Episode 177 - LORE OF THE LAND: BRITISH ACADEMY

In May of 2025, I was honoured to be asked by the British Academy to chair the final panel in their 'Folklore Reimagined' series, 'Lore of the Land'. This panel was titled 'Stories of wetlands, woods and weather'. How have landscapes been represented and perceived throughout time? What do the stories we tell about our environments reveal about ourselves? And how can our historical relationship with the land help us reconsider our connection to the natural world today? The panelists for this discussion were Professor Melanie Giles FBA, British archaeologist specialising in Iron Age Britain; Fiona Stafford FBA, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford; and Marilina Cesario, Professor in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast. You can watch the original filmed panel on the British Academy's YouTube channel at The Folklore Podcast has been committed to producing high quality free folklore content for almost a decade, bringing you access to the world's experts in the subject. To help us to keep doing what we do, please consider supporting us with a small monthly subscription on our Patreon page, where you can find more subscriber-only content. Please visit and help to fund the podcast for the future.

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Episode 177 - LORE OF THE LAND: BRITISH ACADEMY is an episode from The Folklore Podcast by Mark Norman.

This episode is 1:11:37 long.

This episode was published on Sep 2, 2025.

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