Storyteller explores how and why we tell stories. From writers to musicians, therapists to architects, we are all engaged in building the world we live in through the stories we tell about ourselves, others and the world. A podcast for the curious, host Lisa Golden interviews this wide range of storytellers to explore the nuance, beauty and quirky edges of how and why a story has been told, exploring how the way power, art, otherness and belonging continues to change across time. Hosted on A ...
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Millennials Seeking Spirituality | Former Chosen Chief of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids Philip Carr-Gomm
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Do you consider yourself a spiritual person? This week on Storyteller, host Lisa Golden speaks to author, psychologist and former Chosen Chief of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Philip Carr-Gomm, about what modern spirituality looks like for those who've moved away from the formal religions of their childhoods. In this wide-ranging topic the…
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Are you ready for some storytelling school? Today's class - the love interest Queer Creative's founder Cathie Swan takes us on a deep-dive into how the deepest human desire to find love has been used to write some truly terrible love interests over the years. Using 2007's blockbuster hit Next starring Nicolas Cage and Jessica Biel, Cathie guides us…
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The Evolving Meaning Of Burnout | Professor Gail Kinman
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Are we all burnt out? The term became so ubiquitous during the pandemic it came close to losing its meaning. However for many people struggling to managing the stresses of lockdown, childcare, demanding jobs and economic uncertainty, it became a way to communicate something quickly and with limited vulnerability. "I'm burned out" became a way to sa…
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Hello fellow Storytellers! This is a quick updates and apology for the pause in interviews. Lisa is back next week with some of the world's most interesting and dynamic storytellers, as well as new episodes of Storyteller Basics where we can all learn more about the craft of storytelling. Thank you for your patience and please check out the new web…
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The Hero’s Journey with The Matrix | Storyteller Basics
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We’re trying something new over at Storyteller HQ! After the success of the Story Spine episode, host Lisa Golden and Cathie Swan from Queer Creatives UK are back to cover some of the most interesting storytelling basics! This week we dig into The Hero’s Journey. This storytelling framework is part theory, part philosophy. Lisa takes Cathie through…
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The Stories Of Our Panic Years | Writer Nell Frizzell
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The story of motherhood is one of the most powerful narratives in women’s lives from a very early age. Whether you dream of a large brood or are determined to never have kids, the question becomes magnified when you reach your late twenties and early thirties. Writer Nell Frizzell has written about the pressure of this period in her and other women…
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What's Your Money Story? | Pennies To Pounds Founder Kia Commodore
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Do you find it hard to talk about money? In the household where you grew up, did the adults talk about money? Was it a source of stress, or a source of power? Money can sometimes seem like it’s not from the world of storytelling. It’s cold, hard. Lines on a sheet. Digital transactions whooshing around the globe. But the stories we learn and we tell…
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Can You Challenge Your Perceptions? | Writer, Podcaster and Coach Tiffany Philippou
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How can we challenge our perceptions around work, love and life that may not be serving us? Writer and podcast host Tiffany Philippou bases her various forms of storytelling from this perspective. From taking on the messy parts of work on her podcast Is This Working?, to her weekly newsletter, to working as a coach, Tiffany is looking for ways to m…
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Sparking Your Creative Curiosity | Artist and Channel Twelve Founder Sam Furness
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How do you cultivate creativity in your everyday life? This week on the pod, founder and quest leader at Channel Twelve, Sam Furness, tells us about his journey to becoming a “parallel pather”. Alongside his work as a music artist manager at Everybody’s Management, Sam started experimenting with ways to bring curiosity and creativity into his every…
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BONUS EPISODE: The Story Spine And Character Development With Cathie Swan from Queer Creatives UK
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BONUS EPISODE! Trying out something new on Storyteller, host Lisa Golden speaks to founder of Queer Creatives UK, Cathie Swan. Digging into their mutual love for storytelling, they go back to the very basics. Lisa goes through The Story Spine using The Lion King, and Cathie goes into what it means to develop compelling characters through a discussi…
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Can We Make The Media More Diverse? | PressPad Founder Olivia Crellin
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How do we make the media more diverse? This question is one that almost all industry have not really been able to address. Because, in part, it’s hard to know where to start, which makes it all the easier to shrug your shoulders and not do anything. There are structural inequalities in education, health, access. Different people have different leve…
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Profiling Britain's Biggest Rap And Grime Stars | Writer Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom
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We are starting season two with our feet planted firmly in 2021. I want to use this podcast to learn more about the world and the wonderful people who occupy it. I hope by following my curiosity, scratching my own itch, I can make something of value that will help expand how you see the world. The world of music is one I’ve never been super engaged…
