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Giles Abbott

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Alexander Pope: A Search For Perfection Is Back!

13th September 201626th September 2016 Giles Abbott

After a sold out run at Pope’s Grotto and Twickenham Library, Alexander Pope: A Search For Perfection is back! I will be performing the show at The Old Sorting Office in Barnes on 13th October – tickets are now on sale here. Pope is a poet I avoided at Uni because his idea of poetry […]

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Saturday Live, BBC Radio 4, 20/2/16

23rd February 201623rd February 2016 Giles Abbott

I was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s “Saturday Live” on 20th Feb. Great fun. Programme started late because of a technical hitch and there was even a blackout in the studio (I confess, I didn’t really notice!). It’s a great programme, with Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir hosting. You can listen to the whole […]

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Old and New – a Happy New Year tale!

31st December 20156th January 2016 Giles Abbott

To usher in 2016, I thought I would tell you a story about the turning of time, about renewal and about hope. Happy New Year! See you on the other side…  

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Why The Robin Has A Red Breast – A Christmas Story

24th December 20156th January 2016 Giles Abbott

And now for my final story before Christmas – Why The Robin Has A Red Breast (and became a hero). Hope you all have an enchanting Christmas of love, happiness and good old overindulgence and check back on New Year’s Eve for something to see you through into 2016…  

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Miss Lucy and The Angel – A Christmas Story

22nd December 20156th January 2016 Giles Abbott

So to celebrate the solstice, today’s story is a magical tale to keep your heart warm in these dark, dark days and nights… Let me know if you have any Christmas favourites I could read!  

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Big Cattle, Little Cattle

18th December 20156th January 2016 Giles Abbott

Hey ho (ho, ho)! To brighten up your Christmas, I thought I’d share a couple of stories with you. Today’s is called Big Cattle, Little Cattle and is a traditional Russian Christmas tale with hearty borscht, glad tidings and an obscene amount of rats… Check back for more tales of snow and mayhem and don’t […]

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A new project and a new (old) story

26th January 201514th January 2016 Giles Abbott

A New Project, a new (old) story! So, a BBC World Service journalist called Richard Hamilton, working in Morocco, has discovered and fallen in love with the public, open air storytelling traditions of Marrakesh and has discovered the tradition is under threat. For years, storytellers have been able to perform in a particular square and […]

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Recent Posts

  • Sunnybank Allotments 9th August 2018
  • Alexander Pope: A Search For Perfection Is Back! 13th September 2016
  • At the Telling Tales Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 1st August 2016
  • New Season of Stories on a Sunday Now ON SALE! 27th July 2016
  • Tickets On Sale for AO Hume – The Unseen Force, at the National Portrait Gallery 25th July 2016
  • Shakespearean Story Madness at the Telling Tales Festival, London 14th July 2016
  • FREE Family Storytelling over the Summer Holidays! 13th July 2016
  • June and July Storytelling News, London, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, East Anglia 30th May 2016

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