Dragonfly Tales

Hello and welcome to Dragonfly Tales a story podcast with Emily and Leo.

As it is Spring time, we would really like to have some new guest tellers join us. And it could be you!! Listen to our top tips and give it a go. We would love to hear your telling!

Our story is from the island of Cuba. Cuban folktales are full of different flavours - just like Cuban food. There are lots of different cultures mixing together in Cuba - Spanish, African and Caribbean. And this episode is a lovely bed time listen.

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Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

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Art by Light Creative

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Hello and welcome to Dragonfly Tales a story podcast with Emily and Leo.

Time is crazzzzzy! Here in England, we just lost an hour. Poof! Gone.

And our producer (Daddy Andy) has been away travelling and he's no idea what time it is!

This episode we welcome another winner of the Otterpool Park Storywriting competition. Evie is 12 and she is from New Romsey in Kent in the UK. She brought us a very different Elizabeth - wild and freee! If only for a short time. We absolutely love her story and her telling. Well done, Evie! You can find out more about Westenhanger Castle and the new town project near Folkestone HERE.

Our story is from the lands the Ice and Snow!

Yes, we are back in the Halls of Asgard to meet the most amazing guy! He's brilliant, he's charming, all the gods love him.

Surely nothing can go wrong.

Right?

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Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

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Art by Light Creative

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Hello and welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast with Emily and Leo.

We are so grateful to you folks for hanging on in there while we got ourselves better. It's been icy cold here in London, but things are looking greener and we could be heading off on holiday soon!

This episode we welcome another winner of the Otterpool Park Storywriting competition. Jasmine is 12 and she is from Cambridgeshire. We absolutely love her story and her telling. Well done, Jasmine! You can find out more about Westenhanger Castle and the new town project near Folkestone HERE.

Our story is a very old Mayan story about a dwarf king.

The Mayans were an ancient civilisation from what’s now Mexico and Central America. They lived in huge cities, had great stone pyramids and believed in lots of different gods. 

They also came up with their own calendars – they were really good at maths and astronomy. And there are people in Central America today who live like the ancient Mayans and eat the same sort of food - maize.

You can discover more about Mayan Civilisation HERE.

AND, it's always good to embrace our differences with love. If you would like to know more about the Little People community, you can do so HERE

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Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

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Hello and welcome to Dragonfly Tales a story podcast with Emily and Leo.

And we have a very special treat for our listeners this episode. Emily was fortunate enough to be asked to judge a story-writing competition based around the mysterious Westenhanger Castle, believed to be owned by Henry VIII.

There’s a possibly a new garden town being built nearby called Otterpool Park and they ran the storywriting competition.

The entrants were between the ages of 7 and 14 years old and the winners were given prizes, including doing a story workshop with Emily!

From over 40 entries, the judges chose 3 winners. We will be featuring all three stories on the podcast. And we have one of the winners for this episode. Her name is Clementine and she is 10 years old. 

Our story is a chain tale from the Punjab. There are lots and lots of parts to this story. Can you remember them all and the order they come in?

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Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

Guitar & Production by Andy Grazebrook

Art by Light Creative

Sound effects by Uppbeat

Tabla Music by Sing with Aqeel

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Hello and welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast with Emily and Leo.

Spring is coming! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it mat feel cold and windy, but underneath the ground the seeds are stirring for Imbolc - the coming of Spring. 

We love to celebrate St Brigit's day by feeding the birds, lighting candles to scare away the dark, baking tasty treats and getting the house and garden in order 'spring cleaning'.

Our story celebrates the battle between winter and spring - who do you think will win?

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Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

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Art by Light Creative

Sound effects by Uppbeat

Music The Faerie Garden by Chris Collins

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Hello and welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast with Emily and Leo.

Happy New Year!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday with family and friends. 

We're bringing in the New Year with stories about winter, cozying down and dreaming of springtime.

We are so delighted to welcome our first guest teller of the New Year - Lucy Lill

Lucy is a performer from London and she works in museums, theatres, schools and festivals - anywhere people will let her tell stories!

You can often find her working with Alys Torrance as part of Story Jam, plotting events and shows. She practises some of her stories on her four year old, and he tells her exactly what he thinks! You can find out more about Lucy HERE.

Our story is an old one from Finland. The sun sleeps for a long time, waiting to rise. When it does, it must be beautiful in Lapland, where this wintry tale comes from.

Can you imagine a world where the sun doesnt rise - for months! 

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Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

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Hello and welcome to season 4 of Dragonfly Tales Podcast. Each episode we will tell you a story from around the world and share some fun and silly things with you.

