Event Details
Series 1 is ‘Tales from the Cross’
Series 2 is ‘Women’s Voices’
Series 3 is ‘The Great Gloucester Novel’
Created by playwright Jarek Adams & Andrew Thorn
‘Tales from the Cross’ is an interactive audio experience designed to stimulate individuals into thinking about their city, its past, present and future, and their part in its story. Recorded in 2020, and released as podcasts with additional material in 2021
‘Women’s Voices’ is a series of short stories written by Gloucestershire women about something that changed their lives! This series was launched at a Gloucester History Festival City Voices event in September 2021
‘The Great Gloucester Novel’ was a project run by Andrew Thorn where he worked with community groups around the city and wrote short stories based on their suggestions which were then woven into one story about a strange visitor experiencing life in the city.
‘Tales from the Cross’ & ‘Women’s Voices’ were both commissioned by the City Voices strand of the Gloucester History Festival, and ‘The Great Gloucester Novel’ was funded by Arts Council England.
Listen to Gloucester Tales Podcast on all major podcast platforms or by using the link below.
Season Three of Gloucester Tales is ‘The Great Gloucester Novel’. In 2015, Andrew Thorn worked with groups in Gloucester to write short stories, and then built on those to create a novel called ‘Pride of Gloucester’. These are some of the original stories.
Episode 5 – ‘The Animals Under the Cathedral’ – was inspired by suggestions from a special needs cookery club at the Redwell Centre in Gloucester. A council of wild animals live peacefully in secret beneath Gloucester Cathedral, until zoo-keepers try to capture them and they have to go on the run disguised as humans. However, the mayhem they unwittingly cause leads to a surprising new opportunity.
‘The Great Gloucester Novel’ is part of the Gloucester Tales Podcast, written and produced by Jarek Adams and Andrew Thorn. The original project and the novel it produced were funded by Arts Council England.
You can buy copies of ‘Pride of Gloucester’ here:
