This episode Mike & Will take a look at M.R. James’s East Anglian guidebook ‘Suffolk and Norfolk’. It’s got churches, lots and lots of churches, but also murder, mayhem, mermen, giants, green children and much more! Show notes: Skeletons at Sparham (civitasperegrina.tumblr.com) Tom Hickathrift the Giant Killer (Wikipedia) Hill of Health, Wordwell (explorebritain.com) Miss M.H. James? (Ghosts & Scholars) William Dowsing (1596–1668) (Wikipedia) Good Sword of Winfarthing (norfolkchurches.co.uk) Orford Merman (hiddenengland.com.ar) Bogie Tales of East Anglia by M.H. James (Google Books) The Guide by Ramsey Campbell (darkfictionmagazine.co.uk) Warnings to the Curious (Don’t Go into the Cellar theatre) Casting the Runes (Box Tale Soup)

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“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

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