In The Roud - A Folk Song Podcast
@intheroud.bsky.social
A weekly podcast exploring the world of traditional folk song hosted by @mattquinnmusic.bsky.social.
Season 5 out now!
Support us at www.patreon.com/intheroud
All links: https://linktr.ee/intheroud
Season 5 out now!
Support us at www.patreon.com/intheroud
All links: https://linktr.ee/intheroud
And that's the end of Season 5!!
A massive thank you to these lovely people who giving their time.
Almost all of the guests for season 6 are now booked in. Watch out in mid-Feb 2026 for new episodes.
N.B. artwork by Karl Sinfield - Graphic Design
A massive thank you to these lovely people who giving their time.
Almost all of the guests for season 6 are now booked in. Watch out in mid-Feb 2026 for new episodes.
N.B. artwork by Karl Sinfield - Graphic Design
December 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
And that's the end of Season 5!!
A massive thank you to these lovely people who giving their time.
Almost all of the guests for season 6 are now booked in. Watch out in mid-Feb 2026 for new episodes.
N.B. artwork by Karl Sinfield - Graphic Design
A massive thank you to these lovely people who giving their time.
Almost all of the guests for season 6 are now booked in. Watch out in mid-Feb 2026 for new episodes.
N.B. artwork by Karl Sinfield - Graphic Design
Final episode of the season out now!!
S5/E10 – Roud 50: SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST
Historical Guest: Sandra Kerr
Singer guest: Holly Clarke
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E10 – Roud 50: SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST
Historical Guest: Sandra Kerr
Singer guest: Holly Clarke
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
December 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Final episode of the season out now!!
S5/E10 – Roud 50: SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST
Historical Guest: Sandra Kerr
Singer guest: Holly Clarke
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E10 – Roud 50: SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST
Historical Guest: Sandra Kerr
Singer guest: Holly Clarke
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
New episode out now!!
S5/E9 – Roud 49: THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL aka LORD GREGORY
Historical Guest: Martin Nail
Singer guest: Maddy Prior
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E9 – Roud 49: THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL aka LORD GREGORY
Historical Guest: Martin Nail
Singer guest: Maddy Prior
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New episode out now!!
S5/E9 – Roud 49: THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL aka LORD GREGORY
Historical Guest: Martin Nail
Singer guest: Maddy Prior
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E9 – Roud 49: THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL aka LORD GREGORY
Historical Guest: Martin Nail
Singer guest: Maddy Prior
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
The world needs more technical difficulties of this kind.
Technical difficulties on the bus meant my fellow passengers got the accordion intro music to @intheroud.bsky.social loud and clear while I sat staring out the window, oblivious. 😎
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The world needs more technical difficulties of this kind.
New episode out now!!
S5/E8 – Roud 48: LORD LOVELL
Historical Guest: Steve Gardham
Singer guest: Moira Craig
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E8 – Roud 48: LORD LOVELL
Historical Guest: Steve Gardham
Singer guest: Moira Craig
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New episode out now!!
S5/E8 – Roud 48: LORD LOVELL
Historical Guest: Steve Gardham
Singer guest: Moira Craig
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E8 – Roud 48: LORD LOVELL
Historical Guest: Steve Gardham
Singer guest: Moira Craig
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
New episode out now!!
S5/E7 – Roud 47: YOUNG HUNTING
Historical Guest: Vic Gammon
Singer guest: Hannah Sanders
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E7 – Roud 47: YOUNG HUNTING
Historical Guest: Vic Gammon
Singer guest: Hannah Sanders
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New episode out now!!
S5/E7 – Roud 47: YOUNG HUNTING
Historical Guest: Vic Gammon
Singer guest: Hannah Sanders
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E7 – Roud 47: YOUNG HUNTING
Historical Guest: Vic Gammon
Singer guest: Hannah Sanders
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
ew episode out now!!
