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Somerset Lost and Found

Somerset Lost and Found

Written by: Phil Lowe
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Phil Lowe and his expert guests dig into the history and folklore of Somerset.

Apologies, listeners, the podcast is on hold as Phil has moved to Devon. Unforgiveable... and it means no more history and folklore for a while.

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Episodes
  • The Village Church - From The Reformation to Today

    The Village Church - From The Reformation to Today
    Dec 15 2025

    Phil returns to the 800 year old church in Kingston St Mary with local historian Ray Stokes, to see what impact the civil war, the industrial revolution and the Victorian era had on a typical Somerset village church.
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    32 mins
  • Danger - Poets in the Quantocks!

    Danger - Poets in the Quantocks!
    Nov 28 2025

    Drug addiction, marital breakups, professional rivalries - yes life for an 18th century creative artist wasn't so different from today. So Coleridge found when he settled in Nether Stowey north of Taunton, followed by his great friend William Wordsworth. We examine Coleridge and Wordsworth's time in Somerset - a period when they created the Romantic Poetry movement and also succumbed to Laudanum addiction and professional rivalry.
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    32 mins
  • The Mythology of Murder

    The Mythology of Murder
    Nov 14 2025

    250 years ago, a Somerset woman was murdered by her husband. He was investigated, found guilty, and executed. So why 50 years later was he being eulogised as a prime specimen of masculinity? And what does this have to do with the earthwork in the Quantocks known as "Dead Woman's Ditch"? Join me and my guest as we explore 18th century "fake news" and see what truth we can shake from it.

    Join me and my guest, archeologist and folklore expert Dan Broadbent - and please don't have nightmares...
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    30 mins
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