The non-human world, in it’s many guises, can often be a place where we face our fears. Recorded in Cambridge at Mill Road Cemetery and the 12th century Leper Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, this episode features an interview with Robert Lloyd Parry, an outstanding performance storyteller, who specialises in classic literary ghost fiction, in particular the work of Montague Rhodes James.
We explore Fear: as a human adaptation; as a heightened sense; as a part of our experience in the wild; as something ‘unnatural’; or something we experience in solitude; and how we experience it in our sense of familiar and unfamiliar places.
We would like to thank our wonderful guest Robert Lloyd Parry. To discover more about him visit http://www.nunkie.co.uk
Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:
Arthur Machen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Machen
The Cruel Mother https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruel_Mother
Malcolm Sinclair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Sinclair_(actor)
Julian Hoffman https://julian-hoffman.com/irreplaceable/
Ray Bradbury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury
Kenneth Grahame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Grahame
Robert Macfarlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Macfarlane_(writer)
M R James https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James
A Warning to the Curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Warning_to_the_Curious
Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Oh,_Whistle,_and_I%27ll_Come_to_You,_My_Lad%27
Cambridge Leper Chapel https://www.cambridgeppf.org/Pages/Category/cambridge-leper-chapel
Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Alberic%27s_Scrap-Book
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