S5/E6 – Roud 46: LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET
History and Singer guest: @helenlindley.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E6 – Roud 46: LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET
History and Singer guest: @helenlindley.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
ew episode out now!!
S5/E6 – Roud 46: LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET
History and Singer guest: @helenlindley.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E6 – Roud 46: LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET
History and Singer guest: @helenlindley.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
New episode out now!!
S5/E5 – Roud 45: BONNIE SUSIE CLELAND
Historical Guest: Sheena Wellington and Ruth Perry
Singer guest: Lady Maisery
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E5 – Roud 45: BONNIE SUSIE CLELAND
Historical Guest: Sheena Wellington and Ruth Perry
Singer guest: Lady Maisery
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New episode out now!!
S5/E5 – Roud 45: BONNIE SUSIE CLELAND
Historical Guest: Sheena Wellington and Ruth Perry
Singer guest: Lady Maisery
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E5 – Roud 45: BONNIE SUSIE CLELAND
Historical Guest: Sheena Wellington and Ruth Perry
Singer guest: Lady Maisery
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
New episode out now!!
S5/E4 – Roud 44: FAIR JANET
Historical Guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Peggy Seeger
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E4 – Roud 44: FAIR JANET
Historical Guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Peggy Seeger
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New episode out now!!
S5/E4 – Roud 44: FAIR JANET
Historical Guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Peggy Seeger
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E4 – Roud 44: FAIR JANET
Historical Guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Peggy Seeger
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
Back in late September, we did our first ever live episode, at the Traditional Music Day in Stowmarket.
Roud 164: John Barleycorn.
History guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest(s): Belinda Kempster & Fran Foote.
We had a great time.
More live episodes at some festivals next year.
Roud 164: John Barleycorn.
History guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest(s): Belinda Kempster & Fran Foote.
We had a great time.
More live episodes at some festivals next year.
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Back in late September, we did our first ever live episode, at the Traditional Music Day in Stowmarket.
Roud 164: John Barleycorn.
History guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest(s): Belinda Kempster & Fran Foote.
We had a great time.
More live episodes at some festivals next year.
Roud 164: John Barleycorn.
History guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest(s): Belinda Kempster & Fran Foote.
We had a great time.
More live episodes at some festivals next year.
New episode out now!!
S5/E3 – Roud 43: CHILD WATERS
Historical Guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Judy Cook
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E3 – Roud 43: CHILD WATERS
Historical Guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Judy Cook
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
New episode out now!!
S5/E3 – Roud 43: CHILD WATERS
Historical Guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Judy Cook
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E3 – Roud 43: CHILD WATERS
Historical Guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Judy Cook
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
New episode out now!!
S5/E2 – Roud 42: FAIR ANNIE
Historical Guest: Sandra Kerr
Singer guest: Debbie Armour
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E2 – Roud 42: FAIR ANNIE
Historical Guest: Sandra Kerr
Singer guest: Debbie Armour
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New episode out now!!
S5/E2 – Roud 42: FAIR ANNIE
Historical Guest: Sandra Kerr
Singer guest: Debbie Armour
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E2 – Roud 42: FAIR ANNIE
Historical Guest: Sandra Kerr
Singer guest: Debbie Armour
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
Season 5 begins today!!!!
S5/E1 – Roud 41: SIR PATRICK SPENS
Historical Guest: David Atkinson
Singer guest: @jamesfagan.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E1 – Roud 41: SIR PATRICK SPENS
Historical Guest: David Atkinson
Singer guest: @jamesfagan.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
October 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Season 5 begins today!!!!
S5/E1 – Roud 41: SIR PATRICK SPENS
Historical Guest: David Atkinson
Singer guest: @jamesfagan.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S5/E1 – Roud 41: SIR PATRICK SPENS
Historical Guest: David Atkinson
Singer guest: @jamesfagan.bsky.social
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
Check out this interview with Steve Roud!!
