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So, at last Eamon Porktraddle, tin hat sparkling in the evening lights has realised what was gnawing away at him all these years. He didn’t need a doctor to tell him. What he saw through the grimy windows of the townhall brought it all into sudden, shocking focus.  In that instant he saw exactly how he is part of the great sharing of the Universe. How we move through time and space no matter what we are at any one particular moment. How the great cheese sandwich of energy passes through us and out as one great fart dance. Now he is ready for the great sea change in this the final episode.     Thank you for accompanying us all on this amazing journey.  For me, this has been a project lasting a dozen years and I have to acknowledge everybody who came with me:  Matt Wilkinson, Roddy Skeaping, Elinor Cooper, Clare Shervin, Holly Cooper, Timo Peach, Conrad Barr, Paul Kelly, Trisha Lewis, Howard Shepherd, Graham Howes, Mirek Lucan and of course Julian Harrow.  I’d also like to acknowledge the Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fund, Bournemouth Council, The Winchester when it was the greatest performance space in the town under Louise keeley and mark Berry and David lane at the Factory Studios. I’m sure there have been others and I’m truly sorry that I couldn’t achieve my goal of getting everybody’s voice into the recording somewhere. I hope this stays in the public realm for as long as possible advert free as a tribute to the idea of a cooperative enterprise where most people had no idea what I was up to.  Thank you all for your patience.   Still featuring in Feedspot top 15

I’ve been telling you about Eamon Porktraddle’s last day in this little seaside town where more than usual seems to be happening.  At the end of the last episode he was running hell for leather in his tinfoil hat to be somewhere. Somewhere more important even than an appointment with his doctor. If you count the tank full of fishes that he upset it brings the body count up to double figures. I think this all needs some sort of conclusion very soon. Especially as this is the penultimate episode.  And there are questions we all want answered.  Especially “What is the significance of the cheese sandwich?” Eamon Porktraddle    ....        Julian Harrow Gloria Swanson          ....         Trisha Lewis Mrs Emilia Grunt        .....         Holly Cooper Mermaids                   ....         Elinor Cooper and Paul Kelly                   ....          The Town Band   Still featuring in Feedspot top 15

Story so far.  Porktraddle.  Tinfoil hat.  Annoying mermaids.  Cheese sandwich.  Terrible accidents.  Got drunk.  Spent the afternoon in the launderette reading his poetry.  Suddenly remembers he has an appointment. Life and Death and Everything in Between by peter John Cooper with music by Julian Harrow.  Starring Julian Harrow as Eamon Porktraddle and Holly Cooper and Elinor Cooper as  the Mermaids.   Still featuring in Feedspot top 15  

Eamon Porktraddle wearing a hat fashioned from tinfoil is on some sort of quest which somehow seems to involve a triangular cheese sandwich and the principal of Entropy. This may just go some way towards explaining the tragedies that seem to beset this little sea side town.  Gloria Swanson, the Town mayor is having her hair done in preparation for tonight’s town planning meeting.  Porktraddle has acquired a five pound note and is trying to get drunk again following a dreadful accident on the cliffs. Although it takes a bit of effort to get drunk on five pounds.          Eamon Porktraddle .....     Julian Harrow Still featuring in Feedspot top 15

Porktraddle is still being bothered by the mermaids.  He’s come into town to see if he can find clues as to what he should be doing. Gloria Swanson has taken herself to the hairdresser before the important town planning meeting.  Porktraddle has accidentally broken a glass and Patrick has given him a five pound note.  This is apparently very significant.    Eamon Porktraddle    .......   Julian Harrow Mermaids                  ........   Holly Cooper                                            Elinor Cooper Gloria Swanson         ........   Trisha Lewis    Patrick                       ..........  Graham Howes   Still featuring in the top fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot  

Are you keeping up? Have you any idea what’s going on?  Well, I have dropped some massive hints so you ought to have some inkling by now.  But let’s just recap.  Eamon Porktraddle is on a quest to save the world.  But what on earth that involves he doesn’t know.  And he keeps getting distracted by the day to day life of the town.  He is wearing a tinfoil hat he made from rubbish on the beach to keep out the voices of the mermaids.  But the last day of summer is already looking ominous what with the discovery of a cheese sandwich, the threat of a nuclear holocaust and the unfortunate death of a marmalade cat and the cold eye of the town Mayor Gloria Swanson.  We can only assume that things are going to get worse. Eamon Porktraddle    .......   Julian Harrow Mermaids                  ........   Holly Cooper                                            Elinor Cooper Gloria Swanson         ........   Trisha Lewis      Still featuring in the top fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot  

The story so far: Eamon Porktraddle is on a quest.  Somehow, he knows it involves a cheese sandwich and a nuclear conflagration.  Gloria Swanson, the town Mayor shudders as she watches him at work picking up litter on the beach whilst singing loudly and making unhygienic noises but she is delighted to see a couple of young medical students heading for the cliffs for a day’s climbing.  These, she thinks are more like the people she wants to see here.  They are the hope for the future. Meanwhile Porktraddle heads for town centre. Eamon Porktraddle .....     Julian Harrow Still featuring in the top fifteen EngTop fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot

