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TSR- Plantation Days
TALK STORY RADIO presents three tales of PLANTATION LIFE. NYLA CHING-FUJII shares a tale of youth growing up in Kona on the Big Island. BILL PATEY recalls his childhood days growing up around cane in Waialua, and BARBARA KAWAKAMI ends with the true life-tale of Taga & Kamizo. These are tales of life in a [...]
TSR- High School Tellers
TALK STORY RADIO presents four HIGH SCHOOL STORYTELLERS from Hawaii’s annual high school storytelling competiton 2006. BROCK VASCONCELLOS tells the Chinese fable ‘Tiki Tiki Tembo’ retold by Arlene Mosel, followed by CINDY LONZUS rocking a cliffnotes version of ‘Wicked’ by Gregory McGuire. KOA SOL shares Nona Beamer’s story of ‘Kahuli, The Tree Snail”, and [...]
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TSR- Kid Halloween
TALK STORY RADIO presents a cauldron of KID HALLOWEEN TALES! After a goofy opening (KC & COMPANY) come ‘Halloween Riddles by KATY RYDELL (with more later in the show). BRADAJO (JOE HADLEY) tells his ‘Green Hornet’ recollection in Hawaiian pidgin. LOPAKA KAPANUI shares a true story of the ‘Bathroom Ghosts’, LYN FORD tells the ‘Kitchen [...]
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TSR- Two Different Heroes
TALK STORY RADIO presents TWO DIFFERENT HEROES. Honolulu’s most prominent drama educator DAN KELIN II tells the hilarious Marshall Islander’s tale of ‘The Half-Boy And The Breadfruit’ (with audio gymnastics). Then Vancouver’s IVAN CAYOTE performs with guitarist RICHARD SPENCER to tell the bitter-sweet original tale, ‘My Hero’. JOHN ZORN and the AFRO-CELTIC SOUND SYSTEM contribute [...]
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TSR- Honu
TALK STORY RADIO presents HONU (Sea Turtle) TALES. ‘Honu Rap’ by Honolulu’s Brazilian slam poet Eric ‘CAJU’ Cajueiro opens. Then CATHY SPAGNOLI tells the Korean tale, ‘Two Brothers & The Turtle’. The haunting ‘Honu Tale’ is told live by JEFF GERE with LES ADAM (keyboard), SANDRA LEE AKAKA (percussion), and ALANA CINI (didgeridoo). MAKIA MALO [...]
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TSR- Picture Brides
TALK STORY RADIO presents PICTURE BRIDES: TRUE LIFE TALES. BARBARA KAWAKAMI interviewed the last of the picture brides before their passing. BARBARA’s Story (4:22), KANA’s Tale (3:55) with the drunk husband, TATSUNO OGAWA’s (10:05) harsh life in Pupukea, and USHI of Okinawa (8:14). She told their tales at the Talk Story Festivals in ‘96 & [...]
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TSR- McCarthy Spookies
TALK STORY RADIO presents McCARTHY SPOOKIES: 2 musical tells by the tall thin teller/teacher JAMES McCARTHY, bandleader of Honolulu’s hottest kickin’ punk Irish band the Doolin Rakes. He begins with ‘The Legend of Fiddler’s Rock’ (with the fiddle of Leslie Kline). He ends with a live tell of his own, ‘The Blackbird Express’ (civil rights [...]
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TSR- Hawaii Now
TALK STORY RADIO presents HAWAII NOW, warts and all. 4 short poem/songs open the show by KEALOHA & CHARLES KA’UPU (Native Intelligence), LOPAKA KAPANUI & SHOJI LEDWARD (Pagan Tatooed Savage), BRENDA KWON (Community Aint a Dirty Word), and WILLY K (tales & tunes medley). DARRELL LUM finishes reading live his tribute to Olympic Medalist Tommy [...]
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TSR- Glen Grant Tribute
JEFF GERE presents TALK STORY RADIO and a TRIBUTE to Hawaii’s author/storyteller/ghost lore researcher/radio host/deceased master GLEN GRANT. BRADAJO (JOE HADLEY) shares 3 Glen Grant tales between longer tells by LOPAKA KAPANUI (Morgan’s Corner Tales- he continues Ghost Walks in the footsteps of his mentor), and Maui’s ‘TITA’ KATHY COLLINS, with her pidgin version of [...]
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TSR- Pele: Halema’uma’u
PELE TALES of HALEMA’UMA’U on TALK STORY RADIO. ‘TITA’ KATHY COLLINS begins by telling us in her own pidgin style how Pele came to Hawaii, and then of one of Pele’s brothers, Kanehekili, the Thunder God. Then schoolteacher ELLY TEPPER relates the amazing things that happened to her and her two boys on a [...]