His system of ‘Roud Numbers’ now serves as the definitive way of tracing a song’s many different versions and titles, across books, recordings, and other sources.”
Full episode: youtu.be/i_0rN8XPJGA
Full episode: youtu.be/i_0rN8XPJGA
Folklore Fragments Podcast 43: Indexing Folklore with Steve Roud | Blúiríní Béaloidis
YouTube video by UCD - University College Dublin
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Check out this interview with Steve Roud!!
Reposted by In The Roud - A Folk Song Podcast
🗣️🎤 Who, What, Where, When: Legendary song collector Stever Roud explains the four things he considers when cataloguing material for his song index.
@intheroud.bsky.social @ucdlibrary.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @duchas-ie.bsky.social
@intheroud.bsky.social @ucdlibrary.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @duchas-ie.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🗣️🎤 Who, What, Where, When: Legendary song collector Stever Roud explains the four things he considers when cataloguing material for his song index.
@intheroud.bsky.social @ucdlibrary.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @duchas-ie.bsky.social
@intheroud.bsky.social @ucdlibrary.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @duchas-ie.bsky.social
Season 5 begins tomorrow!!
Get ready for 10 more weeks of folk song history goodness.
Get ready for 10 more weeks of folk song history goodness.
October 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Season 5 begins tomorrow!!
Get ready for 10 more weeks of folk song history goodness.
Get ready for 10 more weeks of folk song history goodness.
We’ve now got a double sided flyer, and a banner too!!
Spread for the word to be spread!!!
Spread for the word to be spread!!!
September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We’ve now got a double sided flyer, and a banner too!!
Spread for the word to be spread!!!
Spread for the word to be spread!!!
Huge congratulations to our S2/E2 singer guest Martin Carthy on his Mercury prize nomination. The oldest ever nominee and his first solo album in 21 years. Incredible!!!
September 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Huge congratulations to our S2/E2 singer guest Martin Carthy on his Mercury prize nomination. The oldest ever nominee and his first solo album in 21 years. Incredible!!!
Big news! In September, we’ll be at the Traditional Music Day in Stowmarket, doing our first live episode!
It’ll be recorded it all and will be on our Patreon a few weeks later and then in place as S17/E4. We’re thrilled to doing a live in person episode and there are plans for more next year.
It’ll be recorded it all and will be on our Patreon a few weeks later and then in place as S17/E4. We’re thrilled to doing a live in person episode and there are plans for more next year.
September 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Big news! In September, we’ll be at the Traditional Music Day in Stowmarket, doing our first live episode!
It’ll be recorded it all and will be on our Patreon a few weeks later and then in place as S17/E4. We’re thrilled to doing a live in person episode and there are plans for more next year.
It’ll be recorded it all and will be on our Patreon a few weeks later and then in place as S17/E4. We’re thrilled to doing a live in person episode and there are plans for more next year.
We released a bonus episode on 6th August!
6th August saw the CD re-release of Catch Me If You Can - Song from Cornish Travellers, on Veteran Records. Recordings made in 1978 by Pete Coe of Cornish travellers Sophie Legg, Betsy Renals & Charlotte Renals.
Links in thread below.
6th August saw the CD re-release of Catch Me If You Can - Song from Cornish Travellers, on Veteran Records. Recordings made in 1978 by Pete Coe of Cornish travellers Sophie Legg, Betsy Renals & Charlotte Renals.
Links in thread below.
August 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We released a bonus episode on 6th August!
6th August saw the CD re-release of Catch Me If You Can - Song from Cornish Travellers, on Veteran Records. Recordings made in 1978 by Pete Coe of Cornish travellers Sophie Legg, Betsy Renals & Charlotte Renals.
Links in thread below.
6th August saw the CD re-release of Catch Me If You Can - Song from Cornish Travellers, on Veteran Records. Recordings made in 1978 by Pete Coe of Cornish travellers Sophie Legg, Betsy Renals & Charlotte Renals.
