The Heart of Storytelling

By: Alyssa Curtayne
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  • In this podcast, we will explore the art of oral storytelling; looking at its history, its relevance today and discovering storytellers who are passionate about bringing stories to you in the oral form. Each week we hear from a new storyteller who will bring a story to life and share their journey into this traditional artform.
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Episodes
  • Dave Tonge and interpreting history

    Dave Tonge and interpreting history
    Nov 14 2024
    Dave Tonge is a jobbing teller of tales. An itinerant journeyman who performs at festivals,museums, heritage sites and schools. From Lindisfarne Holy Island in the north, to ArundelCastle in the south, he works regularly for English Heritage and national museums like theAshmolean and British Museum. He has written three books, Tudor Folk Tales, NorfolkFolk tales for Children and Medieval Folk tales for Children, with a forth, Trickster TalesFrom Many Lands, due in 2025. Dave specialises in telling period rich and often irreverenttales shared by the poorer folk long ago, at heritage sites and is particularly interested inbringing storytelling to wider non storytelling audiences. But he can also be heard atstorytelling events including Taffy Thomas’s Tales in Trust, Festival at the Edge and SettleStorytelling Festival. That said, many of his performances still have an historical flavourwith sets like Tavern Yard Tales and Dame Fortunes Wheel.https://www.facebook.com/dave.tonge.3https://www.instagram.com/davetongestoryteller/Copies of my books can be brought via the History Press Website..
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/tudor-folk-tales/9780750991643/
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/norfolk-folk-tales-for-children/9780750984812/
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/medieval-folk-tales-for-children/9780750990943/
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    38 mins
  • Phil Greenwood and sacred landscapes

    Phil Greenwood and sacred landscapes
    Oct 31 2024
    Philip Greenwood is the founder and creative director of Sacred Earth Community Benefit Society, working through the mediums of deep nature connection, earth wisdom and ancient healing practices and processes. For the last 25 years i have been on a journey of restoration, healing myself while healing and working on restoring a disused industrial land site back into a nature sanctuary for people to connect to self, others and the natural world. Storytelling is part of my Craft as we discover what it means to be a whole hearted human being.www.sacredearthland.co.uk
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    35 mins
  • Liz Locksley and telling a new story

    Liz Locksley and telling a new story
    Oct 17 2024
    Liz is a storyteller and narrator of systems for life: food, water, energy, movement, community, hope, and spirit of the land.
    An engineer by training, and a storyteller by provenance, Liz grew up between worlds. Between Manchester's swagger of industrial ingenuity and a remote valley in the Yorkshire Dales where folk spoke in Norse dialect and roaring becks flowed with peat-brown water, coloured with tannins from ancient mosses.
    20 years ago, Liz was called by the far away land of Australia through memories of her Granny's tape-recorded tales of life in the Australian bush.

    Liz is an environmental consultant and sustainability project manager at City of Canada Bay Council.You can see her website here: Thrive Story
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    38 mins

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