Another Story
Episodes
Storyteller: Martyn Bennett and the Travellers' Stories
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The music of the pioneering Scottish musician Martyn Bennett flowed with many inspirations. In particular, his final album Grit saw him draw upon the ...
Queer Folks' Tales (with Turan Ali & Bella Houston)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Queer Folks’ Tales is a hugely popular storytelling series in Scotland where queer storytellers from a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and cultur...
Open Hearth: Live! (with Bob Mitchell, Kirsten Milliken and Claire White)
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us live from the Netherbow Theatre in the Scottish Storytelling Centre for another Open Hearth session of stories and music. Featuring storytelle...
Emerging Storytellers in Europe (with Winter de Cock & Geoffrey van der Ven)
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded during SISF 2025, we spoke with emerging storytellers Winter de Cock and Geoffrey van der Ven, who joined us from Belgium and The Netherlands...
Open Hearth: Live! (with Beverley Bryant, Colin Urwin, Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen and Marit Fält)
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us live from the Netherbow Theatre in the Scottish Storytelling Centre for an Open Hearth session of stories and music. Featuring storytellers Be...
The People of the Sea (with Ruth Kirkpatrick & The EHFM Culture Show)
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with the EHFM Culture Show and storyteller Ruth Kirkpatrick, discussing Ruth's storytelling journey and her SISF show The People of the S...
A Blether for World Storytelling Day, 20 March 2025 (with Ailsa Dixon & Tim Porteus)
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation from March 2025 (World Storytelling Day!) with Ailsa Dixon and Tim Porteus, initially recorded for EHFM. We cover a whole range of topi...
Open Hearth: Live! (with Peter Chand, Erin Farley, Beth Malcolm & Donald Smith)
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us live from the Netherbow Theatre in the Scottish Storytelling Centre for an Open Hearth session of stories and music. Featuring storytellers Pe...
Storytelling in Scotland: Celebrating 35 years of SISF! (with Beverley Bryant, Donald Smith and Joanne Urwin)
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined in this episode by Storytelling Festival Director Donald Smith, Chair of the Scottish Storytelling Forum Beverley Bryant and...
Weaving Historical Tales in Scotland & India (with Niall Moorjani, Kirsten Milliken & Neel Paul)
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our episode today is a wide ranging conversation with three different storytellers working across two projects in the 2024 Scottish International Stor...
Untangling Life’s Story (with Jacqueline Harris & Maja Bugge)
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with storyteller Jacqueline Harris and musician Maja Bugge who tell us about their upcoming show Slowing Down to the Speed of ...
Village Storytelling Festival & FEST (with Helen Mill, Dan Serridge & Arjen Barel)
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with Helen Mill and Dan Serridge from the Village Storytelling Centre whose festival of contemporary and community storytellin...
Rickle O Stanes (with Shona Cowie & Neil Sutcliffe)
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We begin Season 2 of Another Story by sharing a conversation between two fantastic artists, Shona Cowie and Neil Sutcliffe, who discuss their new proj...
Open Hearth: Live from the Scottish Storytelling Centre! (with Fiona Herbert, Dougie Mackay, Rachel Newton & Tim Porteus)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our final episode in this first series is something a bit different from the previous five and a little bit special... We are delighted to share a ful...
Storytelling's Reach (with Ailie Finlay & Claire McNicol)
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we explore storytelling's reach with two storytellers, Ailie Finlay and Claire McNicol, who have centred their work around community sto...
Illness and Mythology (with Svend-Erik Engh & Alice Fernbank)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we meet storytellers Svend-Erik Engh and Alice Fernbank. Two international storytellers, both living and working together in Edinburgh...
Young Storytellers (with Ailsa Dixon & Ffion Phillips)
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us this week as we catch up with two of the UK's leading young storytellers, Ailsa Dixon and Ffion Phillips, to hear about their journeys so ...
Migration and Sanctuary (with Anna Conomos-Wedlock & Gauri Raje)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we chat with two storytellers, Anna Conomos-Wedlock and Gauri Raje, who had never actually met before, but are both doing i...
Stories Not Often Told (with Peter Chand & Ruth Kirkpatrick)
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode of Another Story we chat with two of the world’s leading storytellers, Peter Chand and Ruth Kirkpatrick who tell us about their...
TRAILER: Another Story
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Another Story, a new series of stories and conversations brought to you in friendship by the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. ...