Three Ravens Folk Tales Publicity Pack

This page is intended for use by event organisers on the book tour connected to the release of Three Ravens Folk Tales (via The History Press) by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux.

The tour will commence 2nd August 2025 and won't be over until we have recorded Live Shows in all 39 of England's historic counties!

Unless otherwise specifically arranged, most events on the tour will take the format of a two-hour podcast recording, including:

An approximately 1 hour 30-minute podcast recording, with 15-minute interval (though show length can be tailored)
A first half of the performance including a welcome and light-hearted discussion of several elements of local history, heritage, and folklore to suit the locality, venue, and time of year. Museum and historic place publicity is a must for us!
A second half of the performance including the telling of a short story based on a local folk tale by Eleanor or Martin, followed by a discussion of the tale’s origins and key themes
Eleanor and Martin will be accompanied by a musician, usually Ben Harber, who, in addition to performing the theme song live with Eleanor, will also perform at least one other place-appropriate folk song with her, and will provide live underscoring for the storytelling section
A post-recording Questions and Answers session with the audience
Pre or post-show Book Signings and Photo Opportunities with members of the audience

OPTIONAL: Story Writing Workshops

As highly experienced educators and professional writers, Eleanor and Martin run workshops regularly and have done for years through Rust & Stardust Productions.

Our Three Ravens Folk Tales workshops, which are about folk symbolism, story structure, and folk literary traditions, can be tailored to groups of adults, children, or families, and all we need is a space with tables and chairs - so when you get in touch, let's talk possibilities!

FORGOTTEN MELODIES LIVE

In addition to more traditional 'sit down' podcast events, our folk music series Forgotten Melodies works very well live, featuring themed folk songs, live music, poetry, and performance aspects tailored to suit your event.

As with our regular 'Live Shows' we aim to record and release these performances as audio podcasts for our listeners around the world.

CONTACT

threeravenspodcast@gmail.com

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IMPORTANT: Each Live Show on the tour will be released as a podcast recording via the Three Ravens podcast RSS feed, and shared with our growing audience of tens of thousands of listeners worldwide, driving future publicity for and attendance to venues, exhibitions, and events.

We also have a Merchandise Booth through which we can sell copies of the book, along with a selection of other Three Ravens merchandise (see examples here).

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A General Introduction to Three Ravens Folk Tales

The Three Ravens Podcast launched in March 2023, and within a year had become one of the Top 1% of podcasts globally.

Episodes follow hosts Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, two award-winning writers, as they explore the folklore and legends of England’s 39 historic counties, retelling a traditional story from that county, and exploring diverse aspects of folk culture.

Growing by word of mouth, during the podcast’s second year Three Ravens entered the Top 10 of the UK Fiction Podcast Charts, peaking at #8 and overtaking BBC series including The Archers, The Battersea Poltergeist, and The Lovecraft Investigations, achieving over 350,000 downloads.

In Summer 2025, with their sixth series and first book released in hardback with The History Press, Three Ravens spent a week in the Top 10 of the UK Fiction Podcast Charts, peaking at #6, and passing the milestone of half a million downloads.

This is in addition Three Ravens now being ranked by podcast aggregator Goodpods as an All-Time Top 50 English Podcast, an All-Time Top 10 Myths Podcast, and an All-Time Top 5 Short Stories Podcast

From 2024 Eleanor and Martin also began appearing on local radio across the country to discuss aspects of England’s folklore, including on BBC Five Live, the James O'Brien Show on LBC, over a dozen regional BBC stations, and they were also invited to appear at the Chichester Festival, performing their first Three Ravens Live Show.

This was followed by a second live appearance at Battle Folk & Fable Festival, a partnership deal with Three Spirit Drinks, collaborations with London Museum, and a growing list of upcoming events including appearances at Black Shuck Festival 2025, several book shops and Gloucester History Festival 2025.

Their first book, Three Ravens Folk Tales, published in hardback by The History Press in July 2025, collects the first 39 Three Ravens stories – one from every historic county in England – and features a diverse range of legends retold in a family-friendly style, including those of local mermaids and monsters, witches and ghosts, vampires, giants, and half-forgotten English heroes.

Example of Three Ravens Live Shows:

About Eleanor and Martin

Eleanor and Martin are a married couple who live in Sussex.

Eleanor completed her BA in English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, and earned her MA in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at Kings College and Shakespeare’s Globe.

After leaving The Globe, she founded theatre company Rust & Stardust, which tours original work and education projects rooted in English folklore all over the UK. In 2021, she won the Dead Cat Poetry Prize.

Martin completed his BA in English at the University of Exeter, winning National Student Television Awards for comedy and directing.

He later earned his PGCE from the University of Buckingham and his MA in Romantic and Victorian Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, winning the BBC Moo! New Writers Prize in 2009 while working as a part-time teacher, freelance journalist, and radio presenter.

In 2011 he co-created the UK Games Expo award-winning Lords of War fantasy card game, and in 2021 was highly commended in the International Keats-Shelley Essay Prize.

Both Eleanor and Martin are highly experienced actors and performers with diverse experience of appearing on the radio, stage, TV and film, and have appeared on BBC TV and local and national radio.