Mythos and the impossibility of logically understanding the Mabinogi. Deep time and wide landscape are the warp an weft of mythology.
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What is the power of storytelling and what is its power over us? Award-winning international storyteller Michael Harvey uses the stories of the Mabinogi from his home turf to try and answer these and other questions from the point of view of a working storyteller.
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Storyteller Michael Harvey answers questions about mythology, the Mabinogion, and storytelling following an online performance of Taliesin for A Bit Crack storytelling club, based in Newcastle.
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The story of Branwen from the Mabinogi told by Michael Harvey with songs and music by Pauline Down
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A wide-ranging conversation between Michael Harvey and Angharad Wynne about the Mabinogi and its wonderful, magical and strange stories.
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Things are not always what they seem. An accidental encounter with a pig can sometimes turn out to be so much more.
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Tamar Williams talks to Michael about her abiding interest in the stories of the Mabinogion, from encountering them as a child to telling them as a professional storyteller.
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Searching for one story about one Welsh mythological ox, storyteller Michael Harvey found many more
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A celebration o f the work of illustrator Margaret Jones and her influence on storytellers who tell stories from the Mabinogion.
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Katy Cawkwell talks to Michael Harvey about her creative and storytelling journey working on the story of Rhiannon from the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi and how she dealt with the non-linearity of the narrative and the intrusions of Annwfn - the Welsh Otherworld.
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Michael Harvey talks to dramaturg Paula Crutchlow about the process of developing and creating the show Dreaming the Night Field, a groundbreaking storytelling performance based on Welsh Mythology with the production company Adverse Camber
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Storyteller and melodeon player Guto Dafis talks to Michael Harvey about telling the Third Branch of the Mabinogi. Probably the most mysterious of all four branches of a deeply mysterious and magical cycle of stories, Guto has worked on this stories over a number of years. He is particularly fascinated by the character of Manawydan
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An overall positive and occaisionally grumpy response to the British Museum’s ‘Celts - art and identity’ exhibition.
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Spending a couple of days on an island nature reserve lets you slow right down and just be with the nature around you and reinvigorates the lanscape mythology that you took for granted.
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An interview with illustrator, storyteller and event creator Peter Stevenson talking about image, story, memory and landscape.
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Cyfweliad gyda’r storïwr Dafydd Davies Huges, dyn sy’n nabod tirwedd Cymru yn well na neb.
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You can find all the interviews with the storytellers I talked to for the first series of Mabinogi Monday right here.
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Cardiff based storyteller Cath Little talks about her storytelling practice with some fascninating insights on the little-told ‘romances’ of the Mabinogi, particularly Iarlles y Ffynnon / The Lady of the Fountain and Geraint and Enid.
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