The Heart of Storytelling

The Heart of Storytelling

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.

Episodes

May 14, 2025 49 mins
Daniel Abercrombie is the Head of Programming at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh and the Associate Director for the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, which takes place throughout Scotland each October. He has over 15 years of experience in events programming, working in partnership with a wide range of artists and cultural organisations in Scotland and internationally, focussing his work on collaboration a...
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Marcus Pibworth is a storyteller who uses story to entertain, explore the magic of the world, and facilitate change. Two years ago he moved with his wife and two young daughters to the foothills of the Black Mountains just on the English side of the Welsh border, where he has been working tirelessly to explore the intersection between story and the natural world, rewild and restory 10acres of land, and use the ancient wisdom of sto...
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April 16, 2025 54 mins
Lucia L. Luckett-Kelly , solopreneur, the founder and owner of Phantasy Staircase Education is an Educator, Creative Dramatic Instructor and Storyteller.She has been teaching students of all ages and backgrounds for over 30 years and has been performing for even longer.Lucia has made appearances at schools, park districts, libraries, churches, museums, bookstores, restaurants, private family homes, and art festivals, in person and ...
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April 3, 2025 58 mins
Donald Smith is a storyteller of Scotland. Inspired by his time at the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh, Donald became Director of The Netherbow Arts Centre and founding Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre. He is a longstanding activist in Earth Charter International, and co-founder of The Earth Stories Collection. Donald is currently Director of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival but also a busy suppo...
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March 20, 2025 53 mins
Michael has told stories both as a solo performer and with other artists throughout the UK and Europe as well festivals in North and South America. Most of his work is in either English or Welsh and he specialises in bilingual delivery of stories.

He is a familiar performer in the UK festival and club scene and draws particular inspiration from the Welsh oral heritage and landscape. He  combines depth of material with lightness of d...
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March 6, 2025 63 mins
Laura is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, writer, coach, and humanitarian. She combines traditional stories with personal narrative. She is artistic Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center, and served as a Senior Research Fellow for Rutgers University Peace Center under the auspices of UNESCO. Laura won the Sesame Street SUNNY DAYS AWARD for work with children worldwide, received the Hasbro September 11...
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February 20, 2025 41 mins
Melissa Min is one of West Australia’s most prominent storytellers. She works with language, myth and story to evoke a deep sense of connection, belonging and healing. Melissa is a passionate advocate for bringing creative and artistic practices to community spaces. She facilitates storytelling events, poetry circles and creative writing sessions throughout Perth and the South West of WA. 
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February 6, 2025 48 mins
Kavita breathes stories and is a passionate professional storyteller. She facilitates storytelling experiences for children and adults utilising various storytelling techniques and art therapies methods. Her lively storytelling performances using different storytelling styles keep people of all ages spell-bound. Her repertoire of stories includes a wide range of Indian and other Asian folktales, European fairy tales, Personal and F...
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January 23, 2025 50 mins
“Do Scéalaí Ceanadach le Scéalta Éireannacha!”
“Your Canadian Teller of Irish Tales!”Brian Walsh is a professional storyteller specializes in Irish Folktales and Mythology as a source of wisdom and humor, discomfort and delight.  Brian’s background is in Psychotherapy, World Religions, and Celtic Studies. He has told at diverse venues including the Toronto International Storytelling Festival, the Niagara Irish Festival, Schools/Univ...
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Brenda moved to Perth from England with her family in 1970. She wears many hatsincluding retired librarian, oral storyteller and writer of poetry and short stories.In the 70s she enrolled at WAIT (now Curtin University) in Library Studies. Duringthis time she worked in high school libraries and discovered the Storytelling Guild ofWA in 1983, of which she is a Life Member. After graduating she started her ownbusiness, combining libr...
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December 26, 2024 44 mins
Jenni is a nationally recognised storyteller and educator with thirty years experience, now based in Meanjin, or Brisbane. Jenni tells her stories eye to eye and heart to heart, engaging listeners with her warm, welcoming and expressive style. Jenni toured schools in Australia and New Zealand for seven years and has five award-winning story albums. She has been an invited presenter and workshop leader at online storytelling gatheri...
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December 12, 2024 34 mins
Marion spent many hours in the evening as a child sitting on the lap of her mother reading stories. When she encountered the Art of Storytelling in 2013 it was evident. This was the craft of her heart! She went in 2018 studying Storytelling at Emerson college in England. As her craft grew she traveled to many places telling stories until she landed in the northern part of Italy where she settled. Today, Marion is creating her own e...
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November 27, 2024 39 mins
Donna Jacobs Sife is a writer, award-winning storyteller and peace -worker. From the United Nations to Woodford Folk Festival, her considerable international reputation is built on her capacity to bridge difference within our societies, our communities or ourselves. For nearly three decades she has travelled widely throughout the world teaching and telling stories.www.Donnajacobsife.comWatch donna tell a storyhttps://www.youtube.co...
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November 13, 2024 37 mins
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, Trick...
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October 30, 2024 35 mins
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 na...
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October 16, 2024 37 mins
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.
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October 3, 2024 43 mins
Durgah Devi Palanisamy (Dee) is an international, multicultural storyteller and educator from Singapore, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Her boundless passion for the art of storytelling radiates through her captivating narratives, engaging and creating connections worldwide. She shares her love for Asian folktales and stories with audiences of all ages. With a background in speech and drama education, she skillfully weave...
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September 19, 2024 58 mins
Anna Jarrett is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, inspirational speaker,published author, recording artist, story consultant, teacher, trainer, writer andoutdoor guide, living on the south coast NSW, on Yuin country. With 35 years ofexperience in creative arts, performance, media production and education, Anna hasbeen a featured teller at storytelling events in USA, Singapore, New Zealand andaround Australia. Most recently ...
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September 5, 2024 51 mins
Jackie was born in Melbourne and set up home here in Newport almost 30 years ago after living in nearly every State and Territory in Australia, She’s been an actress and worked in theatre, film and television. A desire to choose which stories to tell led her to oral storytelling and later - to writing. To date, she’s written five non-fiction picture books for children. Jackie is passionate about the value of collaboration and build...
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August 22, 2024 53 mins
Rachel Hedman competed in storytelling as a sophomore high schooler in 1994. Everything went wrong with her first telling, and she considered quitting. By senior year, she received 5th in State (Wisconsin) for Storytelling. Rachel launched the BYU Storytelling Club as a freshman; it earned the Service Award. She became the first recipient of the J.J. Reneaux Mentorship grant from the National Storytelling Network, training with Don...
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