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Sarah recaps a Valentine storytelling evening with musicians Rossi and Imogen, and a Rose Cabaret in Glastonbury where she compared alongside Jenny Bliss, Tom Widdicombe, and storyteller Beth Webb.

At the cabaret, she performed the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet — a meditation on young love and naming that opens into a wider reflection on what we pass down to future generations: not just love, but everything that is not love.

Elsewhere: a love letter workshop for the Mental Health Network, writing to past and future selves, tracing your hand and celebrating it — and a great-aunt’s funeral at 100, with the beautiful image of women embroidering encouraging messages inside soldiers’ uniforms.

The episode closes in the fossil room at the Clark Shoe Museum, where storytelling to children sparked wonder at the revelation that whales and dolphins were once land mammals — their fins still bearing the five-knuckled memory of hands.

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