Late Night Talk Radio: Recent Episodes
John Anthony Walker
A smorgasbord of calming softly-spoken talk broadcast from rural England. One man chat about foraging, legends, customs with a bedtime story all designed to keep you company through the small dark hours of the night and ease you off to sleep
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I talk extensively about the Abbots Bromley Horn dance and its origins lost deep in time, a bit about foraging, some recorded on location snippets from the Oxford Canal, the penultimate episode of the bedtime story The Poisoned Rose and a meditation on Tom Bombadil (sort of, it's a poem really). A long episode, ideal for you to snooze to.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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/
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.
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.
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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.
Another late night ramble which include some thoughts on colour-blind foraging for berries and its drawbacks, custom of the day which is about the ancient (actually not so ancient) game of conkers or conquerors, how the devil gets into blackberries. The legend of the week, which is about the Radiant Boy of Knebworth House and Crazy Lord Castlereagh and Edward Bulwer-Lytton who was only slightly less crazy. Bedtime story which is chapter 2 of The Midnight Folk by John Masefield. Some words by J R R Tolkein about Tom Bombadil, the Night Mail by W H Auden and a little sleepy snoozy time with wave noises. If this doesn't get you off to sleep then you probably already are. But if this isn't long enough play it again. I'm not expecting you to pay attention :)
Late night talk radio is a one man chat designed to get you off to sleep, or keep you company through the wee small hours of the dark night. Soft-spoken British male voice, which is not ASMR as it has no mouth sounds, but is unintentional ASMR as it is relaxing, calming and you may be interested in what to forage in the British countryside, legend of the week: this time it is the Black Dog that haunts Suffolk and other counties, custom of the day which is the Crab Apple Fair at Egremont, a bedtime story: The Midnight Folk by John Masefield, a sleep meditation on water sounds and finally the long-range shipping forecast.
A smorgasbord of calming softly-spoken talk broadcast from rural England.