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Dame Ragnall
a King Arthur story

Sound recording, song and story; Dame Ragnall, a legend and riddling tale from the legends of King Arthur, told by Giles Abbott, as part of the programme New Voices, in the Pavilion at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 3rd July 2004.

Introduction by David Ambrose to the New Voices programme and storytellers Giles Abbott, Atinuke and Dave Robertson. These are storytellers who have not appeared at Beyond the Border Festival in the past. Introduction, song and comment on the nature of storytelling, followed by story told by Giles Abbott. A story about King Arthur out hunting alone, except for his dog. He is kidnapped and taken as a slave. He gains his freedom by agreeing to find the answer to the riddle of what a women desires the most. The answer is given by an ugly women in return for Gawain's hand in marriage. Gawain agrees to the wedding and when he kisses his bride, she becomes beautiful and is released from her spell of ugliness.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 32 minutes, 42 seconds

Performing in the New Voices programme were Giles Abbott, Dave Robertson and Atinuke.

Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around 2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales. Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post (the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995 festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey, Richard Berry and Michael Harvey.

storytelling:- storyteller: Giles Abbott
male / British

storytelling:- Master of Ceremonies; Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
male / British / occupation Director of St Donats Arts Centre

origin:- Britain Ireland Brittany
Celtic


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Festival programme

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Giles Abbot in performance

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associated:- storyteller: Atinuke


associated:- storyteller: Dave Robertson


programming:- Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose


administration:- administrator: St Donats Arts Centre


storytelling:- St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art Centre: Pavilion
03 Jul 2004
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
New Voices


gift from:- St Donats Arts Centre


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