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TSR- Pele: Mother And Father
PELE: MOTHER & FATHER’S TALE on TALK STORY RADIO. Two tales lead us into two interlocked tales about the Volcano Goddess. NYLA CHING-FUJII tells & chants Pele to Hawaii, and kupuna MARIE SOLOMON of Kohala tells a Pele and Kamapua’a (the pig god) tale. Then JEFF GERE shares two incredible family tales shared quietly with [...]
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TSR- They Met Pele
THEY MET PELE on TALK STORY RADIO. Three tales of close encounters with Hawaii’s prehistoric godddess of Volcanos, who still lives and interacts with people on the islands today. NYLA CHING-FUJII tells of a strange event that happened to her on the Big Island. JEFF GERE tells of The Man Who Met Pele. Then ‘TITA’ [...]
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TSR- Fractured Fairytales
FRACTURED FAIRYTALES (four of ‘em) on TALK STORY RADIO. BOBBY NORFOLK tells the Lawrence Dunbar poem, ‘A Cabin Tale’ followed by WILLY CLAFLIN invoking Maynard the Moose to tell ‘Punzle and the Seven Dwarfs’. ANGELA LLOYD strums through her musical telling of ‘Thorn Rose’. BRET FETZER closes with his original fairytale, ‘The Seventeen Princesses’. Wow! [...]
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TSR- Kids About Kids
KID’s STORIES ABOUT KIDS on TALK STORY RADIO. We start with MAKIA MALO recalling ‘The Boys Band’ in Hawaii’s remote Kalaupapa Settlement for people afflicted with Hanson’s Disease (leprosy) where he grew up. Vancouver’s IVAN CAYOTE tells his story ‘Sticks and Stones’ about growing up in the Yukon with Richard Stark’s guitar. DAN KELIN [...]
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TSR- Lion, Mouse, Fox, Crow
AESOP’S FABLES on TALK STORY RADIO on the tongues of five storytellers and in the skins of LION, MOUSE, FOX, CROW, and RABBIT. SANDRA MacLEES tells her version of ‘Fox & Crow’, UNCLE WAYNE WATKINS (the Preschool Rocker) tell/sings his ‘Panther and Mouse’, JIM LEWIS shares the ‘Lion and the Rabbit’, and DIANE FERLATTE tells [...]
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TSR- Witch’s Boney Tongue
WITCH’s BONEY TONGUE is three tales told together on TALK STORY RADIO. A short little funny, ‘Watermelon Bones’, by librarian JANET YAP starts us off, followed by ‘The Necklace Story’ (African) by Northwest Coast bilingual (hiarious) teller JOHNNY MOSES, and finally a bizarre original fairytale by Seattle’s BRET FETZER, ‘The Book of Tongues’. JEFF GERE [...]
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TSR- Spooky Kid Tales of Hawaii
SPOOKY KID TALES of HAWAII as told on TALK STORY RADIO by JEFF GERE (host) and Ghost Tours Of Old Hawaii Guide and supernatural lore author LOPAKA KAPANUI.
LOPAKA begins with FERNANDO, GERE follows with a story a kid told him (Under the Banyan Tree) to the rockin’ accompaniment of LES ADAM (piano) and ALANA CINI [...]
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TSR- Not Afraid of Nothin’
NOT AFRAID O NOTHIN’ - Stories of NOT being afraid on TALK STORY RADIO. JAMES McCARTHY opens with a little English folktale, ‘The Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything’. JEFF GERE (our host) tells his daughter’s tale of over coming fear in ‘Get On The Bus’ with pianist LES ADAM. We finish with LYN [...]
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TSR- Garments For The Moon
On TALK STORY RADIO, two Jewish Californians tell the same tale in two very different ways. The folktale: A GARMENT FOR THE MOON. The first tell is a solo studio recording by ERICA LANN-CLARK (and how many voices there are in this one voice!). The second version, with lots of musical accopaniment and delicious technical [...]
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TSR- Dog Tails
A yelping furry litter of DOG TAILS on TALK STORY RADIO! We begin with NYLA CHING_FUJII’s original ‘traditional’ Japanese tale of ‘Azuki Inu’. Kupuna/ hula master NONA BEAMER recounts the dog ‘Boki’ singing with the church choir to the slack key of her son KEOLA BEAMER. JEFF GERE, our host, adds a ‘Dapper Dan” Dog [...]
