The Storyteller’s Podcast

"Sandcastle Dynasty: A Welsh Short Story About the Welsh Short Story" is an excerpt from my new book Abandon All Hope: A Personal Journey Trough the History of Welsh Literature, and also marks the first in a series of collaborations with Terrier Productions and WARP brining a new selection of short stories to BRG.

In this new podcast series, novelist and critic Gary Raymond talks to some of his favourite writers about their relationship with the art of storytelling. In episode 3, award-winning novelist and poet Niall Griffiths talks about the primordial power of story structure and the writers he holds to be the greatest story tellers of them all.

In this new podcast series, novelist and critic Gary Raymond talks to some of his favourite writers about their relationship with the art of storytelling. In episode 2, best selling novelist Sarah Waters talks about the series that had a great influence on her as a child, and her processes in building the story of a novel, from character to era.

Gary Raymond talks to playwright, screenwriter, and, now, memoirist, Abi Morgan about her relationship to the craft of storytelling. Abi MorganThis Is Not a Pity MemoirPeak PracticeJeremy BrockStephen JeffriesPriest by Jimmy McGovern

I’m Gary Raymond, novelist, broadcaster, critic, editor, and common-garden-variety literary obsessive, and I am here to tell you about The Storyteller, a new podcast where I talk to writers such as Sarah Waters, Abi Morgan, Niall Griffiths and many others, about their relationship with the art of storytelling. I want to get into the marrow of the mechanics, as well as the magic, of storytelling, and I’m going to do it by talking to some masters of the craft. And you can listen to it from September in all the usual places you get your podcasts.The Storyteller podcast forms part of the extended universe of my new substack fiction serial, JellyBread, where, after a lifetime of enjoying, studying, obsessing, over the art of storytelling, and writing three novels and a mountain of articles, I’m picking apart everything I’ve learned to tell the story of my hometown in a newsletter novel format. The Storyteller, alongside some short articles where I muse on matters of process, is the place where I’ll be discussing the things that make stories tick – from influences, to theory, to the building blocks – join me over the next few months to find out just what makes the art of storytelling so powerful.You can subscribe to Gary Raymond's JellyBread substack here https://garyraymond.substack.com/p/welcome-to-gary-raymonds-jellybread