IT’s CHRISTMAS!!!!!

We'd like to wish all our listeners a very HAPPY HOLIDAYS! We hope you enjoy our special festive episode.

Our first story is by Kim Normanton. She’s the host of one of our favourite podcasts Super Great Kids’ Stories!

If you haven’t checked out this amazing podcast you really should!

Super Great Kids’ Stories is an award-winning podcast of traditional tales from around the world retold by the best storytellers. Recommended for ages 5 to 105. Listen in and you’ll meet Brazilian ogres, African trickster spiders, Greek heroes, and Russian witches.

And for our Xmas special, host Kim has a wintry tale for us from Siberia.

Our story is a lovely tale about a snowy mountain and also some fairy folk. 

Will Hans and Trudy make it up to the great Snow Bear safely? You'll have to listen and find out. You can read the original story by Ruth Ainsworth in her brilliant book The Pirate Ship and other stories.

The rhyme we say is from a famous poem called The Fairies by William Allingham.

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Hello and welcome to season 4 of Dragonfly Tales Podcast. Each episode we will tell you a story from around the world and share some fun and silly things with you.

A big HELLO! to all our new listeners and subscribers - welcome to the podcast family! Be sure to share your drawings and pictures in our Facebook Group.

 Our first story is from our Guest Teller Grethe Mangala Jenson. It's the classic tale Jack and the Beanstalk, with a Grethe twist!

Grethe, from Sandal Sticks Theatre, is a very gifted Storyteller and puppeteer of Sri Lankan and Danish heritage.

 She loves sharing stories with people of all ages because ‘they can make you feel good (sometimes sad), teach you lessons , inspire confidence as well as creativity and an appreciation of language in all its forms’.

If you want to find out more about Grethe, you can do so HERE.

Our story is a tale from the Mapuche people of Chile, a country in South America. There are many ancient stone masks that come from the Mapuche people, but unfortunately not much is known about them.

That is why their folk tales are so precious! If you'd like to learn more about the Mapuche you can do this HERE.

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Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

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Art by Light Creative

Sound effects by Uppbeat

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Hello and welcome to season 4 of Dragonfly Tales Podcast. Each episode we will tell you a story from around the world and share some fun and silly things with you.

We’d like to thank our listeners for their patience – we’re always sorry when we have to postpone an episode but we all get sick sometimes.

Coming up this season on Dragonfly Tales:

- we will be joined by some amazing guest tellers 

- We’ll have a Christmas competition for our listeners

 - we also have a new Instagram account @dragonflytalespod where we will be showing your art work, clips and videos and hints to coming stories.

 Our story comes from a collection of stories from the Southern states of America. 

And features a very tricky character who loves getting up to mischief.

Brer Rabbit.

These stories were carried over the ocean by African slaves, and although we might now feel a bit uncomfortable with the voice of Uncle Remus (stories told through a white man's lens) these animal stories are fantastic and need to be celebrated in their own right!

If you want to talk more about this important idea, then please please share your thoughts with us. [email protected]

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Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

Guitar & Production by Andy Grazebrook

Art by Light Creative

Sound effects by Uppbeat

Banjo Music Michael Staun

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Welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages.

It’s our Halloween Special!!!!!! Wooooooo! And we have some treats in store for you – or are they tricks?

As with our previous Halloween shows, Leo is going to tell a story that’s not too scary. And I’ll tell one that is a bit more scary

We also thought we would tickle your funny bone with some spooky Halloween jokes from our listeners! Huge thanks to Marcus Zoe, George, Sharon, Mila, Tom, Will and Jakey!!

Leo's story is a ghost story from England. You can find this story and lots more like it in this excellent book by Margaret Read MacDonald 'When the Lights Go Out!'

Emily's story is from Norway. And many people believe the story is true. There is a lake in Norway called Whale lake 

Because in this lake have been discovered the huge bones of what was once a mighty whale that terrorized the fjords and seas around Norway and greenland 

Hundreds of years ago, sailors would hunt wales for their blubber. They would melt the blubber down into oil that was then used for street lights, cosmetics and explosives. Whale hunting was incredibly dangerous and there are lots of songs about about it – as sailors would spend very long times at sea, making up stories, singing songs and crafting. You can find out more about it HERE.

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Theme Music by Leo Grazebrook on GarageBand

Storytelling and songs by Emily Hanna-Grazebrook 

Guitar & Production by Andy Grazebrook

Art by Light Creative

Sound effects by Uppbeat

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