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TSR- Tailypo and Hairy Man
TAILYPO AND THE HAIRY MAN on TALK STORY RADIO. Two classic suspenseful American folktales delightfully rendered! UNCLE WAYNE WATKINS, the preschool rock star, begins with his ‘Gimme Back My Bone’. Ohio’s LYN FORD follows with the spooky “Tailypo’. Finally, a long energetic treatment of ‘The Hairy Man’ by KAREN RAE KRAUT (Los Angeles). JEFF GERE [...]
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TSR- Supernatural Hawaii: Then & Now
SUPERNATURAL HAWAII: THEN & NOW, a collection of true supernatural tales on TALK STORY RADIO attesting to the power of the ancient Hawaiian forces in the lives of people in Hawaii today… NOW! LOPAKA KAPANUI shares two tales, ‘Ghost Prayer’ and ‘Ronnie Hightower’ and in-between them RICK CARROLL tells ‘Bishop Museum Events’ and ‘Pueo’. To [...]
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TSR- Wierd Kids
WIERD KID TALES (’about’ them, not ‘for’ them) on TALK STORY RADIO, all performed at the Talk Story Festival in Honolulu, Hawaii’s largest storytelling celebration! Ohio’s LYN FORD shares her original tale of ‘Mary Stella’ (a strange child). VERNYCE DANNELLS shares her song of ‘Ron’, followed by the elegant telling of ‘Lady of the Lake’ [...]
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TSR- Two Musical Devils
TWO MUSICAL DEVILS on TALK STORY RADIO. First, from the double CD (WOW!) produced by the Vancouver Storytelling Society and Canadian Broadcasting Society, YVONNE CHARTRAND & PATRICIA ALLEN (violin) do ‘The Devil’s Fiddle’.
Next JEFF GERE and LES ADAM (piano), ALANA CINI (didgeridoo), and SANDRA LEE AKAKA (percussion) smoke on a hot version of the folktale, [...]
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TSR- Storytelling Class
STORYTELLINC CLASS by JEFF GERE on TALK STORY RADIO. Celebrating 2 years of TSR shows, host JEFF GERE shares several of his stories about storytelling illustrating points about how to do it WELL with passion to carry an audience. He is joined on most numbers in various groupings by Maui musicians LES ADAM (piano), ALANA [...]
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TSR- Undersea Love
TWO AMAZING MUSICAL TALES of UNDERSEA LOVE told on TALK STORY RADIO. ‘The Wonderful Tune’, an Irish tale told by KATY RYDELL (Maine) with pianist LES ADAM at Casanova’s Bar (Makawao, Maui. ‘95). ‘Amina And The King of the Moldau River’ told by ERICA LANN-CLARK (Santa Cruz Calif) with LES ADAM improvising on piano at [...]
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TSR- Riddles
RIDDLE TALES are told on TALK STORY RADIO, by a diverse collection of West Coast tellers. CATHY SPAGNOLI (Seattle and India resident) tells ‘Student Trick’ and ‘Korean Proverbs and Riddles’. RUTH HALPERN (Oakland, Calif.) tells ‘Conversations in Signs’. She told at the ’99 Talk Story Festival. ‘The King And The Storyteller’ and [...]
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TSR- Makia Malo For Kids
MAKIA MALO tells his humorous personal childhood tales on TALK STORY RADIO. Makia was sent at the age of 13 to Kalaupapa, Hawaii’s Hanson’s Disease (leprosy) settlement. He left 30 years later, earned a BA in Hawaiian Studies, and is a professional storyteller. His tales: Your Side, My Side, The Rooster, and The Picnic with [...]
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TSR- Hawaii Lei And Flowers
From Hawaii, stories celebrating FLOWERS on TALK STORY RADIO. HINA KAHANU tells ‘Kauna’oa and Puhehue’ and ‘Kalaupapa’s Name Story’. MARIE SOLOMON tells ‘Ohana’ and ‘Naupaka’. NONA BEAMER tells ‘Pua Polu’ to the guitar of her son KEOLA BEAMER (it’s also a popular picture book which includes this recording). MUSIC is supplied by Ozzy Kotani, Hapa, [...]
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TSR- Jack And Evil Mountain Spirit
JEFF GERE burns up the traditional European tale of JACK AND THE EVIL MOUNTAIN SPIRIT on TALK STORY RADIO, featuring the tellers and tales of Hawaii and the Pacific Rim.This is no sleepy folktale tell folks- he’s accompanied by 3 smokin’ improvisational wizards: LES ADAM (piano), ALANA CINI (didgeridoo) and SANDRA LEE AKAKA (percussion). Their [...]
