A Cornucopia Of Tales and Tellers

Changes at Hand for Setanta and Oisin

This week we both happen across two Irish tales we think are worth telling. Our characters experience ...a little change by the end of their stories for better or worse.  Setanta grows up and Oisin heads off somewhere.
Enjoy!

Feature Length Interview with Andrew Wright

This week we have a very special episode because joining David, Simona and Alan for the podcast is storyman Andrew Wright.
We cover everything under the sun including - Story maps, the travelling storyteller across the world 55 countries and counting, Story men and women, ceilis in tents, the passing on of the tradition of being and becoming a storyteller, puppets from before the times of TV, being ageless and seeing eternity through stories, upbringing and connection to stories through childhood, selkies, busking around the world, and being travellers ourselves. Amazing!
Andrew has also kindly provided us with a copy of his new publication Story Poems, that teachers can use with students.  If you do use these with students or in any other settings, get in touch with Andrew with the details below to let him know!
Story Poems - click here.
Email: andrew@ili.hu
Andrew has also written books for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press Helbling -
Languages and for the BBC, ITV and WDR, including:Games for Language Learning CUPwith Michael Buckby and David BetteridgePictures for Language Learning CUPFive Minute Activities CUP with Penny UrStorytelling with Children OUPCreating Stories with Children OUPArts and Crafts with Children OUPWriting Stories Helbling Languages with David A. Hill
International Languages Institute info@ili.hu
Beggar in Bogota (short stories)Larger than Life (short stories)It Takes All Sorts to Make a World (short stories)Poems from a lifetime (poems I have written)Story Poems (stories in poetry)
Enjoy!

Catching Rainbows and Emergency Glue

This week Alan and Simona tell three tales, one fish who cant stop eating something, a farmer who finds an unfortunate horse and a little wooden robot who can provide his own stationery.
We would be keen on your feedback for this one - we want your opinions on the content of the stories, not how they are told, but the what is told.  We will discuss this in a future podcast.
Enjoy!

Storytelling and teacher training with Rasheedat and Geraldine - Part 2

We always ask our guests on the podcast to tell us a story, and with Geraldine Nanjala and Rasheedat Sadiq it was no exception - we just tested your patience... listen to their wonderful tales in this episode!
A Cornucopia of Tales and Tellers is a passion project brought to you by English teachers Alan and Simona, who want to create a compilation - or cornucopia if you will - of stories from all around the world and by as many tellers from around the world as possible.  So grab a cup of tea, chai, water or uisce beatha, relax and enjoy hearing tales that have been handed down generations, or even ones that were dreamt up yesterday! Music by Purple Planet.
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Storytelling and teacher training with Rasheedat and Geraldine - Part 1

Joining Alan, Simona and David on the podcast this week are two amazing storytellers, teachers and teacher trainers from Africa - Rasheedat Sadiq from Nigeria and Geraldine Nanjala from Kenya. Listen and learn about how and why they use storytelling with their students and the importance of spreading the joy of storytelling with everyone. 
A Cornucopia of Tales and Tellers is a passion project brought to you by English teachers Alan and Simona, who want to create a compilation - or cornucopia if you will - of stories from all around the world and by as many tellers from around the world as possible.  So grab a cup of tea, chai, water or uisce beatha, relax and enjoy hearing tales that have been handed down generations, or even ones that were dreamt up yesterday! Music by Purple Planet.
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If you like what you hear, you can Buy Us A Coffee to help fund future episodes and the hosting of our podcasts.

The many wonders of storytelling with Amna Burki

All the way from Winnipeg, Canada, the amazing Amna Burki joins us to talk about the many wonders of storytelling - from bringing people together to keeping memory alive. Listen to Amna's deep words about why storytelling is important in so many fields and aspects of our lives as humans. 
A Cornucopia of Tales and Tellers is a passion project brought to you by English teachers Alan and Simona, who want to create a compilation - or cornucopia if you will - of stories from all around the world and by as many tellers from around the world as possible.  So grab a cup of tea, chai, water or uisce beatha, relax and enjoy hearing tales that have been handed down generations, or even ones that were dreamt up yesterday! Music by Purple Planet.
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If you like what you hear, you can Buy Us A Coffee to help fund future episodes and the hosting of our podcasts.

World Storytelling and Poetry Days

Alan, Ewa and Simona join forces to enjoy two international days in one, World Storytelling Day and World Poetry Day.  Simona tells a custom made story while Ewa and Alan celebrate the world of poetry by giving us five poems, classical and contemporary.
Enjoy!

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ort 2023!

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ort 2023! It's St Patrick's Day so of course we had to tell some tales from the Emerald Isle.  Did you know how it came about? And did you hear the one about the King with odd ears? Keep listening and slainte!

Snowgirls Across Continents

We cross continents today for the same story, but told in very different ways, for different purposes - and in fact, not told at all.  Gustavo in Lima, Peru and Bowen in California, USA joins Alan in the Glens of Antrim, Ireland to tell the Snow Girl / The White Maiden / Snegurochka, and give their versions of events, both in the story, and in their own contexts.
Alan discusses why storytelling is the great leveller, and here is some further reading for anyone wanting to read more - Acts as a means of mental health support. (Mannell et al., 2018)Helps develop resilience (East et al., 2010)Successfully used in mental health recovery (Nurser et al., 2018)Is seen as the key to empathy (Manney, 2008)And it gets young learners excited for reading again (Hall, 2021)

The Doric Storyteller

In this episode Simona is helped by the wonderful David Heathfield to interview a common friend - the wonderful, the magnificent, the marvellous Jackie Ross. Jackie is a Storyteller from the North-East of Scotland and in this episode she speaks about her own connection to stories, telling in Doric, cows, toilets and much much more. Enjoy!
 
A Cornucopia of Tales and Tellers is a passion project brought to you by English teachers Alan and Simona, who want to create a compilation - or cornucopia if you will - of stories from all around the world and by as many tellers from around the world as possible.  So grab a cup of tea, chai, water or uisce beatha, relax and enjoy hearing tales that have been handed down generations, or even ones that were dreamt up yesterday! Music by Purple Planet.
Find us on Facebook and Twitter.
If you like what you hear, you can Buy Us A Coffee to help fund future episodes and the hosting of our podcasts.