Storytelling
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Birthday Special #24
We have an anniversary! Podcast hosts Mikael Öberg and Torgrim Mellum Stene are in a festive mood and look back at one year of "In the Borderlands". We speak about the podcast's humble origins, how we met and what it means to be a performance storyteller.
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Interviews, Kersti Ståbi, Mythology, Norse, Performance, Storytelling, Tale singing
Kersti Ståbi: Vǫluspá – performing poems from the Poetic Edda #22
Vǫluspá - The Prophecy of the Seeress from the Poetic Edda is one of the most well known texts from Norse mythology. But how could this oral poem have been performed?
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Lunisolar Mind, Shamanism, Storytelling
Lunisolar Mind VI – Slaughter Moon #21
Dark October is upon us, and the ominous Slaughter Moon takes us for a spin through tales of dismemberment, inklings of werewolves and musings about the nature of light.
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Ben Haggarty, Graphic Novels, Interviews, Mythology, Storytelling, Writing
Ben Haggarty: MeZoLith – Stone Age Dreams and Nightmares #12
Ben Haggarty is one of the world's leading contemporary storytellers, who creates and performs work inspired by international fairy tale, myth and epic. His deep research into ancient stories and cultures also led to the graphic novel series MeZolith with artist Adam Brockbank. Starting from this stone age horror project, we explore all sorts of questions surrounding research and telling (and re-telling) of traditional narrative.
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Christianity, Interviews, Jo Blake, Mysticism, Mythology, Performance, Religion, Specials, Storytelling
Easter Special: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene with Jo Blake #10
We are happy to welcome back Jo Blake from episode #3 to talk about her upcoming project The Witness, based on the Gospel of Mary – a 5th century text that casts the teachings of Christ in a different light. Join us for this easter deep dive into gnostic gospels and buried knowledge.
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Celtic, Dominic Kelly, Gods and Goddesses, Interviews, Mythology, Performance, Storytelling
Dominic Kelly: The Hero Light – Irish Myth and Epic #8
Dominic Kelly is a performance storyteller who has ventured deep into the vast landscape of stories that surround the Irish mythological hero Cú Chulainn – so much so that he cycled around Ireland to see all the mythical places found in the Táin, sometimes called Ireland’s National Epic or the Irish Iliad.
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Butoh, Divination, Interviews, KAI-EN, Mikael Öberg, Mythology, Norse, Performance, Runes and Sigils, Specials, Storytelling
Performance premiere special: HRIST – an act of divination with KAI-EN and Mikael Öberg #7
"All of the drama of divination serves to move the participants out of their normal modes of thinking, shaking them up in order to change their minds because their current understanding of the situation is inadequate."
February 25th 2022 sees the premiere of a brand new collaboration between performance storyteller Mikael Öberg and butoh artist KAI-EN: HRIST – an act of divination.
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Celtic, Gods and Goddesses, Greek, Mythical Deep Dive, Mythology, Norse, Specials, Storytelling
Christmas Yuletide Special: The Pig #4
At this time of year, when pork will be served on many a holiday plate, we turn our attention to the pig - an animal both loved and loathed since ancient times. What are its mythological connections?
Join us in the divine muck, where we encounter kings and goddesses from Greek and Norse Mythology, as well as Celtic Druids and a fearsome ghost pig from the Swedish midwinter forests.
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Celtic, Interviews, Jo Blake, Mythology, Performance, Storytelling, Trickster
Jo Blake: What Does Myth Do Anyway? #3
”Flowers become flesh becomes bird…”
The first guest on our show is Jo Blake, a performer working across the disciplines of storytelling, theatre and dance. She has written a PhD about her project of unearthing the mythological character Blodeuwedd (flower-face/owl) from the depths of the Mabinogion - a medieval Welsh text regarded as one of the oldest and most complete repositories of British Celtic Myth.
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Gods and Goddesses, Interviews, Mikael Öberg, Mythology, Performance, Storytelling, Trickster
Inanna: Warrior, Trickster, Lover #2
A deep dive into the story of the extraordinarily powerful and multifaceted Mesopotamian goddess Inanna, prompted by the recent online release of Mikael Öberg's experimental collaboration with soundmaker Lee Berwick. Prepare for the underworld!