Miranda will guide us through the key stories of Welsh mythic literature, exploring not just their medieval texts but also their ancient roots – texts that question life and death, war and peace, and good and evil. We will meet a cast of heroes and tricksters, animals that can talk and change shape, and magicians and witches who can bring disaster or triumph to the people in their paths. There will be severed heads that speak, birds that can tell the future, cauldrons with magical properties, complex quests and ghostly underworlds where strange and frightening things happen to the humans who visit them.

Miranda Aldhouse-Green has written 26 books on druids, Iron Age and Roman Britain and is the Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University. A former President of the Prehistoric Society, she was the first recipient of the John Legonna Celtic Research Prize, awarded by the National Library of Wales in 1986.