Wild Tales

A storytelling journey round Scotland

With live music by Scottish honorary citizen and accordeonist, Georg MacLosch

Storyteller and Scottish diaspora, Rachel Clarke shares inspirational stories, and gives you deep and humorous insights into Scotland, past, present and future.   

Hear the true tall tales of heroes of our times, who saved their communities and themselves. Visit the island of Eigg in the far North-West and learn what an eccentric German artist had to do with their independence story. Experience the mythic adventures of young lovers, Diarmid and Grania on the run from the wrath of Fian, the ruler of the Celtic kingdom from the ancient Ossian saga. 

Discover the rebirth of storytelling as a modern spoken-word genre, as it is flourishing in Scotland. Here in analogue 3D style.

These are tales old and new, exaggerated and true of a country and its people, who are as wildly unpredictable as the Scottish weather, madly compensating for their reputation, lovers of social justice, and with sense of humour typically even darker than that of Monty Python.

Over the last 30 years, the Scots have re-invented themselves, shaken off their famous chip on their shoulder – just missed voting to leave the United Kingdom.  What now – after Brexit?  Let’s imagine life in an independent Scotland together – the good, the political and the macabre.