The Three Ravens Podcast

On today's chapter of Dog Days - the twentieth (only 10 more to go!) - Kit is taken, by boat, back to the underground Temple of Aphrodite. Morning is coming, and he hopes his sister, Bel Imperia's prisoner, is still alive. Yet, the court is in a state of jubilation. They believe they have killed 'The Kasal' - the wizard responsible for so many deaths. Though is the severed head on the pike beside...

Time for some mid-week madness in this episode of Dog Days : hot on the heels of a well-dressed man who has created a fire in a records room at Gray's Inn, Kit Marlowe knows he is outmatched and in trouble. Yet, the Lammastide Revels continue in all the streets about. As the crowds get thinner, is Kit being led somewhere quiet? Has the hunter become the hunted? Three Ravens is an English Myth and...

Chapter 18 of Dog Days sees Kit attending the Gray's Inn Revels, where Oxford's Men are to perform The Spanish Tragedy. Kit is on a mission to find out more about Barnaby's involvement, until he meets an old flame. But sometimes old flames burn brightest of all... Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon. Released on Monday...

In Chapter 17 of Dog Days, Kit returns to Barnaby's room to find Thomas Walsingham waiting for him. Unusually, Walsingham is surprisingly helpful. Although he does have certain ideas about cleanliness... Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon. Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 histori...

In Chapter 16 of Dog Days, Kit finally tracks down the Earl of Oxford. But although Kit is starting to arrange the pieces of the mystery on the chess board, there are still lots of missing pieces. And a new and powerful player has just entered the game... Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon. Released on Mondays, each w...

Chapter 15 of Dog Days takes Kit and Doll on a mysterious journey through London's secret tunnels to a lost Roman temple, deep below Southwark. There, they are initiated into the mysteries of the court of Bel-Imperia, Queen of the Roses. And Her Majesty has some serious questions for Kit... Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor...

In Chapter 14 of Dog Days , Kit makes it back to the north bank of the river and strikes out, exhausted, for home. As he goes, he has much to consider. His day, long and baffling, has left him feeling punch drunk and alone. Though his empty belly is not the only thing that growls upon the streets of Norton Fulgate, and what greets him in the street is abject horror... Three Ravens is an English My...

Today's episode of Dog Days , Chapter 13, sees Kit progressing to Syon House - home of the enigmatic Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland - the 'Wizard Earl.' Kit has questions he wants answered, but so does Percy - and Percy's guests, one of whom is Sir Walter Raleigh, who ought to be at sea. Yet the object of Kit's interests ought to be Percy's servant, the alleged thief who stole The Rainbow in...

Chapter 12 of Dog Days sees Kit's evening going further sideways, as the raven that has been following him all day suddenly turns the tables. Kit, and his secret package, soon find themselves in the home of Doctor John Dee. There, alongside Dee's daughter Katherine, Kit learns about the nature of The Rainbow - and the nature of matter itself... Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast...

We start the week with Chapter 11 of Dog Days , during which we find Kit Marlowe high-tailing it to The Mermaid Tavern on the north bank of the Thames. A nexus for traders, actors, spies and thieves, Kit expects to be waylaid there, but must not dally: his meeting with the Wizard Earl is close at hand, and the night dark above him. All he needs to do is enter the place, go through largely unseen,...

Hey, you know a cool thing? Today's episode of Dog Days means we are now a third of the way through the story. Thank you so much to you, and all of the people listening, for making us part of your own 'Hot Dog Summer!' Downloads are up 20% month on month, and 37% in just the last seven days! As for the contents of this chapter, well, suitably freaked out by Harriot and Hues, Kit wants to get the E...

For today's episode of Dog Days we have a slightly shorter chapter, though one filled with revelations care of a pair of the Earl of Northumberland's closest allies, Hues and Harriot, two of the 'Three Magi.' While they speak, in the shattered ruins of the 'Jew Gardens' - a historic graveyard left to grow wild - the sun shines down from above, and Kit feels something rising within him - a new kind...

In our eighth episode of Dog Days Kit find himself with much to attend to, only then a pudgy lad with freckles grabs his arm and steers him rapidly away towards other things. Before long he is in a conveyance headed out to Smithfields, where the new Queen of the Roses, Bel Imperia, is keeping a secret. A girl who all think mad, who saw a terrible thing yet lived - something she and Kit find they h...