Links in thread below.
And that's it for S4.
A huge thanks: @pdcawley.bsky.social, Chris Foster, Steve Gardham, Sandra Kerr, John Kirkpatrick, Kirsty Law, Amy Leach, @helenlindley.bsky.social, @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social, Ruth Perry, Brian Peters, Nora Rodes, Steve Roud and Barbara Snape.
Season 5 starts on 1st October!!
A huge thanks: @pdcawley.bsky.social, Chris Foster, Steve Gardham, Sandra Kerr, John Kirkpatrick, Kirsty Law, Amy Leach, @helenlindley.bsky.social, @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social, Ruth Perry, Brian Peters, Nora Rodes, Steve Roud and Barbara Snape.
Season 5 starts on 1st October!!
August 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
And that's it for S4.
A huge thanks: @pdcawley.bsky.social, Chris Foster, Steve Gardham, Sandra Kerr, John Kirkpatrick, Kirsty Law, Amy Leach, @helenlindley.bsky.social, @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social, Ruth Perry, Brian Peters, Nora Rodes, Steve Roud and Barbara Snape.
Season 5 starts on 1st October!!
A huge thanks: @pdcawley.bsky.social, Chris Foster, Steve Gardham, Sandra Kerr, John Kirkpatrick, Kirsty Law, Amy Leach, @helenlindley.bsky.social, @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social, Ruth Perry, Brian Peters, Nora Rodes, Steve Roud and Barbara Snape.
Season 5 starts on 1st October!!
Brand new episode out last week.
Final episode of the season!!
S4/E10 – Roud 40: LORD BATEMAN
Historical Guest: Steve Gardham (+ Ruth Perry)
Singer guest: John Kirkpatrick
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
Final episode of the season!!
S4/E10 – Roud 40: LORD BATEMAN
Historical Guest: Steve Gardham (+ Ruth Perry)
Singer guest: John Kirkpatrick
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
August 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Brand new episode out last week.
Final episode of the season!!
S4/E10 – Roud 40: LORD BATEMAN
Historical Guest: Steve Gardham (+ Ruth Perry)
Singer guest: John Kirkpatrick
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
Final episode of the season!!
S4/E10 – Roud 40: LORD BATEMAN
Historical Guest: Steve Gardham (+ Ruth Perry)
Singer guest: John Kirkpatrick
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
The keen eyed amongst you have noticed that the final episode of the season has not yet been uploaded.
Irritating technical difficulties on this end. Should be sorted in the next couple of days.
Irritating technical difficulties on this end. Should be sorted in the next couple of days.
July 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The keen eyed amongst you have noticed that the final episode of the season has not yet been uploaded.
Irritating technical difficulties on this end. Should be sorted in the next couple of days.
Irritating technical difficulties on this end. Should be sorted in the next couple of days.
Brand new episode out last week.
S4/E9 – Roud 39: THE KING’S DAUGHTER LADY JEAN
Guest: Jo Miller
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S4/E9 – Roud 39: THE KING’S DAUGHTER LADY JEAN
Guest: Jo Miller
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
July 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Brand new episode out last week.
S4/E9 – Roud 39: THE KING’S DAUGHTER LADY JEAN
Guest: Jo Miller
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
S4/E9 – Roud 39: THE KING’S DAUGHTER LADY JEAN
Guest: Jo Miller
Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
Gearing up to record my interview with next week’s singer guest. It’s the ballad Lord Bateman (Roud 40, Child 53) but who is the guest? If you’ve finished today’s episode already, you’ll know who.
Otherwise, my only clue is… Star Trek!
Otherwise, my only clue is… Star Trek!
July 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Gearing up to record my interview with next week’s singer guest. It’s the ballad Lord Bateman (Roud 40, Child 53) but who is the guest? If you’ve finished today’s episode already, you’ll know who.
Otherwise, my only clue is… Star Trek!
Otherwise, my only clue is… Star Trek!