Where To Next? By Dan Kieran

Where To Next? Extra Episode - Tom Blue Wolf

This was an unexpected joy. Mike Warwick [https://substack.com/profile/17889134-mike-warwick], who has taken over presenting duties on Where To Next? while I record my second series, asked if I would like to co-interview Tom Blue Wolf, a storyteller, indigenous elder and earthkeeper. Appropriately enough, Tom’s book The Great Remembering [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Remembering-Tom-Blue-Wolf/dp/B0FYZB5T6R/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3K4IU5QFMKJFL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Px3iUrD9dCiFHsMeJY7sOB2kKrnoZM97BV4loqWrUOidRlBoETt7R1rCBQquqFL4cMP12RKw9xptwblH2MMdALN22Yfv6jnVAQg_GKqO5B-EhgDUp1MFhJ-AUtM7EuU45LpwZOteRR9Tu3clouD2VHL47ZF1hpEiDSnaq8cz0yM0-PMWKLYBx-X4tlMJ0u7qnt9edu_MJENLToXaTHa_xz81BNy3NlO_Zm7bUoxWfCc.QzSvhZJUwKEZfqH62IZhFO2nCuNu1ok5wTd4gsDU1VA&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+great+remembering&qid=1773565629&sprefix=The+Great+Remembering%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-2] is a beautiful reminder of the wisdom that humans seem to understand intuitively in all cultures where their ancestral link is unbroken. Tom lives in a place his ancestors have called home for thirty thousand years. This is the first of two episodes, and I will add the second next week. You can listen to all of Mike’s episodes of the show in the archive section of the Do Lectures Radio app that you can download here [https://thedolectures.com/do-radio/]. Mike and I are enjoying what my wife affectionately refers to as a ‘bro-mance’ so expect more shows from us together in the future. We are beginning to think about doing some live with an audience as well. And we are planning a Where To Next? Workshop (currently titled How To Become a Real Human Being) that will take place in London in May. More details on that soon I hope. Till next week! Much love, Dan This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dankieran.substack.com/subscribe [https://dankieran.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Where to Next? Belonging in England part four

It took four episodes and an exploration of 11,000 years of the continuous habitation of these islands since the end of the last ice-age, but in this recording John Grigsby [https://substack.com/profile/142933448-john-grigsby] and I finally reach 430 AD and the arrival of the English. I love all the conversations I have had with John so far but there are so many wonderful things in this episode. We discuss how language may have created the separation from nature that has left the English so lost in their own land. Tolkien’s determination to create a mythology for these islands after the invasion of William the Conqueror led to the eradication of ours and the hints from Chaucer about what that lost mythology might have been. If you are enjoying the show, please consider becoming a paid supporter. If you can’t afford that, please leave a review [https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/where-to-next-by-dan-kieran/id1868757100] on the page for the show on Apple Podcasts instead. That will really help! I’m making great progress so far with series two. I will share more updates on that soon. Much love, Dan This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dankieran.substack.com/subscribe [https://dankieran.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Where to Next? Belonging in England Part three

The hunter gatherer paradise that was Mesolithic in Britain comes to an end as two waves of farmers arrive from 4,000 BC, bringing with them a new technology and way of life. This is the sixteenth episode of my Do Lectures Radio [https://thedolectures.com/do-radio/] Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who discover it in the future and want to go back to the start, and for those who want to re-listen to the wisdom of my guests that does seems to bloom on a second and third listening. That has been the case for me, anyway. This episode was first broadcast on Do Radio on December 22nd. As always, please share it with anyone you think might find it illuminating. Much love, Dan This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dankieran.substack.com/subscribe [https://dankieran.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Where to Next? Belonging in England, part two

In this episode we talk about how the ending of the last ice age may have informed mythologies our ancient ancestors used to make sense of themselves and the world as it changed around them. John explains how he can locate myths in time using the movement of stars over millennia. We also talk about how our mesolithic ancestors lived according to the lunar monthly calendar rather than an annual, solar one that became dominant after the emergence of agriculture and how this coincided with the shift away from a more egalitarian way of life to a more patriarchal one. This is the fifteenth episode of my Do Lectures Radio [https://thedolectures.com/do-radio/] Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who discover it in the future and want to go back to the start, and for those who want to re-listen to the wisdom of my guests that does seems to bloom on a second and third listening. That has been the case for me, anyway. This episode was first broadcast on Do Radio on December 15th. As always, please share it with anyone you think might find it illuminating. Much love, Dan This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dankieran.substack.com/subscribe [https://dankieran.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Where to Next? Belonging in England, part one

While I’m taking a break from travelling around the country to record my interview episodes, John Grigsby and I got together to have a series of conversations about what it means to be English and to belong in the nation known as Britain. In these sessions we track when people first arrived here after the last ice age nearly twelve thousands years ago, and from when these islands have been continuously populated ever since. We journey through our Hunter gatherer ancestors of the mesolithic to the beginnings of the neolithic when Britain was still connected to Europe by a bridge of land known as Doggerland. Using a mix of archeology, anthropology, myth and our own imaginations we try to make sense of where we, the English, originally came from. This is the fourteenth episode of my Do Lectures Radio [https://thedolectures.com/do-radio/] Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who discover it in the future and want to go back to the start, and for those who want to re-listen to the wisdom of my guests that does seems to bloom on a second and third listening. That has been the case for me, anyway. This episode was first broadcast on Do Radio on December 8th. As always, please share it with anyone you think might find it illuminating. Much love, Dan This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dankieran.substack.com/subscribe [https://dankieran.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]