The Apple Seed

 Sam Payne is the host of a wonderful storytelling show on KBYU radio called The Apple Seed.

During its beginning years, The Apple Seed depended entirely on storytelling CDs from noted storytellers throughout the United States and beyond.  As the popularity of the show increased, a podcast version was added.

Now, twelve times each year, tellers are brought into the KBYU studio to create live recordings with a small audience for use in the show.

On Tuesday of this week, it was my turn to get to record the live Apple Seed storytelling hour.

With a tight little studio audience I got to record six stories for the program.  These stories were recorded so that they might be edited as a set or each one used individually in ongoing programming.  We had lots of fun playing with this little audience in a space that was deliberately tight so that the audience would be visible as well as the teller.

As the week goes along, more recording will be done with Ed Stivender, Josh Goforth, and Lyn Ford.  The Apple Seed is building up quite a library of live telling that will gradually be an archive of storytelling for the future.

If you want to find out how you can listen to The Apple Seed, google the show on KBYU radio and you will find it there.