Podcasts about stratford upon avon

The Postables of the Signed, Sealed, Delivered dead letter office return in, "To The Moon and Back," this time to find the writer of a letter forced to go into hiding to protect her family. And we travel over to England to Stratford Upon Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare and a new detective series called "Shakespeare and Hathaway" that mystery viewers can now find on Hallmark Plus. Your table is dressed for mystery and adventure on this edition of The Hallmark Cafe!

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Jamie Oliver's Chefs Table Netflix episode review, Dishes Paul's not yet tried, Wotsits, Ovens, Lamb  and chewing the industry fat. We are delighted to be in partnership with Unilever Food Solutions. You can download and read through their comprehensive Future Menus report here, just go to ufs.com/NightcapFutureMenus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Borderless Cuisine, fusion food, Easter eggs, Roast lamb, sandwich fillings, food influencers/reviewers and chewing the industry fat. We are delighted to be in partnership with Unilever Food Solutions. You can download and read through their comprehensive Future Menus report here, just go to ufs.com/NightcapFutureMenus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Catey's Nominations 2025, Birria stews, Salt & Malt Bristol, Britain's favourite cocktails and chewing the industry fat. We are delighted to be in partnership with Unilever Food Solutions. You can download and read through their comprehensive Future Menus report here, just go to ufs.com/NightcapFutureMenus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Catey's judging, Humble/lavish pairings, kitchen smells, cooking in NYC with Sat Bains and chewing the industry fat. We are delighted to be in partnership with Unilever Food Solutions. You can download and read through their comprehensive Future Menus report here, just go to ufs.com/NightcapFutureMenus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Simon at The Devonshire, Indonesian cuisine, Tunworth Cheese, Full Englishes and chewing the industry fat. We are delighted to be in partnership with Unilever Food Solutions. You can download and read through their comprehensive Future Menus report here, just go to ufs.com/NightcapFutureMenus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Coffee clarification, elevated street food, more snacks, perfect UK 5 course dinner, knives and chewing the industry fat. We are delighted to be in partnership with Unilever Food Solutions. You can download and read through their comprehensive Future Menus report here, just go to ufs.com/NightcapFutureMenus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Paul eats out at Wildmoor Oak, Eylstan Street and Trinity. The HRC Show 2025, Future Menus 4 key trends, Thomas Hine's epic charity challenge, Top 5 Pasta dishes, crushed pretzels and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mickey-Jo recently headed to Stratford upon Avon, home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, to see their new production of EDWARD II.The play, written by Christopher Marlowe, speculates about the reign of the troubled 14th century king, and his relationship with Piers Gaveston.Check out this full review for Mickey-Jo thoughts on the play, its queer themes, and this singularly passionate new staging starring co-artistic director Daniel Evans in the title role.•00:00 | introduction02:04 | overview / synopsis07:09 | queer themes12:36 | creative choices16:58 | performances•About Mickey-Jo:As one of the leading voices in theatre criticism on a social platform, Mickey-Jo is pioneering a new medium for a dwindling field. His YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MickeyJoTheatre⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is the largest worldwide in terms of dedicated theatre criticism, where he also share features, news and interviews as well as lifestyle content for over 75,000 subscribers. Since establishing himself as a theatre critic he has been able to work internationally. With a viewership that is largely split between the US and the UK he has been fortunate enough to be able to work with PR, Marketing, and Social Media representatives for shows in New York, London, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Toronto, Sao Pãolo, and Paris. He has also twice received accreditation from the world renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His reviews and features have also been published by WhatsOnStage, for whom he was a panelist to help curate nominees for their 2023 and 2024 Awards as well as BroadwayWorldUK, Musicals Magazine and LondonTheatre.co.uk. He has been invited to speak to private tour groups, at the BEAM 2023 new musical theatre conference at Oxford Playhouse, and on a panel of critics at an event for young people considering a career in the arts courtesy of Go Live Theatre Projects. Instagram/TikTok/X: @MickeyJoTheatre

