TTTO Podcast Episode 1, Duncan Williamson Series: My first podcast!
Release Date: 03/04/2020
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Today's focus is education and my guest is Casey Bailey, the Birmingham Poet Laureate and Assistant Head Teacher.
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In this episode, I talk to Graham Cleland, a graffitti artist from County Durham - and my cousin.
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In her teens Amy Douglas apprenticed to traditional Scottish Traveller storyteller and ballad singer. Now Amy is digitising and listening to a treasure trove of reel-to-reel tapes of Duncan.
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My name is Amy Douglas and I am a traditional oral storyteller. I learned much of my craft from Scottish Traveller storyteller, Duncan Williamson. I'm currently digitising boxes and boxes of reel to reel tapes he gave me with help from the School of Scottish Studies. Here is a first story from that archive and an introduction to who Duncan was.
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Amy Douglas was Duncan Williamson's apprentice - she introduces her project to digitise the tapes her left. A short sample podcast
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My name is Amy Douglas and I am a traditional oral storyteller. I learned much of my craft from Scottish Traveller storyteller, Duncan Williamson. I'm currently digitising boxes and boxes of reel to reel tapes he gave me with help from the School of Scottish Studies. Here is a first story from that archive and an introduction to who Duncan was.
In future podcasts I will be sharing more of Duncan's stories and meeting up with other storytellers and artists influenced by Duncan to talk about why - and if! - his stories are still relevant today.