{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65a28c429ba8e30016dff20e/66e419bd2b0607eaa4dfffd5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ailsa Dixon ~ Scottish Storytelling Past, Present & Future","description":"<p>On this full moon night we had a visit from a young Scottish-Dutch storytelling friend, who is also a great grandneice of Orkney's beloved poet, George Mackay Brown. Please enjoy our blether with stories.</p><p>In this episode you'll hear about:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Ailsa's experience of learning about her heritage from Tom</li><li>Orkney stories and their histories</li><li>letting folk stories continue to grow in our own time</li><li>encouraging new storytellers</li><li>the delights of spontaneity in storytelling</li><li>a wee tale from Aberdeenshire -<em> Fittie's Portion</em></li><li>\"young\" storytellers, and how not to be defined by age or other labels</li><li>Ailsa's School of Storycraft for kids</li><li>telling stories about things you care about; defeating apathy and reconnecting emotionally</li><li>local history storytelling</li><li>stories about kindness; \"heart stories\"</li><li>Ailsa tells her heart story,<em> Kate Crackernuts</em>, which is not - as is commonly misunderstood - an English tale, but was collected in the Orkney Islands</li><li>finding earlier versions of folktales</li><li>Gaelic waulking songs</li><li>... and a bonus story, which Ailsa first heard from her granddad, Fraser Dixon: <em>The Story of Tam Bichan</em> - from Dingieshowe, Orkney</li><li>contact Ailsa Dixon here: https://tracscotland.org/storytellers/ailsa-dixon/</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Tom Muir and Rhonda Muir"}