The Apple Seed

What would you do if you were given a wish or three? Today’s episode is all about making wishes and the consequences that come with them. We’ve got some great stories to share with you from tellers Willy Claflin, Donald Davis, Heather Forest, Lyn Ford, and the Utah Story Telling Guild.

On today's BITE, bring back memories of your first bike with "Bike Story" by the great storyteller and songwriter Michael Reno Harrell. Jenny and Kat hoin Sam to listen to the story and to share stories of their own.

On today's BITE, bring back memories of your first bike with "Bike Story" by the great storyteller and songwriter Michael Reno Harrell. Jenny and Kat hoin Sam to listen to the story and to share stories of their own.

On today's BITE, a story about family, music, and memory by Ted Fink. The story is "The Sax Man," and we'll discuss it with our guest, composer, actor, and musician Daniel Fifield.

On today's BITE, a story about family, music, and memory by Ted Fink. The story is "The Sax Man," and we'll discuss it with our guest, composer, actor, and musician Daniel Fifield.

There are ancient Greek stories in everything from the movies we see, to the lessons we learn in elementary school, to the constellations in the heavens. In this hour, enjoy ancient Greek stories, and stories inspired by them. The hour begins with a Radio Family Journal entry that has Sam watching "Clash of the Titans" on VHS at his Greek grandfather's house. From there, it's on to references to Archimedes of Syracuse in a story called "Braswell and Archimedes of Syracuse" by Andy Offutt Irwin, references to The Odyssey in Kevin Kling's "Softball," and even a Jack tale by Ed Stivender, with its roots in fables by Aesop. All this, and a conversation with the cast of a production of Sophocles' Antigone too!

There are ancient Greek stories in everything from the movies we see, to the lessons we learn in elementary school, to the constellations in the heavens. In this hour, enjoy ancient Greek stories, and stories inspired by them. The hour begins with a Radio Family Journal entry that has Sam watching "Clash of the Titans" on VHS at his Greek grandfather's house. From there, it's on to references to Archimedes of Syracuse in a story called "Braswell and Archimedes of Syracuse" by Andy Offutt Irwin, references to The Odyssey in Kevin Kling's "Softball," and even a Jack tale by Ed Stivender, with its roots in fables by Aesop. All this, and a conversation with the cast of a production of Sophocles' Antigone too!

Whether it’s a book you read being made into a movie, or a play you saw set in a different era, many of the stories we watch and hear today are retellings. But this creative pilfering of tales-gone-by isn’t a new thing: the human race has been remixing stories since the oral tradition began. Here at the Apple Seed, we’ve got a huge collection of traditional tales retold with a setting-swapping, gender-bending, or moral-changing twist. We’ll start off hearing from Sam about a family story that got enhanced in the telling, even over a few minutes. Then, we’ll be listening to a small collection of  altered traditional tales, from Ed Stivender, Ingrid Nixon, and Maynard Moose (the storytelling companion of Willy Claflin). Finally, the Apple Seed team tried an experiement: passing along a story (the Norwegian folktale "The Boy and the North Wind"), telephone-style, to show how tales can change with each retelling.

This is an episode about nothing in particular, which is another way of saying it is about everything. You’ll hear many an accent among the tellers we feature today. We hope hearing one of these warm tellers makes you feel at home. We’ll visit a small townin east Texas with Michael Reno Harrell, a church in Virginia with Josh Goforth, the kingdom of a bigoted king with Pam Faro, and the village of Chelm with Joel Ben Izzy.

This is an episode about nothing in particular, which is another way of saying it is about everything. You’ll hear many an accent among the tellers we feature today. We hope hearing one of these warm tellers makes you feel at home. We’ll visit a small townin east Texas with Michael Reno Harrell, a church in Virginia with Josh Goforth, the kingdom of a bigoted king with Pam Faro, and the village of Chelm with Joel Ben Izzy.