Seriously, thank you to our keen listener. The copy of Episode 3, Bres the Beautiful,  on the server has somehow become corrupted and only the first half played. We have now replaced it with a brand new, shiny Episode 3 and want to apologise to all of our very confused listeners wondering what happened between this point and Episode 4!

A concert of Robin & Bina’s original and traditional pieces from Celtic, Indian, Old Timey and English roots – on harp, bowed-psaltery and other instruments – and featuring the East West harmonies of Robin and Bina’s voices.

After the Incredible String Band, and all the other projects they have been involved in as a duo and individually over the past years, Robin and Bina have put together something completely new..

Performing and recording since the 1990s, their songs and music feature the evocative East-West harmonies of their voices with harp, percussion and other instruments in a style described recently as Indo-Celtic-Delta.

Avalonia tells us that:

The raw, ancient and primordial force symbolised by horns has long had associations with mystery, magick and power. Our ancestors often envisaged their gods as anthropomorphic beings who encapsulated this wild essence. Today the gods of the bull, the ram, goat and stag still hold tremendous power and are invoked at rituals by a new priesthood who continue to seek the wildness of nature and the inspiration that it holds. These deities transcend the safe and known boundaries of human structure, sometimes even luring us across the threshold of the known into the unknown worlds.

This unique anthology brings together the work of more than twenty dedicated scholarswith that of modern day mystics. Through their written and artistic contributions they illustrate just some of the many manifestations of the Horned God.

Synopsis

With his dying breath, King Arthur asks the young Galahad to seek out the Holy Grail. His last hope? That the Grail’s discovery might save the war-ravaged Kingdom from destruction. But as Galahad’s epic journey unfolds, the quest for this holy and mysterious object leads him down unexpected new paths, as he finds his first love, his long-lost father Lancelot, and seeks to prove himself as a knight.

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His dragon-slaying heroics have kept his legend alive through the centuries.

But the Church of England is considering rejecting England’s patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims.

Clergy have started a campaign to replace George with St Alban, a Christian martyr in Roman Britain.

The scheme, to be considered by the Church’s parliament, the General Synod, has met a cautious but sympathetic response from senior bishops.

The proposal has been put forward by the Rev Philip Chester, vicar of St Matthew’s, Westminster, who has called the use of St George as patron saint ‘dotty’.

His call for a change is based on the lack of firm historical evidence that George – said to be a Roman general from the 4th century AD who was put to death by Emperor Diocletian for professing Christianity – ever existed.

Centuries pass in the blink of an eye and the Realm of Erin is in the hands of the Tuatha De Danaan, the Children of Danu. This episode starts with a mysterious vision and then goes on to tell us how the descendants of the Old Gods make a disastrous mistake…

The Episode is available for subscribers on the feed, or you can download it or listen to it from our Episodes page. You can find the Shownotes for this episode in the Shownotes section.

The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney is the third largest stone circle in the British Isles, but little is known about it.

Strathclyde’s Boyd Robertson, convener of the Faclair na Gaidhlig project steering group, commented ahead of the launch of a business plan for it.

This is a blog by Kirsten Campbell, a student of Archaeology and Celtic Civilisation with a gift for the creative.  Kirsten is an aspiring writer of historical fiction and here she speculates about the possibilities of ancient prosthetics – artificial limbs. Her home on the web is Kirsten’s Scribbling Corner.

“Lip service was paid to archaeology, but archaeologists were used to destroy our heritage,” said Ms Ronayne. “From the point of view of archaeology, the route chosen by the NRA was the least desirable, and other routes were not properly considered because they were not profitable for developers.”