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That's a wrap! Season One of Storyteller is complete. Host Lisa Golden tells a story from her own life and what she's hopes for 2021 and season 2 of the podcast. SHOW NOTES: The article on secondary trauma I referred too - read here. Send host Lisa Golden your thoughts about the show on Twitter @lisajozi or @storytellerpod1 Instagram @lisagoldenjoz…
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Race, Climate Change And The Moral Complicity Of Capitalism | Climate Researcher and Educator Joycelyn Longdon
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Climate change is a reality that every single one of use will have to deal with. There is a universality to it, a global truth, that in theory, should transcend all the things that divide us. But it doesn’t and it hasn’t. In huge part, because the people who are already feeling the impacts of climate change are mostly people of colour or are from p…
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Exploring The Edges Of Grief | Artist Chez Dunford
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2020 has been a year of loss. Nearly 1.5 million people have died from covid-19. Millions more have lost their health. We’ve lost our routines, our plans, many have lost their livelihoods. We’ve lost a whole world really, for every mention of the new normal, we’re grieving the old normal. This year was a crash course in grief and loss. Some were ne…
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Anger And Activism | Social Activist & Teacher Lama Rod Owens
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Anger shows up in all of our lives, to varying degrees, for varying reasons. We rage at our politicians, rage against broken hearts, rage against systems that produce inequality, racism, homophobia and misogyny. While it can drive us, show us where the hurt is, anger is a volatile tool. We’re often not in charge of it, as much as we like to believe…
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Being Single, Finding Your Voice And Building Your Community | Writer Nicola Slawson
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Journalist and writer Nicola Slawson wanted to read more stories that reflected her experience. In her 30s and single, she was sick of dating guides or stories of women desperately trying to find love. She started The Single Supplement, a newsletter for single women that didn’t patronise them or assume that their only goal in life was finding a par…
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The Violent Falsehood Of Whites | Writer Otegha Uwagba
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On this slightly different episode of Storyteller, host Lisa Golden speaks to writer Otegha Uwagba about her new essay Whites: On Race And Other Falsehoods. The essay explores Uwagba’s impressions and discomfort as the Black Lives Matter movement reignited a conversation about race all over the world, as she disentangled social media reactions, ant…
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Wellness Culture Can F*** Off - A New Look At Living With Chronic Illness with Lucy Pasha-Robinson
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When you’re not well, there are some things you don’t want to hear… Have you tried yoga? Are you drinking enough water? Have to tried this supplement, or that wacky Goop craze? Well, today’s guest, Lucy Pasha Robinson, the opinions editor at HuffPost UK, has had enough. Which is why she’s the host of their new podcast series called Chronic. Chronic…
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The Violence Of Powerful Neighbours | Filmmakers Rodrigo Hernandez & Elpida Nikou
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“Poor Mexico, So far from God. So close to the United States” These famous words, of the late Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, describe a difficult, bloody relationship between neighbours. The economically dominant and powerful USA, hungry for drugs, and their neighbour to the south, Mexico, that provides them. In this episode of Storyteller, host L…
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YouTubers, TikTokers And Influencers, Oh My! | Journalist Chris Stoker-Walker
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Do you know who Pewdiepie is? How about Charli D'Amelio? If you don't, you need to listen to this episode of Storyteller, where journalist Chris Stoker-Walker takes host Lisa Golden through the evolution of YouTube, the incredible growth of TikTok and what we as creators and consumers of online stories need to consider as we take it all in for free…
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Hating and Loving Paris Hilton | Filmmaker Alexandra Dean
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I have had many conversations about the male gaze, about power, about aging - I hadn’t ever thought to link them to a figure like Paris Hilton. This week on Storyteller, filmmaker Alexandra Dean tells us about making her newest documentary “This Is Paris”. After following the original influencer around the globe for a year, Dean reflects on power, …
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Finding Resilience Facing A Second Wave Of Coronavirus | Former Buddhist Nun Martine Batchelor
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As coronavirus numbers rise steadily in the UK and across Europe, many of us are feeling a heavy weight in our stomachs as we face possible further lockdowns as we approach winter. Six months into a global pandemic, how do we cope with what we have already faced, and find the energy and resilience to keep going? It’s all stories. Stories we tell ou…
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The role of the outsider in journalism | BBC's Andrew Harding
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Award-winning Journalist Andrew Harding has reported on some of the most pivotal moments in history over the past three decades. From the end of Soviet Russia to Al Shabab militants in Somalia, his reporting has borne witness to stories that have changed our modern world. So why would Harding turn his focus in his latest book, to a small town outsi…
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Diving into the world of docs with Open City Documentary Festival | Sindhu Thirumalaisamy & Chloe Trayner
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I love documentaries. They’re the reason I got into journalism, I’ve had the chance to make a few of my own and I think they’re an incredible opportunity for us to see the worlds of others. So I’m so excited to tell you that his week’s episode is a collaboration with the OpenCity Documentary Festival which will be happening online this week. So to …
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