StoryCo

Andrew Lownie spent thirty years as one of Britain's leading literary agents — establishment, discreet, well-connected. Then he started digging into the royal family, and he kept going. His new biography of the former Prince Andrew, Entitled , was called "among the most lurid ever published about a senior royal." Simon & Schuster's US imprint dropped it weeks before publicati...

Charlie Webster was in a coma on life support for two weeks. She had malaria and multiple organ failure. Doctors gave her 24 hours. She survived, and the story of what came before and after is unlike anything you have heard. Charlie tells James Kirkham how a TV executive told her the boxing world was not ready for women. Two years later she became the first woman in the world to host a heavyweight...

A five-year-old in the back of a car repeats a phrase he heard at school without understanding what it means. His father explodes with a fury he has never shown before. The incident is never mentioned again — until John Yorke is 22 years old and finally asks. What his father tells him on that Christmas Day walk reshapes everything John later writes about the power of story, and why that power carr...

Story has never mattered more. We're drowning in noise, falsehoods, and feeds that never end and say nothing. Right in the middle of that chaos, truth is at a premium — and the people who can tell it are the ones who cut through. StoryCo is the podcast about the business of storytelling, across every discipline, every industry, every culture there is. Hosted by James Kirkham — entrepreneur, brand...