Decades of You

A conversational recipe for helping a senior you love to tell the stories of their life.

Several years ago I worked on a stage adaptation of Maurice Shadbolt’s book Voices of Gallipoli.

It’s an oral history of several World War I veterans. Shadbolt interviewed them when they were in their seventies. He sat them down with a voice recorder and let them talk. Individual stories are only only a few pages long. They bubble with visceral detail. …