As part of this year’s NeoAncients Festival, author Sam Reid will be in conversation with Jude Rogers discussing his new book ‘The Pin Jar’.

A story-cycle from the deep taproot of the Sussex 'Weald', it is a record of vernacular folk tales as transcribed by the enigmatic composer and amateur ethnographer Francis J. Cardwell, who habitually, compulsively, taped the various stories and songs he encountered in the now lost pubs of his county.