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    In this episode we continue to explore the idea that the music of Cornwall and Devon came from a common source, and that the arrival of the Saxons did not mean that the link between the two areas, and their shared celtic connections, were severed forever.

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    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    If you would like to find out more about the history of music and culture in Cornwall and Devon then this extended edition allows Mike O'Connor the opportunity to expand on the ideas that he put forward in the S2 11 podcast.

    ***Please Note*** The beginning of this podcast will sound the same as the standard one! Don't be fooled...

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    Back in Series One in episodes 11 and 12 we explored Baring-Gould's idea that some of the songs and tunes from Devon and Cornwall were somehow different from those found to the east and whether the Celtic blood of the area had had an influence.
    Well folks, in order to gain more of an insight into this topic, Mike was lucky enough to recently talk to Mike O'Connor, who is a Cornish-based musicologist, folk performer, story teller, and folk music advisor for BBC TV series Poldark(!) in order to sound out his views on the subject.

    ***Please Note*** There is also an extended version of this podcast which goes into even greater detail!

    Support the show

    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    In this episode we link an old Cornish song with a legend that tells of how three of our local rivers might have come into being! Intrigued? Well find out more now in the latest podcast of The Parson and the Songmen.

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    In musical circles in late Victorian times the question was often asked as to whether England had any traditional folk songs? The answer, thankfully, was "Yes!" But, it took Sabine Baring-Gould and other folk song collectors of that era to realise that these mythical folk songs had been looked for in the wrong places.
    One such place that yielded many, many songs was ye olde worlde inn (pub!) and in this episode we return to The Falcon Inn in St Mawgan, Cornwall to unearth the story behind a classic Cornish folk song.

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    In the very early 1900s someone 'knocked on the door' of Lew Trenchard Manor to ask The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould for advice as to how to go about collecting folk songs. This gentleman was taken under the Parson's wing, and later would become the most famous and well remembered folk song collector in this country. His name is Cecil Sharp.

    Support the show

    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    In this episode we explore the origins of two songs from Cornish songmen which have a common theme... drink! These were destined for Sabine's 'Songs Of The West', but were dropped by another well-known folk song collector who had been given editorial duties. His reason?
    Songs about drinking are not folk songs....

    Support the show

    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    This episode brings you the story of Edmund Fry, who moved from Cornwall to Lydford in Devon, just six miles from Sabine Baring-Gould's home. Edmund provided Sabine with several songs that he may never have collected on his song collecting trips into Cornwall, including one of his personal favourites, and rather a notorious one to boot!

    Support the show

    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    Join us in this latest episode of The Parson And The Songmen as we explore Cornwall's mining heritage and how some of the songs collected by the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould could may well have made it into Cornwall with miners returning to The Duchy from overseas.

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    We join Sabine and Freddie Bussell as they take a train trip to Fowey, situated on the South Cornish coast. But will their song-collecting excursion be profitable? Find out now in the fourth episode in the second series of The Parson And The Songmen.

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    In this episode we join Sabine on a further song collecting trip into Cornwall, this time to St Mawgan, situated a few miles south of Padstow on the North Coast of the County. Here he visited a pub with a reputation for hosting singers, The Falcon Inn.

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    Welcome to the second episode of the second series of The Parson and the Songmen. In this series we follow the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould on further folk song collecting trips, not this time in Devon, but in neighbouring Cornwall. In this episode we visit Helston, in the west of the county, to find out about another Cornish celebration of the arrival of spring, Helston Flora Day.

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    Welcome to Series Two of the Parson and the Songmen where we will follow the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould into Cornwall on a new series of folksong collecting trips. This episode focuses on the age-old tradition of welcoming in the spring in the North Cornish town of Padstow on May 1st.
    Oss Oss Wee Oss!

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    'Zackly what it says on the tin, a selection of songs featured in series one!

    Track Listing and Start Times OR CLICK ON CHAPTERS to go straight to each song.

