🎄🌞 SOLSTICE: The Real Story of Yule (Alison Mcleay, BBC R4) Folk Horror | Christmas | Winter | Pagan

The original stunning radio play Solstice by Alison Mcleay first broadcast Sat 21st Dec 1985, 10.30pm on BBC Radio 4.
'It is now the Winter Solstice, the night when the sun dies and is reborn: a night of magic, which has more to do with our traditional Christmas celebrations than people might like to admit. Just for tonight, the Shaman lives...'
With the voices of Michael Elder, Diana Olsson and Paul Young.
Produced by Patrick Rayner for BBC Scotland.
This can additionally be found at the end of A Sleigh Ride Through Christmas from Folkways Podcast spoti.fi/3pfx2PB

[@folkwayspodcast]

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄Enjoy another festive offering 👉 bit.ly/3tfugP9

[@ant4307]

Oh my God! This was actually my rip, I recorded it on cassette when it was aired and uploaded it to an online radio torrent site. 😃 Not that I'm annoyed, it's good to see it still has a life. I just wish the BBC would rebroadcast it so we could have a better quality version to listen to.

[@3times_mom]

зі Святим Миколаєм, Різдвом та Новим Роком харків'ян. :)

[@ant4307]

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[@jonhoyle3883]

It's amazing..we know it well...

[@LaoZi2023]

Thank you! We appreciate it!

[@Wintermute4]

On the night of winter solstice, we played it through our single speaker radio with an aux cable, and it was fantastic! Definitely will be a yearly tradition.

[@MossyMozart]

This tale stirs up a primal time, evoking the fear that so many must have felt facing the bitterness of winter, pagan or otherwise. (Unfortunately, there are STILL many people today facing that same winter trepidation and hunger.)

[@cjhooper1811]

I have this on cassette when my father taped it off the radio, a long time ago

[@davezoom2682]

I listened to this long long ago , Christmas Eve , before the radio 4 3pm Carol service .

[@folkwayspodcast]

Wonderful!

[@Warlanda]

what an incredible share; thank you!

[@jordanaz]

Wow so good

[@MrAdamGrainger]

This is fantastic! I hadn't heard it before. Thank you for uploading it. Merry Christmas 🎅

[@folkwayspodcast]

🎅

[@ianjoe14]

Superb, I had this on cassette but it had deteriorated over the years.

[@alibongo5545]

Brilliant thank you 💚❤️💚✨

[@ununun]

Bravo! What a treat. Thank you.

[@folkwayspodcast]

Merry Christmas!

[@michaelwatson5000]

I stumbled on this earlier this season. I love it! I must have listened to it six or eight times this December!

[@KyleWhiteandfriends]

The full version! Good audio quality! Merry Christmas 🎅🏻 🎄 🌬❄️👹🦌 🍄 yule tide joy

[@folkwayspodcast]

This is the best I've found 🙏

[@raygreen5926]

It was on the winter solstice of 1995, that the Solar Temple members went to the forest in France, near the village of St. Pierre de Cherennes, and transcended 🇨🇵🚔🌲

[@woodlandhexXxXx]

😭💚❤️

[@rogerdavid3297]

i first it in 1985, fantastic then .still great now.

[@dorcaswalker1867]

Shame the quality is poor

[@folkwayspodcast]

This is the best you'll find. Compare it to other versions online.

[@alibongo5545]

Brilliant thank you 💚❤️💚✨

[@folkwayspodcast]

Happy Yule