire in general and some legends of Congleton in particular. Some more of the bedtime story The Poisoned Rose when things become a bit more sinister. A eulogy for Fiddlers Green, A Peculiar Parish Magazine, Some summer poems by Edward Thomas, Philip Larkin, a reading of the lyrics of Velvet Green by Jethro Tull and finished with some verses from Gray’s Elegy Written In A County Churchyard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two hours of meandering, including a talk about Lammas or Lughnasadh, a reading from The Hobbit. A bedtime story (The Poisoned Rose), a discussion about the hauntings of Clapham Wood in Sussex and general sleepy-time chit chat. Let me talk you to sleep! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In which we talk about Armada Day, the British Pilgrimage Trust, boots versus shoes, foraging elderflower, the Poisoned Rose and the strange haunting of Clapham Wood in Sussex. We mention Mushroom Steve, canals, mushrooms, dogs and whistles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we discuss Rush Bearing as Custom of the Day. In legend of the Week we look at the Irish gods. There's some Wordsworth and Yeats at the end and in the middle of that is me wondering about the benefits of walking and honouring your ancestors. The bedtime story is part one of The Poisoned Rose by Tony Walker. We also present 'Natural Pigments' and talk about if they are any good. I forgot to mention that Art Shop in Appleby which makes its own natural pigments. Here are the links to the books discussed in the episode: https://www.ghostpod.org/2023/07/12/late-night-sleep-radio-episode-6/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After half a year, back with more sleepy whimsy from the British Isles. We have Custom of the Day, Legend of the Week, Bedtime Story and some good old meandering chat. Intended for you to fall asleep to. More wholesome than any sleeping pill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Episode 4 of Late Night Talk Radio with Tony Walker.  In this episode we discuss eating things you find in the countryside, how cow urine is bad for archaeology, veganism and oak trees, that fact that Englishness has nothing to do with your race, how come young women are called girls, the origin of fields, some ghostly happenings at Hinton Manor, a quick trip to Lud in The Mist, Dog Whipping Day (deplorable) and why spiders deserve their best life. All designed to get you to sleep. And if it doesn't you can always listen to another episode or this one again. Books Quoted in This Episode. If you enjoy the show, please support me by clicking these affiliate links. Mo Wilde: The Wilderness Cure https://amzn.to/3VdjLVD Julia Boyd : A Village in The Third Reich https://amzn.to/3rIAbI1 Anita Sethi: I Belong Here https://amzn.to/3ef2ZF7 The English Year by Steve Roud https://amzn.to/3VhkXaE The English Ghost by Peter Ackroyd https://amzn.to/3CoI36j England In Particular by Common Ground https://amzn.to/3MjaO97 Lud in The Mist by Hope Mirrlees https://amzn.to/3CpHgSZ Behold, This Dreamer! by Walter de la Mare https://amzn.to/3RXbanm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A soothing talk to keep you company through the dark hours of the night and to help you sleep. Tony rambles about Glastonbury, growing apple pips, Nottingham Goose Fair, losing his tripod on Cannock Chase while in search of werewolves, the legend of Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest. The fairytale of the Maid of Llyn y Fan Fach in Breconshire. The importance of knowing which county you are in and a reading of Edward Thomas's wanderings through the March woods. Perfect to doze off to. If you don't get to sleep play it again, or listen to another episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices