CDs
Powerful Stories by Rob Parkinson
These thirtyone powerful stories have been selected not just because they are exciting tales but also for their potential to influance. They are all relatively short and the accompanying notes give suggestions for their possible use. Suitable for adults and older children.
Plaging time 2hrs. 30 mins 2 discs
Price: £17.70
Fabulous Fables by Rob Parkinson
Twenty fables from around the world, updated and linked together in racy exciting style by storyteller and musician Rob Parkinson. Suitable for adults and children of all ages.
Playing time 1hr. 17mins.
Price: £10.70
Hagstone Stories by Mike O’Leary
Mrs Durwell was a New Forest commoner, she first told her stories to Mike while he was working as a gardener for the local council in Southampton and she was living in Northam, part of the inner city. Here are variants of well known stories mixed with local tales which were all told by folk around the fire when Mable was a young thing. Suitable for children and adults.
Playing time 40 mins.
Price: £10.70
Tristan and Iseult by Mike O’Connor
Commissioned for the unveiling of Janet Shearer’s murals at Withiel House, this tragic love story, originating in 6th century Cornwall, paves the way for the Arthurian romances. Suitable for adults.
Playing time 42 mins.
Price: £12.70
Tales of the Rood by Mike O’Connor
Eleven Medieval tales drawing on Judaic, Islamic, Romany and Christian oral tradition. Suitable for adults and older children.
Playing time 49 mins.
Price: £12.70
Soul of the fiddle by Mike O’Connor
This cycle of traditional tales and tunes will delight story-lovers and fiddle enthusiasts alike, mixing stories with music from the instrument they tell of. Together music and words take the listener on a journey that is one story and many stories, stories of creation and apocalypse, birth and death, desire and revenge, ultimate evil and ultimate good. Suitable for adults.
Playing time 42 mins.
Price: £12.70
Loki by Mike O’Connor
Half giant - Trickster - Madman - who’s path leads all to Ragnarok. Mike O’Connor’s powerful retelling of these Norse myths captures it all. Suitable for adults.
Playing time 23 mins.
Price: £10.70
Imravoe by Mike O’Connor
This great selkie epic from the Orkneys has the intimacy of a fireside tale but the scope and drama of a stage as wide as the ocean. The story is interspersed with lilting fiddle music. Suitable for adults.
Playing time 44 mins.
Price: £12.70
Company of Dreamers by Mike O’Connor
Eleven Cornish folktales, told with thaditional music from the same county, these short fireside tales will delight the ear and lift the heart. Suitable for adults and children.
Playing time just over 1hr.
Price: £12.70
The Sleeping King by Hugh Lupton, Daniel Morden and Nick Hennessey
Three of Britain’s storytellers explore some of the most famous tales of these islands using the medium of story, song and poetry. Legends from Cornwall, Wales and Scotland to the heart of English myth with King Arthur. Suitable for adults and older children.
Playing time 1hr. 57 mins. 2 discs.
Price: £18.70
Are you...
Visit our...
Visit our online shop For tickets, MP3s, resources and moreFuture Events
- Tall Tale Tuesday
- Horsebridge Arts Centre…03/11/2008
- Harlech Storytelling…
- Theatr Harlech21/11/2008
- GRANDAD TOLD ME THESE…
- East Farndon Village…22/11/2008