OOh my most favorite ever of your 'podcasts'. I am a total addict too, I think he would have been the best dinner guest. My father was a polymath and told stories (some, now he is gone I start to wonder how true they were, but like with RSBG's stories, it actually doesn't matter). It was my father who is partly responsible for my addiction to the great man, he told me stories about the 'Vicar of Morwenstow', the rather excentric Rev Hawker (we live nearish Morwenstow), I found SBG's biography of Hawker in a second hand bookshop years and years ago and bought it for Dad, I also found 'The Book of Dartmoor' that day and was hooked (in the foreward it said that some of the stories were perhaps a little embroidered 🤣) and I fell in love with this book and the author (sadly I can't find it at the moment, redecorating so it's somewhere 'safe'!). Also the house of one of our neighbours was home of the man who is probably the basis of Cruel Coppinger, (SBG's 'In the Roar of the Sea' another of my favorite books). I have quite a collection of his books and love his diversity, I agree that he was a mischevious polymath, a fascinating man with a great imagination. I am after As I Walked out now and also want to find someone who has recorded the songs he collected (I have one now, thanks George, have you thought of looking for a record deal 😉😂), someone gave a talk in our village last year but I missed it sadly. Thank you for another very entertaining and informative 'podcast'. Looking forward to the next one. :)

Your video is truly amazing.

Absolutely excellent

Bloody marvellous George. Thankyou for brightening a dull day, with this engaging and intriguing 'podcast'. Excellent contributions by writer and archivist too 🤕😁😆

You almost got me, for a minute I thought you’d gone to the dark side. The bbc should be ashamed of what it’s done to the documentary format! Great work, George. Everyday I resist the temptation to purchase the entire ‘lives of the saints’………every goddam day.

What a way to start a new year of podcasts* (*not podcasts), George! Epic! Great interview too. Just a gentle reminder - stay kind to archivists. 😄

I'm intrigued now by the 'warren' on Great Mis Tor, must try to find that. I'm convinced that 'Dewer' comes from the Cornish 'Dyowl' meaning Devil, happy to be proven wrong but as your hero is a Cornish hater... Still your hero and I agree Galford near Lewtrenchard is the likely place of battle between the Cornish and Saxons in 825AD, I've been planning on doing a film about it sometime or other. Nice little episode, I enjoyed the last one also.

I get your RSBG obsession George, RSBG clearly was a complex character... I must admit, that when I heard the "Keep it Supernatural' reference in relation to the Hound of the Baskervilles, I did literally punch the air with my fist 🙂 You went to my home town too (Exeter), and I was moved by that... Plus I think anyone who stems from Exeter is potentially gonna rate HIGH on any Complexity scale, if not blow the whole thing up! LOL... Loved the investigative journalist vibe in this video. Made my day. Melbourne seems drab in comparison. 😞

Horbury Bridge (not Sowerby Bridge) was where Baring-Gould met his wife-to-be Grace and the village of Horbury are having a massive Baring-Gould celebration this weekend, including a re-enactment of the Whit Sunday procession that SBG composed 'Onward Christian Soldiers' for in 1865!

Excellent stuff!! Very well done and very funny.

Didn't get the Author Lawrence's Sirname. Would like to read his book! Excellent video!

It was great to meet you to in Paignton made my day sorry about wrong name 😂😂😂😂

As a fellow sufferer from this myself I would say that his negative treatment of tailors was merely an example of his sense of humour. Too often an innocent piss-take is seen as an attack. I think you were right when you said that his use of the term 'Squarson' to describe himself was an example of his sense of humour. He was taking the piss out of himself as he would with others.

Very funny 😁

Big mistake: His name: It's Sab as in 'cab', and 'ine' as in 'wine' NOT ' Sab' as in 'Babe' and 'ine' as in 'in'.

You should somehow stop the purgatory of teaching english to people who say "be like" and "WTF" and somehow make stuff like this for a living. All the best for 24, bro.

love this!