Folk on Foot
Hosted by Matthew · Matthew Bannister
4.9from 170 ratings
- 183
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 170
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Folk on Foot
“Modest people, playing gorgeous music, speaking articulately about areas they love. Fabulously calming” – one listener’s description of this multi-award-winning podcast in which Matthew Bannister goes walking with top folk musicians in the landscapes that have inspired them. “A restorative breathing space in sound” – The Telegraph. “Immaculately produced” – The Times Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Matthew Bannister
- Category
- arts · music · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Jul 2018
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 183 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Stornoway on the Gower Peninsula
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Official Folk Albums Chart Show—8th September 2026
23 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Folk on Foot Classic: Martin Simpson in Scunthorpe
Inside a recent episode
Stornoway on the Gower Peninsula
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's a kind of... If you hear our voices individually, we all have really quite different voices, but for some reason, the blend seems to work. And it is definitely something we've worked at, but, yeah, it's something we love to incorporate into a lot of our songs. And I suppose that song is a great example of how you take... the inspiration of this landscape but then turn it into something poetic and different yeah very much so and this is one of the first songs I wrote after moving to Gower and discovering this amazing habitat this salt marsh habitat and it's such a unique open and wild space and I think It was that kind of interaction between the sea and the marsh, coming in and out twice a day, and the kind of relationship that they have. […]
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- Brian Briggs
- Jon
- Oli
- Martin Simpson
- Jenn Butterworth
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 62 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 108 ratings
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Who hosts Folk on Foot?
Matthew host the show. Published by Matthew Bannister.
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