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Award-winning, international storyteller and director Michael Harvey is in conversation with Indian-born, UAE resident, multi-disciplinary artist Shereen Saif. Shereen and Michael have been collaborating over lockdown on a Shereen's new project 'A Woman's Mind' based on the story of Ahalya from the Ramayana. In September they will work together in Dubai to put the final touches to the production and including live Indian music. A Woman's Mind is sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation

Sharon Blackie is a writer and teacher who is on a mission to reconnect us to our mythical past and the landscape around us with academic rigour, openness, imagination and humour. This  conversation ranges wide and includes an exploration of the Peredur/Perceval story from the Welsh and French Arthurian cannon, a good look at the Cailleach - the wild, wise and scary old woman of Irish mythology, as well as how we can use these stories and our landscapes to reconnect to each other, our creativity and our time on the planet. Learn more about Sharon's writing, teaching and podcasts here https://sharonblackie.net/

Trafodaeth gyda'r storïwr a'r cerddor Guto Dafis. Siaradon ni am y ffordd mae Guto wedi trin chwedl Manawydan o Drydedd Gainc y Mabinogi a sut mae'n  defnyddio y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg ochr yn ochr wrth adrodd, wedi ysbrydoli gan ei fagwraeth dwyieithog.

Cyfweliad ffraeth a threiddgar gyda'r storïwraig Tamar Eluned Williams www.tamarelunedwilliams.com   Mae hi'n sôn am ei thaith o'r theatr i'r chwedl a dod nôl i Gymru a'r deunydd oedd wedi bod yn rhan ohoni eirioed - y Mabinogi. Siaradon ni am rym y chwedlau arnon ni fel rhai sydd yn eu hadrodd a'r effaith ar y gynulleiddfa; natur 'carpiog' naratif y Mabinogi fel adlewyrchiad teg a deinamic y byd sydd ohoni; grym cymdeithasol chwedleua fel arf diwylliannol sydd yn gallu gwneud ei hunan yn anweladwy ac wedyn camu ar lwyfan fawr a llawer mwy.

Mae Dafydd wedi bod yn gyfarwydd gyda'r Mabinogi ers yn blentyn. Mae wedi crwydro'r dirwedd a dod i nabod y straeon a'u gweld nhw'n dod yn fyw wrth droedio'r tir a dod i'w nabod nhw 'trwy sodlau eu traed'.  Mae'n gweld y Mabinogi fel rhan o'n hunaniaeth fel Cymry a'r cymeriadau fel drych i ni'n hunain a'r ffordd rydym yn ymddwyn yn y byd. Wrth ymweld â'r llefydd mae'r stori yn sôn amdanynt mae bron yn amhosib teimlo mai 'yma ddigwyddodd hi'. Wrth adrodd, rhwng y storïwraig/wr a'r dirwedd a phwy bynnag sydd yn clustfeinio. Wrth dyfu gyda'r Mabinogi ffeindiodd bod cymeriadau gwahanol y straeon yn atseinio gyda'i fywyd ei hunan mewn ffyrdd gwahanol nes cyrraedd y rhyfelwr Zen Manawydan sydd yn dadwneud hud a lledrith wrth beidio â gweithredu. Y  mae Dafydd yn edmygydd o fersiwn Guto Dafis o hanes Manawydan.  Y mae cyfweliad gyda Guto nes ymlaen yn y gyfres. I gloi mae Dafydd yn dweud mai cwestiynau yw'r Mabinogi. Pwy oeddem ni, pwy ydyn ni a phwy ydyn ni am fod fel Cymry. Y mae Dafydd yn gyfarwyddwr Menter y Felin Uchaf ym Mhen Llŷn

A story from Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love. This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men. In this concluding story we return to the beginning to find out what happens at the end of Duncan Williamson's story 'The Thorn in the Kings Foot'.

A story from Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love. This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men. This story is from the Middle East and inspired by the telling of Laura Simms.

A story from Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love. This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men. This story was adapted from a story in Michael Meade's collection 'Men and the Water of Life'

The Introduction to Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love. This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men. This introductory section features a story adapted from Duncan Williamson's 'The Thorn in the King's Foot'

The seven survivors return to Wales. While they have been away another king has come and seized the throne. The survivors drift into a dreamworld where time stands still. The spell is broken, they return to reality and tell the story.