The third Ted Hughes Society Podcast centred around Mark Wormald's The Catch. In this episode, West Country storyteller and writer Martin Shaw retells the legend of The Salmon of Knowledge; scholar and poet Katherine Robinson tells to story of the ancestry, conception and birth of the great Welsh bard Taliesin; storyteller and author Liz Weir tells her version of The White Trout a tragic tale of murder, lost love and transformations from County Mayo; and scholars and poets Mark Wormald and Terry Gifford tell of their shared experience of seeing a pod of salmon from the Toombeola Bridge in County Galway.

'Floral Tribute' by Simon Armitage can be read at https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/floral-tribute-by-simon-armitage/. 'The Salmon of Knowledge' is taken from Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems (2020)by Martin Shaw and Tony Hoagland, published by Graywolf Press. Mabinogion Legends: Kilwch and Owen, Peredur, Lludd and Llevelys, Taliesin (1992) Translated by Charlotte Guest is published by Llanerch Publishers. 'The White Trout' is from the CD Liz Weir: The Glen of Stories, availablefrom [email protected]. The Catch (2022) by Mark Wormald is published by Bloomsbury. Terry Gifford's poem 'A Shoaling at Toombeoloa Bridge' is in the collection A Feast of Fools (2018) available from [email protected].

The extract from Camille Saint-Saens's Carnival of The Animals is performed by Neal O'Doan and Nacy O'Doan (pianos) and The Seatle Youthg Orchestra conducted by Vilem Sokol. (This extract is reproduced under Creative Commons licence IMSLP: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0.)

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