During today's episode of Dog Days we catch up with Barnaby, who has been waiting up for Kit. And waiting. And waiting. Two men from very different walks of life, events have brought them together. Yet one has almost died overnight, battling with demons, while the other has been at church, marking the start of Lammastide. As Barnaby helps Kit to wash, and aids him in his wounded state, what though...

Our sixth episode of Dog Days finds our hero weary from a long day beneath the baking heat - yet the dying hours of Lammastide still have some tricks up their sleeves before Kit Marlowe can lay his sweaty, bewildered head down to rest. After all, his problems are hardly going to resolve themselves, and when he hears footsteps dogging his own he wonders if it is a new perplexity or an old one. Eith...

In this chapter of Dog Days , Kit Marlowe finds the blade of a dagger pressed against his throat - and not for the first time. He has come to the docks of Shad Thames, as instructed by his clandestine master, Sir Francis Walsingham. Yet the Golden Hind, the ship captained by Sir Francis Drake, is not where it is meant to be. This makes the dagger only one of his immediate crises, the number of whi...

Reunited with his sister, who he really wishes would go back to Canterbury, the fourth episode of Dog Days sees Kit Marlowe following up on his wishes to have, in a list of descending priority, tobacco, breakfast, and a sword of some kind - even if it's purely a show piece. This takes him across London Bridge and into Southwark, to The Rose, a rival playhouse and the domain of Philip Henslowe. Hen...

In today's episode of Dog Days , Kit Marlowe finally arrives at work, where he finds the entire company of The Theatre, under Ned Alleyne, awaiting the arrival of his new script: Tamburlaine The Great Part 2. Yet Kit is unwilling to part with his pages until he gets paid. Which is why we find him outside of the Earl of Oxford's rooms, negotiating with a private guard who is as thick as mince while...

On today's episode, we pick up right where yesterday's chapter left off - with Kit Marlowe cracked over the back of the head with a club and bundled into a pure black covered carriage. The person waiting within is cool and calm, despite the summer heat. Old, dying, yet phenomenally powerful, Sir Francis Walsingham is Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State. Like a spider at the heart of a web, he has...

As long heralded, and under the influence of the Canis Dog Star, we warmly present the first installment of our Bonus Series project for August 2025! Set in 1589, Dog Days follows young English playwright, poet, spy and bounder Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe who, when we meet him, is fast asleep and drenched with sweat in his newly-acquired rooms in Norton Folgate, London. Yet, beneath the sweltering s...

Well hello, hey, and hi there - we're currently at Black Shuck Festival in Suffolk doing a whole bunch of Three Ravens-related stuff, but, as it has been over a month since the end of Series 6, we thought that today, on Lammas Day, we might release this little update episode about what's been going on with us. To sweeten the deal, we have included excerpts from our two Patreon Exclusive episodes f...

For the final Lang Fairy Tales episode of this 'between series break' we have another double bill for you! We begin with Snow White and Rose Red . And if you thought the recent Disney adaptation missed the mark compared to the original, you need to check out the original and imagine how different and brilliant a film they could have made. Then it's time for another tiddler: Toads and Diamonds , wh...

Come inside, children! Today, to start a new week with a bang, we present an all-time Hall of Fame fairytale: Hansel and Gretel . If you listened to Little Thumb last week, note how this time it's the father who is sympathetic instead of the mother; also, while 'Little Thumb' encountered a masculine flesh-eating other, this week it's a feminine one. They're partner tales - but not the same one. Wh...

And for our final Lang Fairy Tale of the week, we warmly recommend The Forty Thieves . It's a story that starts with two brothers, then becomes a spiral of theft, depression, chalk drawings, and cold blooded murder. Say what you like about Ali Baba, but Morgiana is the real hero here! If you are unfamiliar with the Lang Fairy Tales, these seminal collections were assembled between 1889 and 1913 by...

People know him by many names, but, according to Nora Lang, he was called Little Thumb - and he was a clever chap! Settle in for a legend of terrible parents (though a more sympathetic mother ) along with an Ogre, his wife, and his daughters, and the anticipated consumption of human flesh... If you are unfamiliar with the Lang Fairy Tales, these seminal collections were assembled between 1889 and...