I’ve been keeping a secret… I’m going to be on the goggle box! A few weeks ago I was approached by RDF Television and asked if I would like to be in a new programme for Channel 4. WHAT. It seems my incessant ramblings on the internet got me noticed somewhere?! It was incredibly bizarre, […]
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I recently entered a competition by Beth Made This. I had a good feeling about it as soon as I entered, which was slightly ridiculous as I have only ever won one competition before. So I tried not to pay too much attention to it. (I do have a habit of misplaced optimism though; whenever I […]
Cornucopia: A symbol of plenty consisting of a goat’s horn overflowing with flowers, fruit, and corn. (This definition is according to ‘the internet’, so not guaranteed to be entirely correct, but I really like it. Although with the goat’s horn it seems perhaps a bit pagan?!) I’m not sure if it was just me who […]
Before last week, I’d never heard of Yorkshire Day. What is it? What’s the point? If you’re as lost as me, Yorkshire Telly’s Matt Humphreys gives you a bit of a background in his blogpost. There’s quite a lot of cynicism about the day – it’s a marketing ploy, it reinforces stereotypes etc. But that’s […]
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Feature: Yorkshire Telly goes LIVE!
I was lucky enough to be part of the audience for the pilot of Yorkshire Telly LIVE! I had no idea what to expect, but Matt Humphreys’ blog post helped to put in context what the project was trying to achieve. This pilot show was an experiment, and a very exciting experiment at that! Mr […]
Storytelling is verbally sharing a narrative, whether true or imagined. It began as an oral tradition; stories were committed to memory and passed down through the generations, until the written word came along and captured them in a new form. Storytelling is essentially what happens at Bettakultcha, although it wasn’t necessarily what I was expecting. […]