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TSR- Changing Women
TWO CHANGING WOMEN spooky tales on TALK STORY RADIO.
LOPAKA KAPANUI tells a story heard on Renton Road about ‘Aswang’ (Fillippina Vampires). JEFF GERE tells a live audience his sensual version of the BOO HAG (wife changing into a cat) with piano improvisation wizard LES ADAM. JEFF GERE hosts TALK STORY RADIO, a storytelling program airing [...]
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TSR- Two Long Storytelling Tells
TWO LONG tales (and a shorty) about STORYTELLING on TALK STORY RADIO (tellers and tales of Hawaii and the Pacific). JEFF GERE hosts and opens with ‘How I Became a Professional Storyteller’. NYLA CHING-FUJII tells her original ‘traditional’ Hawaiian tale of ‘Kaleonahenahe’, and KATHRYN FAIRLEE tells ‘The Baal Shem Tov and the Storyteller’ with its [...]
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TSR- Different Kinds of Love
Three moving tales of DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE on TALK STORY RADIO. MAKIA MALO from Kalaupapa (Hawaii’s Hanson Disease/Leprosy Settlement) tells of learning to say ‘I Love You’. BRUCE SMITH tells ‘The Most Love I Have Ever Felt’ about participating in a Gay Day Parade. IVAN CAYOTE shares a visit with his nephew who ‘Likes [...]
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TSR- Old Mililani Graveyard
JEFF GERE celebrates Halloween (his birthday) with this chilling true spooky tale of the OLD MILILANI GRAVEYARD told to him by a high school boy. It was recorded before a live(ly) audience and is shared here on TALK STORY RADIO. Hold ON, enjoy (with a friend) and subscribe!
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TSR- Gawain and Ragnell
Two entwined tellings of SIR GAWAIN & DAME RAGNELL on TALK STORY RADIO. First, SANDRA MacLEES (from Volcano, Hawaii) tells to a live audience with improvisation wizard LES ADAM on piano. JEFF GERE did his studio version (at Mana’o Radio on Maui) to the accompaniment of LES ADAM (piano), ALANA CINI (didgeridoo) and SANDRA LEE [...]
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TSR- Trees
Three stories of TREES on TALK STORY FESTIVAL. HINA KAHANU shares ‘A Child of the Trees’. MILBRE BURCH elequently tells Jane Yolen’s tale, ‘The Tree’s Wife’. JEFF GERE finishes with his personal tale of, ‘The Guardian Of The Trees’. JEFF GERE hosts this weekly celebration of the tales and tellers of Hawaii, the Pacific Rim, [...]
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TSR- The Sky Is Falling
THE SKY IS FALLING in four tales on TALK STORY RADIO. JACK BOYLE shares the Jataka Tale of “Foolish Rabbit”. RANDEL McGEE tells the Hans Christian Andersen’s “It’s Perfectly True”… and becomes Andersen to do it! LYN FORD shares the Brer Rabbit tale, “Aint Got Time To Tarry”. Finally, a personal story by poet BRENDA [...]
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TSR- Beautiful Hawaii
BEAUTIFUL HAWAII, celebrated in story, verse and music on TALK STORY RADIO. Famous Kupuna NONA BEAMER shares ‘The Beauty of Mauna Kea’ with son KEOLA’s guitar. HINA KAHANU tells of the ‘Abalone Ritual’. Slam poet KEALOHA shares ‘I Live Aloha’ to DARIN LEONG’s guitar, and JEFF GERE tells ‘My 1st Morning On The North [...]
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TSR- Momotaro
MOMOTARO, the traditional Japanese tale told in a very untraditional way by Maui’s favorite ‘TITA’ KATHY COLLINS on TALK STORY RADIO. Her long pidgin-english version is preceeded by KAREN YAMAMOTO- HACKLER telling the Japanese folktale, ‘Two Foolish Cats’. JEFF GERE host this program featuring Hawaii’s tellers and tales. Subsribe and enjoy!
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TSR- Mahukona Heiau
Two tales about the Big Island NAVIGATION HEIAU (Hawaiian Temple Site) just above Mahukona, an area passed as you driving toward Hawi, shared on TALK STORY RADIO. MARIE SOLOMON begins, followed by a tale of visiting Marie and going to the Heiau with here husband Sonny, told by JEFF GERE with pianist LES ADAM. Then [...]
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TSR- Storytelling Mix
A MIX of STORYTELLINGS by storytellers on TALK STORY RADIO.
