We often make media appearances to discuss folklore or aspects of the project, but confine this page to recorded audio, video and articles that can easily be found, as well as project-related books. Most items listed below have links, so you can check them out in a few clicks.
Audio/video
Anna discusses the famous tale and set of traditions regarding Tiddy Mun, the draining of the Ancholme Carrs and Fens, and the adoption of the story in other parts of the country, in this episode of BBC Secret Lincolnshire (June 2025).
Rory talks about the legend of the Wild Man of Stainfield, where it came from, and its historic legacy, in this episode of BBC Secret Lincolnshire (June 2025).
A 90-minute and (we promise) entertaining interview with both Rory and Anna, conducted by Martin Vaux of the Three Ravens podcast. Martin is a superb interviewer and we discuss all manner of things, mostly related to folklore! You can listen to the episode here (or on all major platforms).
Rory and Anna contribute to this Lincs-focused episode of The Three Ravens podcast (May 2025). This episode also includes a retelling of the story of Nanny Rutt by Eleanor Conlon. You can listen to the full episode here (or on all major podcast platforms).
Rory talks about the legend of King Oswald at Bardney Abbey, first recorded by the Venerable Bede in 731AD, in this episode of BBC Secret Lincolnshire (May 2025).
In autumn 2024, with our project partners Adverse Camber and the storyteller Pyn Stockman, we spent time at Skegness Junior Academy, Dunston St. Peter’s Primary School, and St. Mary’s Primary School in Brigg, where children developed original stories from folk tales and performed them! Listen here to these three short podcasts, which include special renditions recorded for audio.
Over the summer of 2024, with our project partners Adverse Camber, the storyteller Pyn Stockman, and a star supporting cast including the folklorist Maureen James and the storyteller Thor Ewing, we worked with young people to develop stories, culminating in a folk tale storytelling performance at Southside, Lincoln. Listen to the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Summer Schools Podcast here!
Rory talks about the legend of the Metheringham Lass, and its dubious origin myth, on this episode of BBC Radio’s Secret Lincolnshire series (June 2024).
Rory discusses the legend of the Vanished Bugler of Kirkstead Abbey in this episode of BBC’s Secret Lincolnshire (September 2024).
Rory and Anna explore their favourite Lincolnshire folk tales and customs with Mark Norman, on the Folklore Podcast. May 2024.
Books and articles
Anna Milon and Rory Waterman (eds), Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined (Five Leaves Publications, February 2025). This book contains contributions from 15 Lincolnshire-based writers, all reinterpreting Lincolnshire folk tales, plus a detailed set of gloss notes from the editors. More info/order here.
Rory Waterman, Come Here to This Gate (Carcanet Press, April 2024). Rory’s fourth poetry collection includes several versions of Lincolnshire folk tales set in the modern world, written as ballads. More info/order here.
ARTICLES:
Rory writes about the origins, and literary variations, of perhaps Lincoln’s most famous legend in ‘Tales of the Lincoln Imp’, in the March 2025 issue of Lincolnshire Life.
This BBC article discusses ways in which ‘The BBC’s Secret Lincolnshire podcast has been seeking the answers’ to local riddles, and leads with Rory’s discussion of a subterranean passage at Kirkstead Abbey. December 2024.
Anna discusses Joan, Margaret and Philip Flower – ‘the Witches of Belvoir’ – and how their horrifying story entered folklore, with a coda on Thomas Heywood, in this blog post for her alma mater, The University of Exeter. October 2024.
Anna writes about the horrible practice of rantanning – shaming people by banging pots and pans – in the October 2024 issue of Lincolnshire Life. Has it really died out, or just gone digital?
Rory and Anna introduce work by five authors included in the forthcoming anthology Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined (Five Leaves, 2025) – Nick Triplow, Alison Brackenbury, John Gallas, Jane Simmons and Robert Etty – in the autumn 2024 issue of Lincolnshire Poacher. Nick’s two-part story is concluded in the winter issue.
Rory discusses the folkloric inspiration behind a poem in his recent poetry collection, Come Here to This Gate (Carcanet, 2024). The post, ‘Yallery Brown is Back!’, is available on the Carcanet Blog here. April 2024.
Rory takes readers on a folkloric travel route around an overlooked part of Lincolnshire in ‘Ghosts, Witches, and Wild Men in the Valley’ for Lincolnshire Life magazine. Read the full piece here. April 2024.
OTHER MEDIA APPEARANCES:
BBC Look North, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, LCR FM, etc.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 
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