Saturday brings the first interview episode of Voice of the Fire: Our guest is Mehdi EL Ghaly – a prolific storyteller from Morocco who has appeared at TEDxMarrakesh and is working with Confluence Upland in an international collaboration.

The first part deals with Moroccan storytelling in general – we talk about Al-Halqa and the state of Moroccan storytelling. The interview follows, giving us a view into Mehdi’s life as a storyteller. To finish up – a story from Richard Hamilton’s book The Last Storytellers.

Enjoy and please share if you like what you hear.