Wheel of the Year: Autumn Equinox

In the witches' wheel of the year,  the autumn equinox is an important holiday, dedicated to the time of the fruit harvests, falling leaves and lengthening nights. Tonight explores the way witches see this time, and how they mark it.

Rebecca Beattie is a long-standing practitioner of Western magical methods; she is a Wiccan priestess and a friendly, engaged tutor. In her research life, she is a doctoral researcher working on the modernist writer Mary Webb.