Tanners Hatch Hostel

11/10/2026

It’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Here’s Tanners peeping out from the woods, seen from Polesden Lacey.

Fingers crossed we might have some big news for you soon!

14/09/2026

In our final extract from Nod’s Soul Music appearance she brings us up to date, and looks to the future day when we’ll be singing Wild Mountain Thyme at the newly re-opened Tanners Hatch!

13/09/2026

The song at the heart of last Saturday’s Soul Music was Wild Mountain Thyme and here Nod explains its special place in the hearts of Tanners folk

12/09/2026

More about music nights….

12/09/2026

So today’s storytelling from Nod takes us to the heart of what Tanners is about for many of us - making music together

11/09/2026

Today’s snippet from Nod’s interview for Radio 4’s Soul Music takes us to probably the most important person in the hostel’s history…..

09/09/2026

You might have heard our Nod talking about Tanners, Graham, and the song Wild Mountain Thyme on Radio 4’s Soul Music on Saturday. Not all of her interview was used so we’re going to be running a few extracts over the next few days, as it’s a great story and she tells it beautifully. Here she is talking about how at Tanners she found somewhere where she could be exactly who she is, which is something countless others have felt there.

05/09/2026

Hope you heard our Nod on Soul Music this morning. Here’s a shout out to Maggie Ayre, a skilled interviewer and lovely person who helped Nod tell her story. We’ll be posting excerpts from the interview over the next few days. https://www.instagram.com/maggsa/

04/09/2026

And here’s a taster for tomorrow’s BBC Radio 4 episode of Soul Music - see post below. Nicole describes how she and her friends discovered Tanners Hatch at the age of 16.
(Radio 4 Soul Music ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’, 10.30am Sat 5th September https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316j9 )

02/09/2026

This is going to be worth listening to!! Nicole Lazarus (aka Nod) is one of the people leading our efforts to reopen Tanners. This Saturday she can be heard on the excellent Radio 4 series, Soul Music, talking about the much-loved song Wild Mountain Thyme, and the memories it evokes for her of discovering, as an awkward teenager, a whole new world of folk music and hostelling at Tanners Hatch.

Nod is a first-rate story teller and Soul Music is always a good listen

This Saturday at 10.30 am. Radio 4

Will Ye Go Lassie Go?