Episode 4

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16th Apr 2022

Murmurs and Rumours under a Pink Moon

Welcome to Michael Loader’s monthly episodes of full moon sleepovers from 2021. In April last year he climbed the heights of Brockley Combe in North Somerset, in the footsteps of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to meet the ‘Pink Moon’ – a super moon in full glow.

… “Since becoming a selenophile, a lover of the moon named after Selene the ancient Greek moon goddess, I am looking forward to my first conscious bout of moon delusion tonight when the moon will look even bigger when it appears on the horizon. This eagerly anticipated moment will be accompanied by, I hope, its pinkish hue, due to atmospheric distortion or air pollution; or something more poetic like the awakening energy of spring?” … 

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Written and performed by Michael Loader

Music written and performed by Amy Summers

Asclepius

Night

Instagram: amy.composer

Produced by Pommy Harmar

pommyharmar@yahoo.co.uk

www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com

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About the Podcast

Sleeping with the Moon
What does a full moon mean to you? Have you ever slept out under one and watched it rise?

Storyteller Michael Loader has done just that. During the year of 2021, he spent one night a month sleeping out in a bivvi bag under the full moon and each experience inspired him to create a unique piece of writing.

On each full moon during 2022, we will release that story.

Produced by Pommy Harmar
Photo by Alex Andrews from www.pexels.com

About your hosts

Michael Loader

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Michael Loader is a storyteller, writer and workshop leader working with all ages from pre-schoolers to elders. He works with the Read For Good charity in children’s hospitals, director of Somerset Storyfest and storyteller in residence with Wild Words at St George’s concert hall Bristol.

“Michael clearly has storytelling in his soul and his love of people and of engaging the audience in the story is abundantly apparent in all of his wonderful shows”.
National Arboretum Westonbirt

Email: foolworks@yahoo.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Somerset-Storyfest-428942520456383/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCPBIzlPFZQiO4HwRlwMjz4w

Pommy Harmar

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Freelance journalist, radio producer, podcaster and walker, Pommy has been working in radio since 2013. She has produced and hosted podcasts including Footprints, The Quarantini, and Follow The Sun.

Footprints season 2 starts January 2022, a podcast produced for Bathscape exploring inter-generational themes around the landscape surrounding the city of Bath.

"Big, big fan of your podcast. All your topics were relevant and fascinating to me as an older, female solo walker for the first time in the U.K." (Season 1 listener)

Email: pommyharmar@yahoo.co.uk