Episode 19: July 10, 2025 - On this full \"buck\" moon, Tom talks with environmental storyteller, poet and artist, Gordon \"Creeping Toad\" MacLellan.
Tonight we have a blether about these things and more ...
• Why we need to react creatively to the world around us
• Finding the right stories to tell with heart
• Exploring stories of the natural world and its features
• Finding inspiration from the Scottish landscape
• The joy of writing poetry
• Lending a helping hand with our non-human neighbors, the wee hoppy people, via the toad bus
• Gordon shares a story told to him by a nine-year-old boy
• Working with children and imagination
• Who owns the selkie stories, anyway?
• The violence inherent in old tales
• Keeping vigil with the unknown dead
• Tom tells the true story of Betty Corrigal, Hoy
• The story of the hundred-handed giants
• Similarities between the story of Odysseus and an Orkney finfolk tale
• A story-swap between two Scottish storytellers
• Ragna, the AI Viking woman at Orkney Museum ... and what's she got to do with Tom?
• Raven tales through different cultures
• About the London Creativity Conference
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More from Gordon MacLellan:
https://creepingtoad.com/
https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2024/05/witches-snow-and-wonderful-creatures.html
https://giftsfromcrows.bandcamp.com/album/whisper-along-the-wind
https://www.creativityconference.is/gordon-maclellan