 The story so far: In his sleep Eamon Porktraddle visits the planet Kyarra where a vision of the earth and all its squalor is revealed to him.  He realises there is something he ought to be doing about it.  Next day whilst picking up litter on the beach and being driven mad by the mermaids who keep reminding him of his quest he finds a cheese sandwich.  The sandwich reminds him of something that happened in his past and which he has chosen to forget. Now listen on.   Eamon Porktraddle .....     Julian Harrow Mermaids               .....      Holly Cooper                                          Elinor Cooper Gloria Swanson     .......       Trisha Lewis   With thanks to Freesound Project Still featuring in the top fifteen EngTop fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot    

Eamon Porktraddle tries to remember the significance of the cheese sandwich he has found on the beach.  Is it religious?  Scientific?  Or something altogether darker. Eamon Porktraddle .....     Julian Harrow Mermaids               .....      Holly Cooper                                          Elinor Cooper   With thanks to Freesound Project Still featuring in the top fifteen EngTop fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot

Continuing Eamon Porktraddle's last day on Earth as he wrestles withthe voices inside his head.  And the mermaids whilst trying to clean the beach of all the litter the holidaymakers leave behind.  Today there is a sandwich still in its wrapper.   Eamon Porktraddle .....     Julian Harrow Mermaids               .....      Holly Cooper                                          Elinor Cooper   With thanks to Freesound Project   Still featuring in the top fifteen EngTop fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot  

Eamon Porktraddle is a mystery wrapped in enigma.  He lives in a tumbling tin shed above the dunes beneath a crackling humming pylon.  He likes to play on his old ukelele made from an old oil can.  But he is troubled.  Somewhere in the fug of his brain he knows there is something he should do.  Before it's too late... Eamon Porktraddle .....     Julian Harrow Mermaids               .....      Holly Cooper                                          Elinor Cooper   With thanks to Freesound Project "The Angels Weep" by Audionautix Planets sounds from NASA JPL   Still featuring in the top fifteen EngTop fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot

The miserly old Sir Reginald is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve and is forced to look at his life in the Past, Present and Future.  And, in spite of everything he learns a valuable lesson.   Still featuring in the top fifteen EngTop fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot  

Dame Amelia and her faithful Companion Miss Pymm thought they had retired from the secretive world of global tea espionage.  But then one fateful day, the Dreaded Tea Council is found to be up to its dirty tricks again and Dame Amelia is dragged out of her comfortable life to face up to what could be the Final Showdown. Still featuring in the top fifteen EngTop fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot  

I’m not a ghost, she said.  “I’m an artist.” “Would I have seen any of your work?” “You wouldn’t… couldn’t… understand it. Do you carry a knife with you?” The mysterious Molly Ingestre tries to explain herself and her art.  But cutting cute little squirrels into slices with a penknife is not going to help. Still featuring in the top fifteen EngTop fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot

Who is the Princess?  What is she doing in Bournemouth and why does she insist on wearing her golden crown on the beach?  Another slightly off-centre story set on the Bournemouth West Cliff by master story-teller Peter John Cooper.  (complete with home-made sound effects).   This story is inspired by a rather lovely painting by Clare Shervin. You can visit Clare's Etsy shop Clare De Lune here: Unique original art and design work by ClareDeLuneArt on Etsy   Still featuring in the top fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot

Free will?  You think? Haven't you ever wondered whether something, or somebody, is out there in control.  You might be surprised that one man's invention could have such an effect.  Revisiting this episode because it wasn't uploaded to You Tube and, in any case, you missed it first time around. Still featuring in the top fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot

  She pushes through the throng.  Their voices rise in volume.  “People.”  She says quietening them with a gesture , ”Friends.   Yes, friends.  Yes, you are all my friends.  Thank you for answering my call.” She has assembled everyone from the West Cliff together for a commission that will make them known the world over. And whilst preparing for it, she learns something about herself and the world she lives in. The last of this series of Tales From the Cliff Edge. Number 50. Thank you for joining me on this journey.  An opportunity to go back and listen to the stories you have missed. Thanks to all those who have joined the journey by reading and performing:  Jane McKell, Eltjo deVries, Trisha Lewis, Holly Cooper, Elinor Cooper.  Thanks also to the Freesound Project with whom I share field recordings. Still featuring in the top fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot  

You may have always wanted a dolphin for a pet.  They're always smiling aren't they.  But you may have forgotten when there was a craze for keeping dolphins and things didn't turn out as expected.  We saw it all from up here on the West Cliff. Still featuring in the top fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot

 It was the most gruesome, despicable, inexplicable, cold blooded crime ever to confront any police officer in the course of their duties.  And the fact that it happened in sleepy, supposedly family friendly Bournemouth only serves to underline the grimness of the case with blood. A gruesome story specially written for Halloween by Peter John Cooper #Bournemouth #WestCliff #Halloween   Still featuring in the top fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot

It’s when luck suddenly turns against you that it becomes dangerous.  It’s like a big dog that lollops amiably at your heels until, one day, it goes mad and tries to tear your throat out. It’s like the sea. A storm that blows up out of nowhere.  Another chilling story from #PeterJohnCooper  #Bournemouth #WestCliff #StoryTelling   Still featuring in the top fifteen English language story sites on Feedspot.Feedspot