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Everyone Has A Story. What's Yours?
My Story is a new BBC project to gather the Nation’s true stories and publish them online. It launches in early September 2009 on The One Show and the BBC wants to hear from everyone. Next year, 15 of the best stories will be made into TV programmes for BBC One.
My Story will be led by well-known and trusted faces from the BBC, including Kirsty Young and George Aligiah. They will encourage the Nation to take part and will present some of the best stories as TV programmes on BBC One. Each week the presenters will select a winning story to be turned into a book, written by a ghost writer, which will be in shops the day after the show.
Talent: Kirsty Young, George Alagiah, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ronan Keating and Christine Blakely. (all tbc.)
My Story is a storytelling and creative writing project: people will be asked to tell a true, personal story and send into the My Story website, to share with others. True stories have inspired some of the most successful books and films of all time by offering the chance to follow in their footsteps, My Story hopes to inspire the whole Nation with reading and writing.
The My Story website will gather and show stories from members of the public and feature celebrities own real life stories, along with inspiring famous true stories. The site will feature videos and interactive tools to help people plan and structure their stories as well as tips on writing styles and skills. In addition, short videos presented by Nina Wadia, from Eastenders and Lenny Henry (returning to the part of Deakus) will show audiences how easy it is to get started and explore simple ideas to get the creative juices flowing. There are also cameo appearances from Peter Duncan, Tara Palmer Tomkinson, Stephen K Amos and Roland Rivron.
The website also features ideas for activities and workshop for practitioners in the formal and informal learning sector. Downloadable documents can be found on the partners area of the site at bbc.co.uk/rawpartners
My Story roadshows will go to six cities across the UK (Glasgow, London, Blackpool, Rotherham, Newport and Middlesbrough) in September and October targeting harder to inspire audiences to tell their stories: These events will bring together many parts of the BBC to entertain and inspire people to write their stories. BBC Video Nation, Your Game, regional BBC News and Radio and local organisations such as Libraries, Museums and Archives will offer hand-on workshops to help people plan and write their stories.
A free BBC My Story magazine filled with inspiring real-life stories, top tips and advice on how to write your own story will be available to order from the My Story website.
Stories should be no longer than 1500 words and accompanied by a short description. Stories should be sent online and received by 16th December 2009.
Stories will be accepted by post but these cannot be published online.
The My Story competition is open from early September to 16th December 09.
