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Test Valley Tales Podcast

Merry-go-Round Storytelling

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From dragons and magical fish, to enchanted trees and spectral horses, storyteller Amanda Kane-Smith brings the landscape of Test Valley in Hampshire to life with folk tales and local legends. Accompanied with music by Paul Sartin and traditional Hampshire Dance tunes of the Pyle Family manuscript
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Ira Victor with Samantha Stone

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Security News Podcast features information security specialist Ira Victor and award-winning journalist Samantha Stone in a fast-paced news program about data security, the law, and the digital underworld. Your security depends on these weekly updates, with topics spanning data confidentiality, disaster recovery, encryption, open source and more.
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This episode's Test Valley Tale is a spookily magical tale. It’s a mash up of a local ghost sighting of a horse drawn carriage on New Year’s Eve and an Aesop’s fable - ‘The Horse, Hunter and Stag’. I wanted to create an origin story for the ghost sighting. And as Wellow sits by the edge of the New Forest, I thought it would be fun to connect the ho…
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This episode's Test Valley Tale is a magical tale with environmental themes and is perfect listening for folktale lovers young and old. One morning when Tom the miller goes to collect wood for his fire, he finds himself in a strange new world where trees can talk and a water nixie gives him a gift of an enchanted flute. Having begun so well, will T…
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This episode's Test Valley Tale is a magical wish story. As Mary makes her weekly trip along the Sprat and Winkle Railway line from Stockbridge to Mottisfont, she encounters a fish on a bridge! This is when things take a turn for the magical as the fish offers her a wish. Just one wish. What will Mary wish for? ‘The Magical Fish of Mottisfont’ is m…
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This is a magical tale of love and tragedy, set in one of Test Valley’s beautiful chalk rivers. Isolda and Benen discover their shared love for each other and the natural world and plan to get married. When tragedy strikes, however, a legend is created and ultimately tested by someone who has lost his belief in magic. This is my adaptation of ‘The …
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Set in one of Hampshire's most famous landmarks: the Iron Age Hillfort of Danebury Hill, this week's episode is a magical story which brings to life the wood which circles the fort. The story takes place in the 16th century when a Royal Charter was granted for Danebury to be used as a site for a rural fair, on a very hot day in late July, as John t…
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In this episode I tell one of Hampshire's most famous stories. And best of all it's about a dragon! With the head of a cockerel and the tail of a serpent, this type of dragon is known as a cockatrice, and this one caused chaos in the little village of Wherwell about 400 years ago... or so they say. This is a great story for all the family and I hav…
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In this episode I tell a historical tale full of deceit and murder based in Harewood Forest. 'Halfway along The Middleway, which lies between Picket Twenty and Longparish, there is a small wooden stile hidden in the hedge. Climb over this stile and walk across the sloping field. At the top you will find a path; that will take you into Deadman’s Pla…
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In this episode I tell a story based in the beautiful village of Amport. Based on an old English folk tale, 'The Baker's Daughter of Amport' tells the story of a baker’s daughter who pays a magical price for her lack of kindness. It’s a little bit spooky this one, so if you are listening with very young children it may not be the best episode for b…
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This is a brilliantly jolly tale with a great environmental message: 'Can we really own a piece of land? And if the land could speak, what would she have to say about it?' When two farmers begin to fight over who owns a meadow, a small bog fairy has a very wise solution to solve their disagreement. This story is part of Test Valley Tales. 'Test Val…
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Hello, I'm Amanda. In this episode I retell a local ghost legend from Vernham Dean in Test Valley, set in the time of the plague. Legend says that the vicar, wracked with guilt, still haunts the old Roman road that leads to the top of Conholt Hill. But why is his ghost still there and what is his guilty secret? This story is suitable for children a…
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The moon doesn't have blue skies because there is no atmosphere to spread light which breaks down into blue skies for our eyes. Some people don't have blue skies in life because there is no Holy Spirit to spread the Light of God, which breaks down into blue skies for our spirits. Listen. It's fascinating and makes you just want to scream and hug Go…
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"Happy Sunday! Because Every Day is 'Son'day" is a fun and fascinating daily devotional that uses the natural to explain the spiritual truths in a way they can be easily understood and applied. The Happy Sunday! podcast, hosted by the author of the book , Pastor Stacey, explores its messages in a spirit and knowledge-filled splash fashion that spla…
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Our first podcast with Day 1 of the daily inspiring read "Happy Sunday! Because Every Day is 'Son'day." Who is Pastor Stacey and what's he talking about? It's all answered here, and the answers will have you sitting like a bird on the wire. Listen until the end. :) I love you in the name of Jesus Christ. Happy "Son"day!…
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