Whilst they amuse and bemuse stories can also ask questions of what we think we know and what we think is right.  John tells a selection of traditional tales told for the 21st century and of the 21st century, with themes of anger and revenge, of the use and misuse of power, of the treatment of older people, of who controls the ‘public’ stories.  Stories that speak of sustainability as not just choice of wrappings and plastic, but about our fundamental relationships with this world and those we share it with, human and non human