This Episode is GUARANTEED to contain Storytelling. 

We can still focus can't we? The world is too fast paced, but if you're patient you'll find gold. Gold, Jerry! Gold! 

Take the time to sit back and listen to a story and a great interview with Welsh storyteller Daniel Morden. Daniel shares his telling of Alcestis accompanied by the Devil's Violin, and we slow down talk about what story has to tell us, how it fits into the modern world. It's a long chat, but it's a great one. Listen to a man who makes his living at being a compelling storyteller. American  listeners will be drawn in by his accent, but it's what he says that will end up captivating. If you're a writer or a story teller - or if you LOVE story, this is one episode you don't want miss.

Next time Daniel visit's the 9th Story - Fonts!

Discussion Topics:

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• Alcestis: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/13270/Alcestis
  
• Scheherazade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade
  
• Herla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herla
  
• Ted Hughes: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/ted-hughes
  
• Alan Moore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore_bibliography
  
• Ovid: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/436057/Ovid
  
• Boogeyman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman
  
• Coyote Trickser: http://www.native-languages.org/southwest-coyote.htm
  
• Cinderella: http://www.lowvilleacademy.org/webpages/MBlow/cinderella.cfm?subpage=868111
  
• Dovie Thomason: http://doviethomason.com/
  
• Joseph Campbell: http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php
  
• Australian Aborigines: http://www.sacred-texts.com/aus/mla/
  
• Ian Rankin: http://www.ianrankin.net/
  
• Bryn Terfel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryn_Terfel
  
• James Bond is Gilgamesh: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/189673/Epic-of-Gilgamesh
  
• Mark Rothko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
  
• Ralph the Wonder Llama: http://youtu.be/SII-jhEd-a0?t=2m51s
  
• Joss Whedon: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/
  

Learn to speak actual English:

1. Potching: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Potching
2. Corker:   http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=corker&defid=397951 
3. Gubbins:  http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gubbins

LINKS

Daniel's work The Devil's Violin Company: http://www.fiddle.org.uk/

Sleeping Beauty and Alcestis: http://www.taithrecords.co.uk/node/52

Daniel's Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Morden/e/B0034NT05G/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1411770344&sr=8-1

Daniel's page on the Writers of Wales Database: http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/129751/desc/morden-daniel/

Daniels Page on Gomer: http://www.gomer.co.uk/index.php/authors/danielmorden.html

Daniel On the BBC - a story about what Truth Wears: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01h3hfh

Daniel talking about The Tree of Leaf and Flame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRlF7lfaVGI

Daniel's Video - Love is like to Salt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AaEosbCO3o

Art by Steven Matiko

Upcoming Guests:
Chris Preksta and Curt Wootton of Pittsburgh Dad: http://www.pghdad.com

Music courtesy of Kevin McLeod
"Melodie Victoria"
"Moonlight Hall"
"Mirage"
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Intro and Outro Music also Courtesy of Kevin McLeod
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For a full list of music used in the Intro and Outro, click here.

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