Welcome to A Word In Your Ear. Thanks for dropping in.
A Word In Your Ear is all about stories. We don’t think that people spend enough time telling stories these days.
We think stories are one of the best ways to explore what it means to be human. We think stories help us to answer fundamental questions like ‘what are we doing here?’ and ‘was it cosy in the Middle Ages?’ We also think that stories are fun.
We like the way our ancestors enjoyed stories – by listening to them.
So we run Story Fridays in our local town, Bath, here in Somerset. Every couple of months we gather a group of writers and invite people to listen to what inspires them about a theme. Our next event is coming up on Friday July 5th at 8.00pm at Burdall’s Yard on the London Road. The theme is The Sea, The Sea, appropriate we hope in light of what we’re sure is going to be a scorching summer. We’ll have some sand in our sandwiches, a stick of rock to take us back to our days with buckets and spades, and some wild and wavy stories for you to splash around in.
Some comments on Story Fridays from our audience members:
‘Best Friday night guaranteed!’ ’The stories were good, often funny and well told – great venue!’ ’Wonderful.’ ’Excellent’. ’Lovely ambiance – great music!’ ’Great evening, superb stories.’ ’Very inspiring with lovely performances.’ ’Thoroughly enjoyable, great way to spend a Friday evening, thank you!’ ’The vibe is good, encouraging, fun, go-ahead, upbeat’. ’Stories are of a better quality than many we hear on Radio 4′.
Maybe you’d like to submit a story? Or come along and hear how our writers have been inspired? Either way, we’d love to hear from you.
We also make audio dramas - or we are going to soon. Because nowadays we don’t need a campfire, we can carry our stories about with us on the go. Click here to find out more.
Get in touch if you’d like to be involved.
Thank you for visiting, come again soon.
Here’s a flavour of Mars, Story Friday in March:
These images were taken by photographer Ben Langdon. Visit his website here.
Greetings to All at “A Word in Your Ear.” I’m a Brit living in New York and am a member of All Souls Unitarian Church here on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We have a short story group called “Stories with Soul”, and meet every Wednesday for a reading and discussion. The whole thing takes an hour. The group was formed some 15 years ago by Warren Bryant, a radio actor. There’s an overall co-ordinator who recruits a host for any particular month. That host then picks a different reader for each Wednesday of their month. (We have a goodly stock of thespians, and plain old hams, like me.) That reader chooses his / her own story, so it’s all very democratic … and fun ! Stories range from classic through contemporary. Next week, on 10th of April, I’ll read Clare’s “The New Religion” and “The Card” by James Ross. I’m looking forward to it.
Kind regards
Neil
Sounds fantastic Neil! Any way that we can listen to it online? Or do we have to be in Manhattan….
Alas and alack, you’d probably have to organise a jaunt over to New York, altho’ perhaps I could get a techie pal to record something at some point. Love your story, and look forward to reading it to our band of stalwarts. Will let you know how it goes.
Good luck with it Neil! In the meantime, should anyone want to read The New Religion, you can go to the lovely short story site East of the Web and read it there. Click here: < http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/NewReli904.shtml>
Hello, Clare
Last evening’s reading of “The New Religion” went very well. We had a good turnout of 22 souls., and as it happened, a friend was able to tape it. Here it is :
http://vimeo.com/63789885.
Hope you can open it OK.
… and, actually I found your story on “East of the Web.” It’s an excellent site.
With kind regards to you, and all at ” A Word in Your Ear.”
Neil
Lovely Neil! So interesting to hear someone else read it! I’m glad that you and your group enjoyed the story.
Clare