    The Egloshayle Ringers 0.54
    Spencer The Rover 3.02
    The Gypsy 5.53
    The Blue Flame 8.41
    The Bell Ringing 11.13
    The Last Of The Singers 14.50
    Tithe Pig 17.31
    The Blue Kerchief 21.22
    The Slapton Smuggleress/The Sailor Woman 23.21

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    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    This podcast is aimed at those of you who may wish to do some of your own research into the life and folk song collecting of the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould.
    You will have heard the titles of some books in the past episodes of this series, so to find out more about them then listen away!
    Also below is a list of the texts that are referred to:

    'Songs Of The West - Folk Songs of Devon And Cornwall Collected From The Mouths Of The People by S Baring-Gould MA, H Fleetwood Sheppard MA, and FW Bussell Mus Doc DD.
    Published by Methuen & Co Ltd. 36 Essex St, W.C. London.

    'Early Reminiscences 1834-1864' By S Baring-Gould
    'Further Reminiscences 1864-1894' By S Baring-Gould
    Both published by John Lane. The Bodley Head Ltd. Vigo St, London.

    'Onward Christian Soldier - A Life Of Sabine Baring-Gould, Parson, Squire, Novelist, Antiquary 1834-1924' by Rev William Purcell.
    Published by Longmans Green & Co Ltd. 6 & 7 Clifford St, London W1.

    'Sabine Baring-Gould - Squarson Writer And Folklorist 1834-1924' by Bickford HC Dickenson. Published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot

    'Half My Life - The Story Of Sabine Baring-Gould And Grace' by Keith Lister.
    Published by Charnwood Publications, 13 Grove Rd, Horbury, Wakefield, West Yorks.

    'As I Walked Out - Sabine Baring-Gould And The Search For The Folk Songs Of Devon And Cornwall' by Martin Graebe.
    Published by Signal Books Ltd. 36 Minster Rd, Oxford.










    Support the show

    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/

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    In this nineteenth episode of The Parson and the Songmen we find out whether the gamble that Sabine took with his inheritance did indeed pay off and whether he would ever reside in his native Devon again...
    But, as the title of this podcast may suggest, you may have already guessed the answer!

    Support the show

    *Please can you help by supporting the show. I have always kept the episodes commercial-free, but in order for the podcasts to continue I do need some support, due to ongoing running costs. So, please support me (if you can) by donating. For details of how to make a donation click on support. Any help would be appreciated but if you were able to make a donation of $15 or more then I will send you a copy of my CD By Chance it was, recorded live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, on receipt of a mailing address!
    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/
    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
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    In this episode we join Sabine, and his ever growing family, in his cramped vicarage in Yorkshire. Worrying about this overcrowded situation, he receives an offer from the Prime Minister (no less!) to take up a more substantial parish in East Mersea, Essex. Then, after some ten years, Sabine receives news that will set about the wheels of a return to his native West Country...

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    Join Sabine on a journey into deep uncharted waters as he discovers the opposite sex! Where will this take him, and just who is the girl that has turned his head? Find out now in the 17th episode of The Parson and the Songmen.

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    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
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    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
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    In this sixteenth episode of the Parson and the Songmen we hear how Sabine is finally ordained and find out whether he makes a success of his early days as a curate in Yorkshire.

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    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
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    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
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    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
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    In this episode we hear how Sabine took his first reluctant steps into university study and how he took great steps to change the direction this would take, leading, amongst other things, to a connection with Count Dracula, werewolves and Vikings!

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    *[email protected] if you have any questions about the podcast series, or The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Also please contact me if you would be interested in booking me for a talk/gig.
    *Jon Tidball, podcast series producer - [email protected].
    *Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts:
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    *Thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos
    *Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/
    *Mike O'Connor. Cornish-based musicologist, folk singer and story-teller.
    http://www.lyngham.co.uk/
    https://lyngham-house-music.sumupstore.com/products
    https://prophecyofmerlin.com/