S4 Ep14: Loremen S4 Ep 14 - The Simonside Duergar
Episode Date: September 22, 2022Beware traveller! For Northumberland's Simonside Hills are the setting for this week's tale. Those rugged crags are thick with evil, evil creatures wh...
Join the Loremen (James Shakeshaft and Alasdair Beckett-King) as they "investigate" local legends and forgotten folklore.
279 episodes transcribedBeware traveller! For Northumberland's Simonside Hills are the setting for this week's tale. Those rugged crags are thick with evil, evil creatures wh...
James introduces Alasdair to the original prankster himself, Oliver Cromwell! Legendarily one of history's great monsters, Cromwell was actually very...
Having come into the possession of certain manuscripts on North American lore, James Shakeshaft whisks you off to Spokane in Washington State. Suppose...
Alasdair is back! But literally only just so we are not back up to full speed yet. Hence the minisode. Plus we have some unfinished business to take...
Alasdair Beckett-King sends an audio postcard from Scotland's own Edinburgh. What does he get up to between shows? Find out here!
A VERY SPECIAL GUEST HOST THIS WEEK Who you might recognise.... Yeah you know him, off YouTube and Mock the Week and podcasts and what nots. And we...
Jenny Collier steps into the co-host chair and we have a Loremen FIRST - a sequel! What happened to Maxen Wledig after he travelled to Wales to find t...
A special guest CO-HOST this week! Fan favourite Chris Cantrill (The Delightful Sausage) is BACK and he has a great story all about an ill-fated Cumb...
In the smoking room of the Loregentleman’s Club, Mr James Shakeshaft puffed on his pipe with a look of consternation. He found the silence intolerabl...
Hop in James's childhood car (a Mazda 323) and take a trip to Burford, jewel of the Cotswolds. Home of the Burford Garden Centre, Cotswold Wildlife Pa...
Is this our rudest episode title yet? Cock Lane is a small street in the City of London, infamous for not having a ghost in it. Alasdair introduces Ja...
The Loremen lived again! James tells our live studio audience a tale stretching all the way from the Peak District to the good ol' US of America. This...
Due to an administrative error - this is a solely Shakeshaft minisode. But he gets through a LOT of admin. In the end. Stone Stakeout Quantum Mechani...
Alasdair brings out the big Scottish guns: Ranald McDanald AND Donald McRonald and shares the tales of two Scotsmen who fought on opposing sides at th...
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The Stone of Destiny, AKA the Stone of Scone, has been stolen more times than Alasdair has had cold Scottish dinners. In this episode we uncover a dar...
It's season four of Loremen! It's 4oremen. 4men? Either way, we're one man short of opening a profitable burger chain. And it's time for William Adams...
Content warning - we say "willy" a LOT In 1600, William Adams was the first Englishman to visit Japan. Little was known about Japan at that time, apa...
Seaton Delaval Hall was once home to Sir Francis Blake Delaval - the man who puts the "pranks" in "I am sick of this guy's terrible pranks". But, alth...
The Loreboys share two legends from the other side of the extremely big pond (the Atlantic). Shakeshaft goes west to Yosemite National Park and encoun...