Come gather 'round the fire, and lose yourself in tales of another world...
Stories from the Hearth is an immersive storytelling experience, delivering original soundscape-backed short-stories, written, performed and produced by Calum Bannerman, as well as educational episodes exploring the history of storytelling. Each fiction episode will feature a brand-new tale, be it sci-fi, romance, fantasy, historical fiction or horror, with a new story released on the last Sunday of every month. Historical episodes, under the The Wandering Bard series, will give an informed insight into the history of storytelling and the storytellers behind it, with a new episode released on the second Sunday of every month.
Episode #1 was launched on Sunday 10th January 2021 (10.01.21)
The aim of Stories from the Hearth is to rekindle its listeners' love for the ancient art of storytelling (and story-listening), and to bring some small escapism to the frantic energies of the modern world.
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Original Artwork by Anna Ferrara
Anna's Instagram: @giallosardina
Anna's Portfolio: https://annaferrara.carbonmade.com/
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Today, life in our world is instant, immediate, often oppressive and anxiety-inducing. It moves at a faster pace than any one of us could hope to keep up with, though still we try, with daily doses of TikTok, tenacious tweeting, endless video chats, snapchats, and Instagram stories. Yet once upon a time, the world moved at a slower pace. This was a time when wandering storytellers - called bards - travelled from village to village, town to town, bringing news, and songs, and fantastical tales wherever they went. And everywhere they went, people came together; they gathered round a fire, and listened to the bard’s story, escaping through those tales into other worlds, full of adventure, mystery, love, and heartbreak; worlds in which their worries and anxieties could be left far behind. Stories from the Hearth is a podcast for those sorts of people, for people longing to escape the unremitting speed of the everyday, to slow things down, and to indulge in that most simple, primal, and wholesome of pastimes: listening along with others, to the telling of a good story. So come, gather 'round the fire, and lose yourself in tales of another world... Story episodes of Stories from the Hearth, which feature original fiction and immersive soundscapes, are released on the last Sunday of every month. Educational episodes, entitled The Wandering Bard, which explore the history of storytelling and the people behind it, are released on the second Sunday of every month. The show’s artwork is by Anna Ferrara, everything else is the work of Calum Bannerman.