... Stories that change the world ...

.... stories are at the heart of everything -newspapers, TV, film, games,  soap opera , books, religion, everything we connect to as human beings (even gossip) has a story and (after all) that's also how we learn - and always learned - at our mother's knee, through dad and mum's stories of our relatives,our parents themselves, from our schoolmates and from fabled mythical characters. But also as we grew up we absorbed the characters we saw on the internet and TV (both real and fictional)  not to mention the eternal influence the extraordinary people we heard about in the play ground.

And now we yearn for the contemporary stories of modern celebreties a, reality TV stars,  X factor winners and page 3 girls - all giving us stories of their lives so far and who they are dating and in which photoshoot or vlog they are having sex - but we also delight in ordinary middle class girls marrying Princes, of sexual extravagance amongst politicians and of untold generosity in strange and wonderful places -

and we continue to learn

so imaginative surprises in our stories with inspiring role models, insights and attempts at the secrets of life - this is the top end of the storytelling - and this is what drives me most - the compulsion to tell good rich and compelling stories - simple and complex - but stories that will change our lives forever

be they documentary fact or fiction

and Star Trek TOS; and the story of how 4 ordinary lads from Liverpool shook the world; the story of Washoe the chimpanzee  which I eagerly consumed at the age of 7 on BBC 2 Sat afternoon TV [summarised at http://www.holah.karoo.net/gardnerstudy.htm]  are the building block upon which my life is built

So let's tell good stores and let's tell them well - allowing people to enjoy educate and consider all at the same time - Stories that change the world ...:)