The stories we grow up with mark us. The millennia-old practice has been humanity's ever-present system of relaying morality and wisdom through the community. Lay or religious, light-hearted, fun or dark and haunting, initial storytelling marks our childhood and our formative understanding of the world. On Sounding a Mosaic, James Snowdon and Georgia Cockerell will explore the bright and bleak of some of the world's storytelling traditions.
In the age of the internet, satellite television, international cinema and the rest, is a general homogeneity of beliefs the way we are heading? Why is this important, why should we care? Is storytelling so important that it should be spared the fate of countless practices once deemed necessary only to fall to the wayside in the face of the charging advance of the times? Would it necessarily be a bad thing? In this series of programmes we will be interviewing an international cast of English-speaking students, finding out about where they grew up, their culture and history and the role that storytelling plays in their lives, be it through reading and the spoken-word or through music, dance and art in general.
