Season 9: Episode 153
We welcome writer and folklore graduate Liza Frank to the Folklore Podcast for an episode looking at the many different ways in which you might be able to combine a bit of folklore into your daily life.
In conversation with Mark Norman, creator and host of The Folklore Podcast, Liza looks at divination, calendar customs, food folklore and lots more ideas which came out of the Everyday Lore Project which she ran for a year through lockdown. Liza also discusses how this material then went on to form the basis of her book Everyday Folklore.
Visit Liza's website at www.liza-frank.com
To support the Folklore Podcast and its work creating and producing accessible folklore content for everyone, please visit www.patreon.com/thefolklorepodcast
We welcome writer and folklore graduate Liza Frank to the Folklore Podcast for an episode looking at the many different ways in which you might be able to combine a bit of folklore into your daily life.
In conversation with Mark Norman, creator and host of The Folklore Podcast, Liza looks at divination, calendar customs, food folklore and lots more ideas which came out of the Everyday Lore Project which she ran for a year through lockdown. Liza also discusses how this material then went on to form the basis of her book Everyday Folklore.
Visit Liza's website at www.liza-frank.com
To support the Folklore Podcast and its work creating and producing accessible folklore content for everyone, please visit www.patreon.com/thefolklorepodcast
Liza started out working in theatre. Amongst other things, she ran The Room Above The Pub in Richmond and assistant stage managed around the world with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
In 2001, she began studying photography. Three years later, her graduation exhibition was commissioned by Bloomsbury and in 2007 became the book My Celebrity Boyfriend. To fund her photography habit (and pay the mortgage) she became a PA, leading to Liza working with Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the RSC as his assistant, and then with David Lan, Artistic Director of the Young Vic.
Liza has been a stills photographer for film and theatre, worked with refugees and asylum seekers, taught literacy and creative writing, and qualified as a children’s shoe fitter. The Billy Ray? Project, a study of sons of preacher men and what they can teach her started in 2006, and has carried on despite all these other things getting in the way.
And on 6 Jan 2021, she finished The Everyday Lore Project, a year long challenge looking at ways to include folklore, superstition and tradition into your everyday life. In October 2023, Liza's second book Everyday Folklore: An almanac for the ritual year was published by Murdoch.
In 2001, she began studying photography. Three years later, her graduation exhibition was commissioned by Bloomsbury and in 2007 became the book My Celebrity Boyfriend. To fund her photography habit (and pay the mortgage) she became a PA, leading to Liza working with Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the RSC as his assistant, and then with David Lan, Artistic Director of the Young Vic.
Liza has been a stills photographer for film and theatre, worked with refugees and asylum seekers, taught literacy and creative writing, and qualified as a children’s shoe fitter. The Billy Ray? Project, a study of sons of preacher men and what they can teach her started in 2006, and has carried on despite all these other things getting in the way.
And on 6 Jan 2021, she finished The Everyday Lore Project, a year long challenge looking at ways to include folklore, superstition and tradition into your everyday life. In October 2023, Liza's second book Everyday Folklore: An almanac for the ritual year was published by Murdoch.