Storytelling with Michael Harvey

Mabinogi Monday #8 with Katy Cawkwell

November 18, 2019 Michael Harvey/Katy Cawkwell Season 1 Episode 8
Storytelling with Michael Harvey
Mabinogi Monday #8 with Katy Cawkwell
Show Notes

A conversation with Exeter based storyteller Katy Cawkwell who delved into the Mabinogi for her Festival at the Edge Commission in 2003 with her story of Rhiannon. You can order the CD of Rhiannon, as well as other stories on the shop page on her site. We talked in Bristol just before she had to go and prepare for the show Women Who Gave No F**ks with a stellar line-up of women storytellers at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. The video below is from a storytelling tour Katy did with the production compant Adverse Camber.

Our conversation which ranged far and wide and covered the following…

  • The influence of Eric Maddern and Hugh Lupton’s courses at  Tŷ Newydd 
  • The illustrations of Margaret Jones
  • Understanding Annwfn - the Welsh Otherworld
  • W J Gruffydd’s study of Rhiannon
  • The challenges of finding the narrative line of Mabinogi stories
  • The inspiration of the Welsh landscape, particularly Carn Ingli in Pembrokeshire.