Introducing Fairies and Fairyland

Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the Modern Fairies
project and talk about traditional imaginings of fairyland.
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield in conversation about traditional
British tales about fairies. In this first episode they talk about
the ways in which mortals come into contact with the fairies, what
happens when humans are taken into the Other World – the strange
tricks that time plays, the dangers that human-fairy encounters
run. They also introduce the Modern Fairies project in which
writers, musicians and artists come together to make new creative
responses to the fairy themes explore and outlines in the series.
Brian McMahon reads some excerpts from the tales about fairies that
are focused on this episode.