Tales From The Barn

Tales From The Barn

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Follow Graham, who moved from the Black Country to Wales, with musings from his barn.

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    • May 17, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 8m AVG DURATION
    • 25 EPISODES


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    #25 Power of Words

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 9:13


    Faith, spirit and the meaning of words....

    #24 Shapes of Compassion

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 8:57


    The great of the good and compassion and local legend Frank Foley.

    #23 Grannie Knows Best.....

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 8:14


    Ada Isabel Jones - the Black Country Grannie who knows best in the podcast episode.....

    #22 Goodbye Ol' Friend

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2020 8:27


    The words of goodbye....

    #21 On The Prowl

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2020 9:26


    Entrepreneurs of the 19th Century combustion engine.....

    #20 Lamps and lenses

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2019 8:26


    Water - inland waterways and high seas....

    #19 A cold snap

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2019 8:27


    If mankind doesn't mend its ways......

    #18 Turrets and thimbles

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2019 8:54


    #17 Hafren and Vaga

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2019 9:10


    Proximity and closeness are not necessarily the same when it comes to our water highways.

    #16 Backward and forward

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2019 8:24


    Backward and forward - the waterways

    #15 Above and Beyond

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2019 9:12


    It may be too wet and too cosy - time to go Above and Beyond

    #14 Cash for Coal

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2019 8:47


    How coal and cash make a mint.

    #13 Rock of Ages

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2019 8:36


    Layer of layer of soft porous stone........ the foundations of the Black Country.

    #12 Dead or Alive

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2019 8:24


    Graham muses continue with a look back at look back at Stourbridge Glass may not be so 'dead' after all...

    #011 Accident or Design

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 8:43


    So do you become 'you' become accident or design? Graham discusses.....

    #010 What’s In A Name?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2019 8:35


    The distinctive Black Country identity and its flag define us, but why does it matter? Perhaps our friends 'across the pond' can offer a clue.

    #009 Dark Skies

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2019 8:56


    It can get very dark indeed in the Welsh borders. But there are those who use it to good effect.

    #008 Word Of Mouth

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2019 8:55


    Words, words and more words. And the Master of Words himself once walked amongst us in the Black Country.

    #007 Down The Brook

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2019 8:42


    The River Stour has flowed through the Black Country for thousands of years and was its backbone in the early days of industrialisation. But does its name hold Celtic origins?

    #006 Drawing The Line

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2019 8:22


    Ley lines and other unexplained 'earth mysteries' - might we all be bound in some way by forces beyond our current understanding?

    #005 Who is Norman?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2019 8:32


    The Black Country language, culture, character and even its place names owe much to events surrounding the arrival of a man with Borders connections who came second in 1066.

    #004 Christmas Listicles

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2019 8:39


    Fame is a transitory and fickle mistress; sometimes the names live on, others simply drop off the radar altogether. But how has this changed with the advent of the computer age and what might now be the future for other names from the past?

    #003 Cowboys and Coalmines

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 8:46


    The smokestacks and grime may have largely disappeared from the Dark Region, but is the grass really any greener on the other side?

    #002 Watching the Detectives

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 8:12


    A glance at some fictional crime-fighters with connections to the Black Country.

    #001 The Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2019 8:18


    Subtitled 'the musings of a Black Country ex-pat now domiciled on the Welsh border' Tales From The Barn started life in 2016 following writer and broadcaster Graham Fisher moving with his family to the land of Celtic legend. The 'Barn' referred to is not a figment of poetic licence but does actually exist and lies in the lee of the Black Mountains. The general theme of the tales is observations on aspects of Graham’s former homeland from the perspective of his present one and often features some element of direct contrast or comparison between the two. The tales also go some way in defining both the Black Country and the borderlands as to what make its respective peoples so distinctive.

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