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00:00What do you do? I am a local storyteller so I tell stories through live performances,
00:08interactive shows and I go around doing that and then I also make oral history projects
00:13and I create alternative games and I'm based in Wakefield.
00:17And how important are small businesses? Oh, small businesses are the lifeblood I'd
00:23say of a local community and from my point of view small businesses and the creative
00:27arts even more so because if you can put more creative events within local spaces and
00:33within town centres people start coming because they think something fun is going to be happening
00:38and then that feeds into all the other local businesses and so the creative industries
00:43can really feed into the local economy.
00:45Currently I'm working on a project called Hello Can You Hear Me? and in that project
00:50I've gone around and I've explored and found ten tales for Wakefield District. Some of
00:55them are folk legends that involve giants and boggarts and giant dogs of Upton and things
01:01like that and some of them are more historical like the Battle of Wakefield and how licorice
01:06came to Qantas France. I've taken these ten tales and I've put them onto an old rotary
01:10phone and what you do is you pick up the phone, you dial the number which is in a phone book
01:16and you listen to that part of the story and it's really useful too for young people and
01:22young adults alike to learn more about their local folk legends but also their local history.
01:28There's a little show that accompanies that when I take it to libraries but it's been
01:32all over the district, it's coming to an end as a tour now.