Telling stories is a defining characteristic of being human. We are the only animals that tell each other stories and we do so across cultures and time periods. Libraries have long recognized the power of stories and sought to collect and circulate them in the form of books and other documents. The goal of Storytelling with Desert Island Discs is to utilize the format of the long-running BBC radio program and the techniques of DIY digital storytelling to build an oral history archive that preserves the life stories and musical journeys of the library’s community members.
Here is a link to my Inspiration Report on Storytelling with Desert Island Discs. All feedback welcome!
@arthurkolat, I absolutely LOVE this! I’m already a huge proponent of libraries helping people to share their stories, but adding music to this just makes it more powerful. I believe in the power of music to bring people together, no matter their background, so of course storytelling that incorporates it will be an even stronger community-builder.
@terribeth Thanks! It’s a really good radio program — very famous and beloved in Britain. And it operates on an elegantly simple idea: music plays a meaningful role is everyone’s life and that’s the basis for a bottomless well of unique and interesting stories. Cheers!