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🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:06.8 | Ed Riddens' Week by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nichols. |
0:11.9 | Episode 1, The Storyteller. |
0:18.0 | But perhaps the most egregiously overrated feature |
0:20.9 | of the current literary landscape, |
0:22.6 | no less penacious than banter and beat boxing, |
0:25.7 | is storytelling. |
0:27.4 | Every book, festival, community centre |
0:29.9 | and low-budget art programme |
0:32.0 | now features a self-styled storyteller. |
0:35.2 | I have a story to tell, |
0:37.1 | they in tone in an otherworldly voice. |
0:39.2 | Well, with respect, I suggest you do not have a story to tell. |
0:42.5 | I suggest you have a characterful hat |
0:44.8 | and a self-satisfied expression |
0:47.0 | and an infantilised view of a world populated |
0:49.7 | by wealthy merchants and apothecaries and woodmen, |
0:52.7 | but what you absolutely do not have is a story. |
0:55.8 | And even in the unlikely event that you did have one, |
0:58.2 | I'll take a shrewd guess that you would have no idea |
1:00.6 | how to construct and deliver it. |
1:02.3 | Whereas, say, a properly scripted TV drama, |
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