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: What coffee is what? Toasties, Unilever Food Solutions partnership, future menus, food you'd happily never eat again and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Simon head's to Paul's for dinner, rhubarb, toffee sauces, hospitality at sporting venues, mint, bar snacks and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Activity Quest, Adam chats to Will from the Stratford Upon Avon Butterfly Farm and to Dan from Butterfly Conservation.Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Reaction to the open letter from 70 female chefs, Notto, thieving Paul Foster, Cadbury's chocolate bars and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Laura Kimber, Head Chef at Salt, joins us to talk about Jason Atherton's news article, sexism and the hospitality industry, top 5 sauces and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: The Michelin Awards 2025, Scones, Paul's ultimate fantasy kitchen Chef Brigade and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: UK Michelin Star predictions 2025, Top 5 Chef films/tv shows and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Dinner at Roe, wine tasting, Junior Bake Off, Duck curry, “must follow” food content creators and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Ikea meatballs, Si's Falmouth trip and best non-alcoholic drinks and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: The Silver Spoon cookbook, Paul and Emma Ainsworth acquire the St Enodoc Hotel, soft play, 1 pot dishes and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Xmas debrief, Abba, Noble Rot, Paul back on James Martin's show with Nathan Outlaw, New Year's resolutions, Cadbury's and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: How to make the perfect gravy for Christmas Day. Duck, Pigs in Blankets, Gail's Mince Pies, Chocolate Boxes and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: How to cook the perfect Roast Potatoes for Christmas Day. Simon's trip to Padstow, Parsnips, mince pies, German markets, moving house and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: How to cook perfect Beef for Christmas Day. Yorkshire Puddings, Beef Wellington, Tinsel, Best Christmas foods and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: How to cook the perfect turkey for Christmas, best food and drink pairings and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Great British Bake Off Semi Finals, Opera Cakes, Fruity Entremet, Soups, Rotting Beef, weird food combos and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Paul has lunch at The Devonshire, 70's desserts on Great British Bake Off, Traitors Board Game, Panettone, Christmas buzz and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Great British Bake Off, sauces in restaurants, Chelsea Buns, fireworks, plumbers, customer pet peeves and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Pumpkin dishes, best pastries, Michelin Awards move to Scotland, minimum wage increase, weaning and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Paul's trip to Venice with Unox, listener Q's, fish dishes and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October 2023 the story of the discovery of a stage floor that dated from before the Elizabethan period in St George's Guildhall in Kings Lynn hit the news. The attrition to the headline writers was the fact that that very stage had probably supported Shakespeare as he acted as part of a playing troupe on stage. Of course, that is a great hook for the story as the interest in Shakespeare goes well beyond those of us immersed in the history of theatre and the idea that we can still share a space like that across four hundred years is a beguiling one. I remember standing on the original floor of Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford Upon Avon and feeling a very similar thrill, but there is much more to the story of St George's Guild Hall at King's Lynn, a venue for theatre for not just four hundred years, but at least six hundred, making it the UK's oldest working theatre. So, I was very pleased when Tim Fitzhigham, Creative Director of the Guildhall Theatre agreed to come onto the podcast and talk about St George's Guildhall and that stage.Tim Fitzhigham is the Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Creative Director appointed to oversee the revival of St George's Guildhall. As well as leading this extensive project he is currently completing his PhD on Robert Armin, an actor in The King's Men who originated many of the clown and fool roles in all but the earliest Shakespeare plays and was a well-known playwright and author in his own right.Links to the St George's Guildhall Websitehttps://stgeorgesguildhall.comand Instagram Accounthttps://www.instagram.com/stg.guildhall/ Support the podcast at:www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.comwww.patreon.com/thoetpwww.ko-fi.com/thoetp Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Purnell's closes its doors, Paul eats at Sat Bains', cold cuts, cars and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Geoff Thompson is an BAFTA award-winning writer, screenwriter, and martial artist, who has authored more than forty books. Once a bouncer in Coventry, Geoff turned his life around by making a hierarchy of ”fears“ and directly confronting them, one by one. In this conversation, we explore: — Geoff's life-changing encounter with his former abuser in a Coventry Cafe — Geoff's thoughts on finding your true self and becoming unified as a person. — How limiting beliefs shape our lives and what it takes to overcome them. — The role of truth in Geoff's journey and how it informs his writing. And more. You can keep up to date with Geoff's work on Instagram at: geoff_thompson_official. --- Geoff Thompson is 63 years old. He lives in Stratford Upon Avon. He has published close to fifty books. Some of his work in the self-help genre has been translated into dozens of languages including Russian, Chinese, Japanese, German, and Spanish. His first book, Watch My Back, detailing his experiences working as a nightclub bouncer in Coventry, hit the Sunday Times bestsellers list, was made into a stage play, adapted into to