Croeso i bodlediadau sy'n ymdrin â byd y chwedl a chreadigrwydd. The nitty-gritty of storytellingpresented by award-winning, international storyteller Michael Harvey. I'm starting with some interviews with my storytelling colleagues who also tell stories from the Welsh epic cycle of stories the Mabinogi. Most of these are in English and there will also be some in Welsh.Y mae podlediadau Cymraeg wedi eu recordio gyda chyfranwyr sy hefyd wedi cael eu cyfweld yn Saesneg ond noder bod nid fersiy ...
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Phil Okwedy is currently on tour with the production company Adverse Camber with his new show The Gods Are All Here. I say 'new' but this show is a lock-down baby that was a couple of years in creation. I worked with Phil on the show and this is the story about how it grew from a glint in his eye to a funded touring production. This is another fasc…
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A great storytelling discussion with Jane Flood, who was one of the first people I met on my storytelling journey. We talk about landscape and mythology and how they can be dynamic and recognisable parts of our lives and how they can implicate and surprise us in our own daily lives. We discuss how Jane got into storytelling and how a recognition of…
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Award-winning, international storyteller and director Michael Harvey is in conversation with Indian-born, UAE resident, multi-disciplinary artist Shereen Saif. Shereen and Michael have been collaborating over lockdown on a Shereen's new project 'A Woman's Mind' based on the story of Ahalya from the Ramayana. In September they will work together in …
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Sharon Blackie is a writer and teacher who is on a mission to reconnect us to our mythical past and the landscape around us with academic rigour, openness, imagination and humour. This conversation ranges wide and includes an exploration of the Peredur/Perceval story from the Welsh and French Arthurian cannon, a good look at the Cailleach - the wil…
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Mae Dafydd wedi bod yn gyfarwydd gyda'r Mabinogi ers yn blentyn. Mae wedi crwydro'r dirwedd a dod i nabod y straeon a'u gweld nhw'n dod yn fyw wrth droedio'r tir a dod i'w nabod nhw 'trwy sodlau eu traed'. Mae'n gweld y Mabinogi fel rhan o'n hunaniaeth fel Cymry a'r cymeriadau fel drych i ni'n hunain a'r ffordd rydym yn ymddwyn yn y byd. Wrth ymwel…
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Cyfweliad ffraeth a threiddgar gyda'r storïwraig Tamar Eluned Williams www.tamarelunedwilliams.com Mae hi'n sôn am ei thaith o'r theatr i'r chwedl a dod nôl i Gymru a'r deunydd oedd wedi bod yn rhan ohoni eirioed - y Mabinogi. Siaradon ni am rym y chwedlau arnon ni fel rhai sydd yn eu hadrodd a'r effaith ar y gynulleiddfa; natur 'carpiog' naratif y…
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Trafodaeth gyda'r storïwr a'r cerddor Guto Dafis. Siaradon ni am y ffordd mae Guto wedi trin chwedl Manawydan o Drydedd Gainc y Mabinogi a sut mae'n defnyddio y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg ochr yn ochr wrth adrodd, wedi ysbrydoli gan ei fagwraeth dwyieithog.Michael Harvey
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A story from Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love. This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men. In this concluding story…
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The Introduction to Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love. This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men. This introductory…
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A story from Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love. This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men. This story was adapted f…
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A story from Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love. This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men. This story is from the M…
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The seven survivors return to Wales. While they have been away another king has come and seized the throne. The survivors drift into a dreamworld where time stands still. The spell is broken, they return to reality and tell the story.Michael Harvey
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The Hall of Peace is opened and the Irish and Welsh assemble for a feast. Efnisien starts a fight that turns into an all out battle in which nearly everyone is killed. Bendigeidfran and the survivors return home to Wales.Michael Harvey
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Bendigeidfran leads his army over the sea to Ireland to save his sister, Branwen. A truce is declared and a huge feasting hall built that even Bendigeidfran, the giant king, can enter.Michael Harvey
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Efnisien's actions catch up with Branwen. She goes from queen to mistreated servant. She enlists the help of a starling and calls her brother, the giant Bendigeidfran, to her aid.Michael Harvey
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The giant king Bendigeidfran sees ships coming from Ireland. It's Matholwch, the king of Ireland who has an interesting proposal to unite the two families and countries. A feast on Anglesey is arranged but Efnsien, Bendigeidfran's half-brother, is not invited and he takes a bloody and cruel revenge for this insult. This causes problems between the …
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The landscape of Wales and the parts of the country where the story takes place and an introduction to the main characters of the story.Michael Harvey
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Angharad Wynne is a storyteller based in South Wales. She has a particular love for the stories of the Mabinogion and has a clear and deep connection with both the landscape of the stories and the characters in them. She has made a particular study of Rhiannon from the first and third branches. She is an important figure in the contemporary cultura…
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A few minutes of informal conversation between Michael and Tamar about the importance of the Mabinogi and the business of being a storyteller. Mutual support network for storytellers Self-sufficiency vs community The dislocation between social media and what storytelling actually is The importance of rootedness and connectedness that storytelling o…
