Ropetackle Storytellers: Sacred Herbs of Britain

Olwen, the daughter of a giant, has hair yellower than the broom and cheeks pinker than the foxglove. Everywhere she walks, she leaves a trail of white clover, and she lives in the mythic Welsh landscape of the Mabinogion — Wales's oldest collection of written stories.

Bilingual storyteller Claire Mace blends herb lore with the folk tales of Wales as she walks us through Olwen's territory — a land where every tree and plant has their own story to tell, and their own place in myth and history.

This traditional storytelling performance has been developed thanks to the Gwobr Esyllt Prize from Chwedl, the network of women storytellers in Wales.