This episode we have a delightful Fairy Tale.
With fairies, castles, witches, princesses and princes, step mothers and ugly step sisters (alignments to be revealed), lots of things done in threes, and body horror that's positively Cronenbergesque.
This episode is the first of two looking at some legends from the nearly 2000 year old city of Manchester. We have two stories - In the first there’ll be some pleasing names, that folklore necessary liminality and ill-advised ways to win a woman...
Walter Map’s charming little tale of a Princess, ambition, obsession, one of the most taboo acts known to humanity, an unlikely weapon from an unlikely source and, of course, shoes.
Warning: this is a very Not Safe For Work story
A Knight! A dark and stormy night! A Castle! A quest! A hot headed wizard! A damsel, probably in distress! Northumberland!
What more could you possible want?
Two part Branch two of the Mabinogion: Giants, Magic, Marriage, necromancy, war, peace, horses, housing, birds, feasts. It really has it all!
This episode we've got three short stories of Stone circles.
There's the lasting consequences of poor wedding planning, there's a beautiful view ruined and there's a remote island community in midsummer, with cuckoos. (No, not that one).
A Cornish tale with ghosts, pirates, murder witches and even an enchanter, eventually.
What more could you realistically want?
This episode concludes our look at some stories from the biggest smokes of biggest smoke - London. This time there are three stories of residents of the city: an entrepreneur who dares to think outside the box, a property developer with an unpaid...
This time we've a Scottish fairy tale, name checked by none other than J.R.R. Tolkien. It features a whole lot of threes, an Epic Battle (off camera), a very valuable apple (no Steve Jobs required) and a fast and loose attitude to tying up narrative...
Not strictly about Halloween but does feature a host of seasonal favourites: Black magic, dismembered body parts, murder and a pug.