a BAFTA nominated short film starring Ray Winstone, and a BIFA nominated motion picture for cinema. He has also written articles for national magazines and broadsheets, including The Times, Men's Fitness (former columnist), GQ and FHM. Geoff's work as a playwright started when he was invited to join The Royal Court Young Writers Group in London. He has gone onto write many successful plays that have toured nationally and internationally. His stage musical We'll Live and Die in These Towns was produced and performed to great acclaim at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in 2018, and is in the process of being adapted to film. He is also a BAFTA winning screenwriter, penning multi-award-winning films for luminaries such as Ray Winstone, Paddy Considine, Orlando Bloom, Maxine Peake, Anne Reid, Alison Steadman, Christopher Eccleston and James Cosmo. His most recent feature film, Retaliation starring Orlando Bloom, received great acclaim in the US: it is a muscular biopic about the metaphysical power of forgiveness. Geoff Thompson is one of the world's highest ranking (8thdan) martial arts teachers. The prestigious Black Belt Magazine USA polled him as the number 1 self-defense author in the world. Geoff's new book 99 Reasons to Forgive And Revenge Ain't One is published with O Books. You can keep up to date with Geoff's work on Instagram at: geoff_thompson_official. --- Interview Links: — Geoff's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/geoff_thompson_official

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Paul recaps his epic London to Paris Cycle Challenge in aid of Farm Africa, Simon on weaning his son, Top 5 vegetables and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Paul's prepping for his cycle from London to Paris, in aid of Farm Africa. Plus, all inclusive hotels and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Big Feastival 2024, Sharp's Silent Bistro, Shaun of the Dead, Unwritten Kitchen rules and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: A Listener Q&A Special! The boys tackle, ideal guests, new restaurants they want to try, ick-factors, pet peeves, home comforts, broccoli stalks and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: The Sardine Factory, crabbing, affogatos, tomatoes, riots, Big Feastival smoking stage, soft drinks and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That wasn't a question for Madeleine in Stratford-Upon-Avon or Rebecca on the Isle Of Man

Even William Shakespeare had to take out the garbage. In his hometown of Stratford Upon Avon, public waste was managed through a system of piles known as muck hills. In 1552, William Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, was charged a fine for one of these muck hills that was kept across the street from his home on Henley Street. For a long time, scholars have thought this fine meant that John Shakespeare was keeping the dung heap illegally, or perhaps using it inappropriately, but recent research into how muck hills operate and the history of public sanitation in Stratford Upon Avon have caused us to see this record of John Shakespeare in a new light. Here today to share with us how taking out the garbage worked for Shakespeare's lifetime is our guest, Elizabethan Tavares.   Get bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 128:Author John Taplin discusses researching the Stratford families of Shakespeare's time and particularly the ancestry of John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law.John Taplin spent the majority of his career in management in the telecommunications industry until 2001 when he joined the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust at Hall's Croft and Nash's House/New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, until retiring in 2010. A historian, genealogist and biographer, he has published articles on Shakespeare, his contemporaries and associates in and around Stratford, including the families directly associated with New Place.Shakespeare's Stratford home, before and after Shakespeare's lifetime. In 2011 he published his book Shakespeare's Country Families - A Documentary Guide to Shakespeare's Country Society. He was a member of the Advisory Board for the Trust's Dig for Shakespeare project at New Place between 2010-2015, and in 2018 he published a revised and updated edition of his 2011book. He has a Masters degree in historical studies from the University of Leicester.Links to John's ebook:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twenty-first-Century-Shakespeare-Gleanings-Taplin-ebook/dp/B0CC633JY2/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.UlnFY8UInwIYfhuJf0AiXmtXTQSRHcN9Ativ9cOIX_PGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.4xAoLuO1JQQ2o0LumK9U_Hjq703MON6NOQVolv2BSr4&dib_tag=se&qid=1721225584&refinements=p_27%3AJohn+Taplin&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=John+TaplinSupport the podcast at:www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.comwww.ko-fi.com/thoetpwww.patreon.com/thoetpThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: National Chef of the Year deep dive, competition in the kitchen, The Bear, nuts and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Eshaan Akbar's Hands Down Launch, Dishoom, DK Oyster in Mykonos, The Tawny, Best Summer Dishes and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: The Cateys 2024, Judging “Menu of the Year,” rogue food combos, James Martin shoutout, Yorkshire puddings, baked beans and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a new play depicts the landmark global