In 'The Microphone in the Middle', students share their thoughts on Halloween: Should we keep the original meaning of Halloween alive, move on, or are we all a little animalistic on Halloween anyway? In Simon Dictates, Simon Richard Tate offers some perspective on heating bills, heating bracelets, and, because Norfolk would make a headline out of puppies, a puppy in Norfolk that's gotten a lot of attention. Then, Holly J. McDede walks through a church that...like many churches in Norfolk...have stopped being churches and have become something totally different. Finally, in The News: For Children, the Norfolk Storytelling Project Team tells you the tale of Norfolk's recent decision to spend a whole lot of pounds on Christmas lights.

The Norfolk Storytelling Project Episode 3

The Norfolk Storytelling Project's mission is to make a quaint city in the East of England slightly louder. Listen! We're telling the stories of Norfolk's politics, arts, and culture. 

This week on the Norfolk Storytelling Project...ARM WRESTLING. Yuki Sakurai brings arm wrestling to Norfolk. Meanwhile, The Microphone in the Middle explores: Do you remember (remember) the 5th of November? Or has gun powder and treason been forgot, or lost their meaning? Then, Simon DickTates the news: British veterans on trial, new measures at UEA that could limit students' ability to protest, or not, and a reading the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards.

The Norfolk Storytelling Episode 4

Everyone knows English! Basically. Right? In this next episode, 'Speak to Me: In my Language, or Your's" Peter Thorn explores the drop in students studying language at university, and how the University of East Anglia re-interpreting its language department as a result.

In between one student's gateway to trance music, and in between Simon Tate's thoughts on the morality of eye operations performed on Norfolk birds, the Norfolk Storytelling Project brings you the stories of a humble little city in the East of England.

Norfolk Storytelling Project Episode 6

This weeks' episode of the Norfolk Storytelling Project explores the question, "Where are we?" or more specifically, "What...is Norwich, anyway?" Then, in 'Writers write and teachers strike' two writers in Norwich attempt to write a  novels in a month....while teachers attempt to get higher pay rises on the streets in a second day of action.  Simon Richard Tate gives perspective on oompa loompas and squirrels in 'Simon Dictates.'

Norfolk Storytelling Project Episode 8

In this week's episode of the Norfolk Storytelling Project, the Norfolk Storytellers ask themselves, "Holy jesus. Where am I?" The answer: Norfolk. But what IS this place? In Simon Richard Tate's Simon Dictates, Simon give his thoughts on efforts to preserve red squirrels and whether or not drunken oompa loompas are a Norfolk problem. Finally, our feature stories: Two students at the University of East Anglia try to write novels IN ONE MONTH...while staff at the university protest what they feel are unfair offers of 1% pay increases. Listen! This is all about Norfolk.

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