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Tamar Williams won the national Young Storyteller of the Year award in 2013. She has appeared at festivals such as Whitby Folk Week, Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival, Lakefest, In The Woods Festival and the Birmingham Book Festival. Tamar Williams In this interview Michael and Tamar talked about… Language, habit and identity. T…
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We still had a few moments left before Katy had to go and prepare for her performance and I took the opportunity so show her the images of the figure on top of Carn Ingli. I had the photographs with me on my laptop and they provoked some fascinating observations. Recording in a car gives really good sound quality until a delivery lorry parks beside…
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A conversation with Exeter based storyteller Katy Cawkwell who delved into the Mabinogi for her Festival at the Edge Commission in 2003 with her story of Rhiannon. You can order the CD of Rhiannon, as well as other stories on the shop page on her site. We talked in Bristol just before she had to go and prepare for the show Women Who Gave No F**ks w…
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Paula with sticks and plastic Paula Crutchlow has played a pivotal role in my development as a storyteller over the last ten or so years. We first met her as the dramaturg on the show Hunting the Giant’s Daugher and then asked her back for the show Dreaming the Night Field. Our conversation took place in the garden of the Felin Uchaf Centre on the …
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Luckily we had a few minutes to reflect what we had talked about after the main interview. In just six minutes we talked about… The inclusion of non ‘natural’ objects in Dreaming the Night Field Uncontrolled and harmful human intrusion into the world What we have to learn from Thomas Hardy’s granny Stories happen in the present tense The intimate c…
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Guto Dafis is a storyteller and musician . You can find out more about his music here and his storytelling here. Guto talks about the reasons why he is a great fan of the 3rd Branch of the Mabinogi. Structure. The relation to the 1st and 2nd branches and the Mabinogi and the challenges of getting that information into a live telling of the story so…
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Peter Stevenson has been a major catalyst in the revival of creative interest in the Mabinogi over the last few years, particularly with the two Mabinogi based festivals he organised in Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Y Mabinogi in 2015 and Y Bumed Gainc in 2017. It wasn’t just the artwork, storytelling and music he curated but the people as well. Visual …
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A lively discussion with myself and Peter riffing on many things including the following... Connecting visual imagination and literacy Complexity as richness and abundance Clarity that comes after dealing with complexity over a long time The Mabinogi and other stories as lessons for living Hard won kernel of truth that lies in the stories for us Pl…
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Naomi turned the tables on me in this extra and started asking me questions! I wasn't expecting this and did my best to talk about... Landscape and the Mabinogi Deep listening and embodiment Inhabiting landscape and slowing down Creative Community Storytelling as filmMichael Harvey/Naomi Wilds
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I feel incredibly lucky and priveledged to have worked with producer Naomi Wilds on two Mabinogi inspired shows Hunting the Giant’s Daughter, and Dreaming the Night Field which tour with the production company Adverse Camber, a groundbreaking company that specialises in taking high quality storytelling performances, often with music as a central co…
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In this bonus Cath talks about the effort and graft of making these stories live again. She sees it as challenging and rewarding work and, for her, primarily a process with images. This work takes time and effort and is a re-oralisation putting these tales back in the imagination and hearts of the people, and making them real once more by telling t…
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I really enjoyed my conversation with Fiona. She was one of the first professional UK storytellers and tells with great verve, commitment and humour. She was one of the first people to complete a PhD in storytelling and is a pioneer in the field of education and storytelling and was a founder member of the brilliant and brazen Ogresses storytelling…
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I am really pleased to have had the chance to talk to the Cardiff based storyteller Cath Little and find out more about her practice and how she gets herself into the strange material that is the Mabinogi. Cath runs the Cardiff Storytelling Circle, runs events that celebrate the turning year and is warm and generous storyteller with a great singing…
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I am delighted to present a conversation I had with the storyteller and social enterprise director Dafydd Davies-Hughes who has the good fortune to live in the incomparably beautiful and myth-soaked landscape of the Llŷn Peninsula where he works as a storyteller and is the director of Menter Y Felin Uchaf. Dafydd in action I was particularly intere…
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Here are my responses to questions from Jenny White of the Western Mail prior to a tour of Dreaming the Night Field (aka the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi) with the storytelling production company Adverse Camber.Michael Harvey
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A brief introduction about why I wanted to start asking storyteller's why they were telling stories from the Mabinogi in this day and age and the type of questions I thought I might askMichael Harvey
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