Welcome to the eighteenth episode of The Thunder Mutters, our Valentine special, giving you a taster of projects we have been involved in since the last podcast series. This episode features extracts of poetry from 'Love and Other Fairy Tales', written and performed by Adam Horovitz, and traditional tunes from Becky's album, 'Take Her Out and Air Her' arranged and performed by Becky Dellow on fiddles and piano, with accompaniment by Lukas Drinkwater and vocals Milly Dellow. As usual, our...

Welcome to the seventeenth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'March' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated. This is our final episode featuring Clare’s ‘Shepherd’s Calendar’ and we will be having a month off in...

Welcome to the sixteenth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'February ' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We will return next month with March, our final episode from...

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'January' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We will return next month with February, so please come back...

Welcome to the fourteenth episode of The Thunder Mutters, a bonus December episode featuring readings by Adam Horovitz, two acapella settings of Clare's poems composed by Jess Nock and interspersed with tunes performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We will return next year with January from Clare's poem 'The...

Welcome to the thirteen episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'December' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We will return next week for a bonus Christmas episode, so...

Welcome to the twelfth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'November' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We will return extremely shortly in ber with the next episode, so...

Welcome to the eleventh episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'October' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We will return extremely shortly in November with the next...

Welcome to the tenth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'September' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We’ll be back in a couple of weeks with the next episode, so...

Welcome to the ninth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'August' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We’ll be taking a break for the rest of this month, but will return...

Welcome to the eighth bumper episode of The Thunder Mutters; part two of our series of responses by living writers and musicians to the work of John Clare We’ll be coming back in a fortnight with John Clare’s ‘August’ from The Shepherd's Calendar but, in the meantime, please do continue to send in your recordings of tunes and poems. If you are enjoying The Thunder Mutters, please consider putting the price of a coffee towards production costs by sponsoring the podcast at...

Welcome to the seventh episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'July' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters). Any contributions much appreciated. We’ll be coming back later this month with another episode featuring...

Welcome to the sixth episode of The Thunder Mutters, performed by you, our listeners. We have thoroughly enjoyed receiving your recorded contributions and plan to present another episode in this vein next month. We’ll be coming back in a fortnight with John Clare’s ‘July’ but in the meantime, please do continue to send in your recordings of tunes and poems. Please consider putting some money towards production costs by sponsoring the podcast at http://www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters...

Welcome to the fifth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'June' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. We’ll be coming back next month with July but the next episode will feature your own contributions, so please come back then and take a listen. Please consider putting some money towards the costs of producing the podcast by buying us a virtual coffee at...

Welcome to the fourth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring poems by Shelley, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with historic tunes researched, arranged and performed by Becky Dellow. If you’d like to put some money in our virtual ‘tip jar’ please visit https://ko-fi.com/thethundermutters (https://ko-fi.com/thethundermutters) We’ll be coming back next episode with John Clare’s ‘June’, from The Shepherd’s Calendar, so please come back then and take a listen. There’s also a sneak...

Welcome to the third episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'May' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. We’ll be coming back next month with ‘June’, but will squeeze in an episode looking at Shelley in a fortnight, so please come back then and take a listen. All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's arrangements...

In Episode Two of The Thunder Mutters Adam and Becky present a selection of John Keats’ poetry, interwoven with tunes from 18th and 19th century fiddlers' manuscripts. The performance of the poems and tunes is presented as a seamless flow, from music to poetry and back, so the titles of poems and tunes, and the histories of the tunes, are given beforehand. We have also listed them in the text below, along with Becky’s sources, for your ease and listening comfort. Tune: Morning Star / Butchers...

Welcome to the first episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring the poem 'April' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar' performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow. We’ll be coming back every month for the next year with the whole of Clare’s calendar, and presenting poems and tunes by other poets and from other tune books in the meantime. All the tunes have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's...