climate change agreement, the Kyoto protocol, Jordan Dunbar has a front row seat. He heads to the historic English town of Stratford-Upon-Avon to watch the opening night of the play, Kyoto, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He hears why the writers, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson decided to dramatize the seemingly slow and tedious action of a global climate change conference. And the duo explain their goal to highlight Kyoto as a ‘parable of agreement' in a world full of disagreement.The programme also hears from two veterans of many real world climate change negotiations, including the Kyoto Protocol, the first global agreement to set legally binding targets. Christiana Figueres was responsible for leading climate negotiations as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Farhana Yamin provided legal and strategy advice to the leaders of AOSIS, the Alliance of Small Island States at Kyoto and nearly every UN climate summit since.Got a question, comment or experience you'd like to share? Email: TheClimateQuestion@BBC.comPresenter: Jordan Dunbar Producers: Phoebe Keane and Octavia Woodward Editor: Simon Watts Sound mix: Tom Brignell

Episode 122:The fourth and final part of the biography of Shakespeare.The rise of Shakespeare as actor and playwright for the Lord Chamberlain's Men.‘The Comedy of Errors' performed at Grey's Inn, ‘the night of errors.'The influence of the inns of court.Plays for special occasions.Francis Meres' comments on Shakespeare.Shakespeare's involvement in a legal summons.The move from The Theatre to The Globe.The opening of The Globe.The sharers at The Globe.Shakespeare lodging on Silver Street and his involvement with the Mountjoy family.Shakespeare's interests in Stratford-Upon-Avon.The death of Hamnet Shakespeare.New Place – Shakespeare's home in Stratford.Shakespeare's business interests in Stratford.The accession of James 1st and the creation of the King's Men.The King's Men's record of performance at Court.The King's Men take on the indoor Blackfriars Theatre.Shakespeare buys a house near the Blackfriars Theatre.The last works with collaborators.The burning down and rebuilding of The Globe.The last years in Stratford.The death of Shakespere.Support the podcast at:www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.comwww.ko-fi.com/thoetpwww.patreon.com/thoetpThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Developing your palette, bay leaves, stock making, Top 5 cheeses and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Coffee subscriptions, school dinners, best mince dishes, Greek yoghurt and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Shakespeare's plays, he uses the word “glass” over 80 times, including to talk about specific kinds of glass like a pilot's glass in Alls Well That Ends Well, and “the glasses of my sight” in Coriolanus. We can see from the surviving building of Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford Upon Avon, that window glass existed, and there was even an old glass house in the Blackfriars where the Blackfriars theater was located, but how was all this glass made? What materials were used? What other products might have been made from glass, and what colors of glass were available or even most popular? To find out the answers to these questions and explore the history of glass for Shakespeare's lifetime, we are delighted to welcome Allen Loomis to the show today.   Get bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Each week, Paul Foster & Simon Alexander catch up for coffee at Paul's Restaurant - Salt, in the centre of Stratford Upon Avon. This week: Table Talk Chef Alumni Fly Fishing, Heston Blumenthal on mental health, Manifest in Liverpool, How to Cook Properly Patreon, condiments, ginger and chewing the industry fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode we're headed back to Warwickshire, and Martin is telling his take on the legend of Lady Godiva!We start off chatting about St Ethelbert, and the rather severe haircut he received from King Offa of Mercia, after which we wander to Warwickshire!In addition to discussing some parts of Warwickshire that are no longer considered part of the county, including Coventry and Birmingham, along with the likes of Warwick Castle and Stratford Upon Avon, we then debate the merits of a couple of possible County Dishes - Warwickshire Stew and the much more traditional, if possibly dangerous, Pickled Pigeon...After some folkloric chat about topics like the mysterious Mickleton Hooter, the highwayman Bendigo Mitchell, and a one-handed Jacobean poltergeist, plus some excerpts from this week's Local Legends interview with author of Warwickshire Folk Tales Cath Edwards, it's onto the main event: Martin's take on the story of Lady Godiva's life and naked ride, "The Hand of God."Speak to you again on Thursday for our new Magic and Medicines bonus episode all about Amulets!The Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays (Magic and Medicines about folk remedies and arcane spells, Three Ravens Bestiary about cryptids and mythical creatures, Dying Arts about endangered heritage crafts, and Something Wicked about folkloric true crime from across history) plus Local Legends episodes on Saturdays - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon, too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?Learn more at www.threeravenspodcast.com, join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/threeravenspodcast, and find links to our social media channels here: https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.