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 fersiynau Cymraeg o'r cyfweliadau Saesneg mohonynt ond eitemau gwahanol.storytelling site https://www.michaelharvey.org/book site https://michael-a-harvey.com/
A few minutes of informal conversation between Michael and Tamar about the importance of the Mabinogi and the business of being a storyteller.
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,…
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, a…
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 …
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 Gian…
Luckily we had a few minutes to reflect what we had talked about after the main interview. In just six minutes we talked about…
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. S…
A lively discussion with myself and Peter riffing on many things including the following...
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 A…
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 producti…
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...
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 ti…
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…
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 Mab…
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 …
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 Ad…
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 ask