The Three Ravens Podcast

It's the first time we've done a Seasonal Special in a while, but this week we're celebrating the harvest and exploring the history and folklore of Lughnasa and Lammastide. We beg…

In this month's update episode we're welcoming in the harvest and exploring some of August's lesser-known traditional festivals! We're talking about Marymas, which seems like it w…

On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with award winning singer-songwriter and progressive artist Richard Dawson. Hailing from England's northernmost city, Newcast…

We round out our recent completion of the Red Fairy Book by taking a deeper look at Leonora and Andrew Lang. Who were they, what were their lives like, and where did they fit into…

For our final episode of the series, we're casting a circle and exploring the life of the last great name in British magic, Gerald Gardner! We begin with Gardner's youth overseas…

On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with British author, LGBTQ+ historian, museum researcher and escape room artist Sacha Coward. Sacha's first book, Queer As Fol…

It's been a strange, charming, and sometimes baffling journey, but we've reached the end of the Red Fairy Book! Two very different stories finish the collection off. The Marvellou…

In this final episode of our 13-part exploration of folk music history we are concluding with Death and Afterlife Songs! We welcome our musical collaborators for the series Ben an…

On this week's episode of Local Legends Eleanor is chatting with the Fairy Whisperer, Karen Kay. Fairies are notoriously tricksy beings, but if there’s anybody out there with exac…

For our penultimate episode of the Red Fairy Book, we have a triple bill of rather different stories. First, we have one of the best known fairy tales out there - Snowdrop, otherw…

For the final episode in our 26 part A-Z of mythical creatures we're slipping into some liminal spaces to talk about Fairies! Starting with the question of what even is "a fairy"…

On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin is chatting with recovering Medievalist, occult bookshop owner, and esoteric researcher Christina Oakley Harrington! Growing up for…

This Norwegian tale from the Red Fairy Book features a plucky, diminutive hero so unscrupulous, he might just be worse than Dapplegrim! With trolls with increasing numbers of head…

For the last episode in the second series of Magic and Medicines, we're talking about Palmistry and Phrenology! We start by looking at uses of palmistry across the world, from Ved…

On this very special episode of Local Legends Martin is chatting with the brilliant British folk singer-songwriter Frankie Archer! To mark the release of her debut album, The Danc…

For today's episode of the Lang Fairy Tales, we're proceeding on apace through the Red Fairy Book, and we've got another double bill of stories. First up is the excellently named…

In this month's update episode we're chatting all about the folkiness of summertime - including Well Dressing and Rush Bearing! Though that's not all, as, in addition to sharing s…

This month on Magus, for our penultimate episode of the series, we're exploring the life and work of the father of Western esotericism, Cornelius Agrippa! Born into a Europe wrack…

For this episode, we go where no podcast has gone before - welcome to Three Ravens Live @ Great Dunmow BookFest! During a one day festival where an entire Essex town famous for gi…

On this week's Lang Fairy Tales episode we have another triple-bill - though these ones are all slightly wonky... We begin with Rapunzel, a tale with its roots in ancient Persian…