The Calm app has included one of the stories from Richard Hamilton’s The Last Storytellers in the app. Richard recorded the story specially and users of the app can now listen to The Red Lantern.
When I recorded The Last Storytellers for Calm’s Sleep Stories collection, the producers asked me to read it quite softly and slowly – as befits a bedtime story. I was surprised by how much richer and more intimate it sounded when read in this manner. In the past when I had read it aloud it I had always tried to project it like an actor, but this experience was completely new to me. It was a kind of revelation that showed me how powerful stories can be when the reader pauses and allows the suspense to build up. It was a great pleasure to record the story and I hope that listeners will enjoy it too, as countless others must have done for centuries in Marrakech’s magical square, the Jemaa el Fnaa.
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