I work as a volunteer writer at an annual storytelling festival in North Yorkshire.

If you can TELL a good story (fictional; true anecdote; or re-telling of a favourite story) in under 10 minutes, you can win £50 and get the chance to tell it at the festival!

www.settlestories.org.uk/competitions

or check out our blog at http://settlestories.blogspot.co.uk/

closing date - 25th September.

Oh, I'm sure I've heard this festival broadcast on Radio 4 with a celebrity telling an anecdote - a comedian?

Hi Jem

Yes, we were featured on Radio 4 recently, on the 'Today' programme, with John Humphrys interviewing Bill Mitchell about the WR Mitchell Archives (oral history archive of the lives of Dales men and women), which is managed by Settle Stories. Bill is one of life's natural comics, with a vast memory of the Dales people he has interviewed over the years, and the tales they told him.

On the programme Bill 'recalled' an apocryphal prudent Yorkshire woman who, at first denying her dying husband a candle by his bedside, relented on condition he blew it out before he expired!

Colin