JEFF GERE welcomes, EMIL WOLFGRAMM gives a traditional Tongan Opening, MARIE SOLOMON tells of Grandpa’s stories, KAREN YAMAMOTO-HACKLER comments on Japan’s storytelling, ANGELA LLOYD recites a Carl Sandburg poem, PUANANI BURGESS tells a personal teaching tale, DAWN WASSON tells of her story mentor in Lai’e, JOEL [...]
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TSR- MAUI by Jensen
LUCIA JENSEN from Hawaii’s Big Island tells the saga of the mysterious polynesian demigod MAUI on TALK STORY RADIO. This authoritative talk (at the ‘98 Talk Story Festival) comes from her research in the Hawaiian creation chant, the Kumulipo. You can’t get closer to The Source, folks! JEFF GERE hosts TALK STORY RADIO (www.talkstoryradio.com). SUBSCRIBE, [...]
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TSR- Snake
Four SSNNAAKKEE Tales by three tellers: LYN FORD (from Ohio, told at Talk Story Festival 05) shares a hilarious creation joke/myth. JIM LEWIS (Talk Story Festival ‘95 guest) shares 2 tall tales from the Sierra Mountains. The Big Island’s pro teller SANDRA MacLEES tells between Jim’s tales. JEFF GERE hosts TALK STORY RADIO, a weekly [...]
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TSR- Ready For Bed
READY FOR BED in songs & tales on TALK STORY RADIO. JOHNNY MOSES tells the BEAR & ANT (Northwest traditional tale) to explain why days are so long (and short). Next, the Big Island’s JACK BOYLE reads his poem “Marina Of The Wash-Me Sea” (and later, “Johnny Jump-Up” & “The Yawn”). MAKIA MALO (Kalaupapa, Molokai) [...]
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TSR- Kids Fear New Pig Snips
Four FEARSOME KID Tales called NEW PIG SNIPS on TALK STORY RADIO. Huh? After fifth grader John Sahne’s family scarey, ETHNOHTEC (awesome duet from San Francisco) tell ‘The New Ghost’ (NEW). BRET FETZER shares one of his odd original fairytales, ‘The Romantic Pig’ (PIG), and MARGARET READ MacDONALD shares the eerie folktale of ‘Snip Snip’ [...]
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TSR- Death International
INTERNATIONAL TALES of DEATH on TALK STORY RADIO. ANGELA LLOYD recites the Carl Sandburg poem, ‘The Junk Man’. BRENDA WONG-AOKI (with musical score by MARK IZU) tells ‘Monkey Defeats Death”. Slam poet LUMENZ 1 scores & raps his ‘Mortuary Rhyme’ followed by a gorgeous few lines by TOM WAITS. JOEL BEN IZZY tells of [...]
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TSR- Peace Tales by MacDonald
FIVE PEACE TALES collected and written by MARGARET READ MacDONALD (www.margaretreadmacdonald.com) in her book PEACE TALES. They are told here by Ms. MacDONALD herself and the Big Island’s JACK BOYLE at the Talk Story Festival in 2003. TALK STORY RADIO features the Tales and Tellers of Hawaii (and our friends). Hosted by JEFF GERE, it’s [...]
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TSR- Sweet Earth
Gorgeous SWEET EARTH Tales shared by five storytellers for the TALK STORY RADIO show (www.talkstoryradio.com). BARBARA STEVENS-NEWCOMB shares a Central American tale of ‘The Woman Who Outshone the Sun’. DAVID NOVAK tells a brief parable,’Piecing The Earth Together’. RAFE MARTIN shares a trilogy of short true experiences of grace, ‘So It’s You’. Then kupunas [...]
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Two Miraculous Fish
TWO MIRACULOUS FISH tales are told on TALK STORY RADIO. BRET FETZER (Seattle, Washington) tells his macabre, fascinating original fairy tale, ‘The Elegant Fish’ at the Talk Story Festival 2001. ALTON CHUNG (Portland, Oregon) follows with the Japanese folk tale of ‘Koji The Priest’ (who painted fish) from his CD,”Obake: The Strange Tales of Lafcadio [...]
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Love is Sacrifice
Love is not all hearts and flowers but often involves sacrifice. This episode of TALK STORY RADIO features three tales of love’s sacrifice. “I’m Hungry” is a Marshall Islanders tale told by DAN KELIN. WILL HORNYAK tells the “Yakama Salmon & Rattlesnake” tale, and ALTON CHUNG tells the moving Korean story of the ‘Pheasant’s Bell’ [...]
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