Well, it's a full moon again and time for another moonlit blether coming to you from the Orkney Islands. This month, Tom and Rhonda Muir talk about:
- the difficulties of childhood dyslexia (before there was a name for it)
- beloved childhood storybooks that helped Tom overcome traumatic school years
- how Tom stumbled into storytelling and overcame fear (terror, really) of public speaking
- how the Orkney Storytelling Festival first began
- warm reminiscenses involving some of the amazing storytellers and other people that Tom met through international storytelling opportuities (Lawrence Tulloch from Shetland, Bob Pegg, Donald Smith, David Campbell, Hjörleifur Helgi Stefánsson, Joseph Naytowhow, Stanley Robertson, Duncan Williamson and many more beloved friends)
- advice for newer storytellers
- and Tom tells a local Orkney story that took place in a mound site he once dug as an archaeologist!
Drop by on the NEXT full moon, when we'll be having a blether with award-winning Scottish bothy ballad singer, Scott Gardiner.
Podcast theme music courtesy of Fionn McArthur.
"Ower wi' the moon" artwork created by Jenny Steer.
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