Story Islands Podcast

As our fourth episode of Story Islands (Season 2), we welcome Baroness Martha Lane Fox — entrepreneur, co-founder of lastminute.com, and one of the UK’s most influential voices on responsible technology and digital inclusion. This podcast episode is also available as an interactive experience in Stornaway, where you can choose which Story Island to visit in any order. 🎥 Watch the interactive podc...

As our third episode of Story Islands (Season 2), we welcome writer, producer and disability innovator Rebecca Atkinson - a conversation about imagination, representation, creativity, and building new worlds when life refuses to follow a straight line. 🏆 Mixmups recognition: Rebecca’s series Mixmups has been selected as a finalist for the Prix Jeunesse International 2026 in the Fiction category f...

As our very special second episode of Story Islands (season 2), we welcome one of the most recognisable voices in British broadcasting — journalist, documentary-maker and broadcaster David Dimbleby. A conversation about curiosity, questioning, public trust and why asking the right questions has never mattered more — especially in a world saturated with certainty, data and noise. This episode is al...

As our inaugural episode, we welcome our very first guest to Story Islands (season 2): writer, broadcaster and former CEO Margaret Heffernan — a conversation about curiosity, uncertainty, collaboration and why artists may be better equipped than executives to lead us through a volatile world. This episode is also available as an interactive podcast in Stornaway, where you can choose which Story Is...

In this final episode in the series, founders Kate, Ru and CMO Natasha Mckenzie discuss the last year of innovation in Adaptive Media.  The technology and trends behind the surge in adoption and the potential for the media makers of the future.

In this episode, we talk to Nick Handley about his interactive trade show experience, made with tech agency, CyberTheory, and how interactive stands at trade shows can result in more leads and more engagement when promoting products and services.

In this episode, we talk to Paul Brennan about his interactive behavioural simulations for Virgin Media O2, teaching their field engineers and sales representatives about interacting with real life customers, and how a blend of interactive and traditional training can lead to game changing results.

In this episode, we talk to Paul Mallaghan from Tilt about their drink drive interactive awareness campaign they made for drinks company, Diageo. We also speak to Paul about how interactive campaigns can encourage behaviour and attitude change surrounding important social issues.

In this episode we talk to BAFTA and Webbie award winning director Martin Percy about his interactive training films, starting with Lifesaver - his powerful CPR campaign that has literally saved lives - along with the power of giving your audience agency and what he sees as the future of combining digital interactive experiences with in person training.

In this episode, we talk in-depth with Living Security's Director of Content Operations, Morgan Obregon, about their interactive past, present and future, as well as Living Security's latest production, Masquerade, an interactive, murder-mystery-style adventure.

In this episode we talk to BAFTA Cymru Award Nominee, Paul Rashcid, about the different stages of producing and delivering an interactive film, notably for Paul’s live viewings of these experiences. We also dive into the power of easter eggs in branching narratives, and where the merging of video games and films could take us.

Co-Founders Kate Dimbleby and Ru Howe speak with their CMO, Natasha McKenzie, about the origins of Stornaway.io and the world of interactive and immersive media.   This episode was recorded as an interactive video blog.  To see the full video version go to www.stornaway.io