Into the Greenwood: A Podcast About Robin Hood

13/03/2025

Michael Sheen out there embodying that WWRHD mentality! 🏹

Da iawn, syr!

The Welsh actor is rightly indignant as he meets people struggling with debts in his home town … then devises an elaborate ploy to pay them off using his own cash. You can’t help but root for him

08/03/2025

International Women's Day seems like a good day to put out this reminder about the survey for the Maid Marian Legacy Project!
https://maidmarianlegacy.co.uk/
Open for the rest of the month!!!

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08/03/2025

Happy International Women's Day!

On Into the Greenwood we try to spotlight women both from history and fiction that intersect with Robin Hood.

We also interview researchers & authors such as .bsky.social, .bsky.social, & .bsky.social to name just a few!

04/03/2025

Happy Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day/Mardi Gras to those who celebrate!!!

And also to those who just want an excuse to eat pancakes... 🥞

It's Pancake Day, yes it's pancake day, yes it's P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P Pancake day! - Classic I laugh every time I watch this. Maid Marian & Her Merry Men - Pancak...

02/03/2025

I'm excited to see that Nottingham is putting together a piece of public art that will be focused around the figure of Maid Marian!
They're looking for public input before soliciting artists, so now is your chance to have a say in the project!

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27/02/2025

I'm getting increasingly excited for this show!!!

It would be great to score an interview with someone involved with the production.

Lauren McQueen has been cast as the female lead opposite Jack Patten in MGM+‘s upcoming series Robin Hood.

26/02/2025

In the most recent Splitting Arrows episode of 'Into the Greenwood', George Segal became the 20th version of Robin Hood to get added to our ongoing ranked list! 📜

Listen to the episode on The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood to see how well out first true parody version of the character fared! 😁

21/02/2025

George Segal as Robin Hood!

Morgan Fairchild as Maid Marian!

Janet Suzman as Eleanor of Aquitaine!

Roddy McDowall as Prince John!

Tom Baker as Guy of Gisbourne!

'The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood' has a stellar, if somewhat unconventional, cast!!!

But how does this low-budget 1980s precursor to 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' hold up?

Listen to the latest episode of Into the Greenwood to find out!

15/02/2025

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfshead?

Celebrated actor George Segal put on the green tights in a 1984 comedy that in many ways feels like a precursor to 1993's 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights'.

Patreon backers get early access to our roundtable discussion of the film and how we square the circle of adding a parody version of Robin Hood to our ongoing ranking of all the film Robins out there!

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12/02/2025

In case you didn't know, MGM+ has green-lit a new Robin Hood show.

I hope that you'll indulge me in a bit of wish casting with something like Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
How great would that be?

Oh wait....

Sean Bean has joined the upcoming "Robin Hood" series at MGM+, Variety has learned.

11/02/2025

The next 'Splitting Arrows' episode of the podcast takes aim at a 40 year old Robin Hood parody.

Do you have a favorite comedic take on Robin Hood that ISN'T 'Men in Tights'?

07/02/2025

The king most popularly associated with Robin Hood (albeit not through any original sources) takes center stage in the new episode of Into the Greenwood.

Although, it's the private life of Richard the Lionheart that dominates the discussion with medieval historian Hilary Rhodes, author of the article 'Richard the Lionheart, Contested Queerness, and Crusading Memory'.

06/02/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8YJZ7c2SNY

This video sums up just some of the reasons why this version of Robin needed an entire bonus episode of the Into the Greenwood podcast when .bsky.social and I ranked him as part of our ongoing list with every film version of Robin Hood out there.

Do the greatest heroes have the biggest hearts? Can roguish courage and gentle, fatherly kindness coexist in one man? Why does Robin Hood still feel so speci...

29/01/2025

As you may have noticed (and please subscribe if you haven't!), Into the Greenwood has been on a bit of a break as we catch up with life during this crazy January.

But we have episodes in the works for February and beyond, so stay tuned!!! 🏹

27/01/2025

At this point I've read a LOT of Robin Hood stories, including some pretty strange ones.

The weirdest, though, has to be from a book 100 years ago where Robin disguises himself as a giant teddy bear and gets into a high-speed car chase with the Sheriff of Nottingham!!!
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24/01/2025

Tonight Rick and I recorded our ranking for the 20th performance of Robin Hood we've come across during the Splitting Arrows series on Into the Greenwood.

I will send a prize (of unspecified quality or value) to anyone who can guess which actor played our 20th Robin Hood!!!

23/01/2025

In 2025 we're going to continue our 'Splitting Arrows' series where Richard Hopkins-Lutz and I watch (nearly) EVERY Robin Hood film/series in chronological(ish) order, but we might also start a 'Side Targets' series that looks at films that somehow recontextualize RH or otherwise feel adjacent to that character and story.

Are there any that you'd recommend?

23/01/2025

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'In word and in deed' 🏹

Another year begins as I gird my loins, don the tights and set off on the Outlaw trail.
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Robin Hood Town Tour 8 Feb 2025 2pm Ends 4.30 ish with fine ales at Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem 🍻

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