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Whose Story?

2022/11/1
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Rutendo Shackleton 和 Sebastian Echeverry 讨论了故事讲述者对故事的影响，以及人们在讲述故事时如何根据自身感受和对他人感受的预期进行改编。他们认为，缺乏具有代表性的自然故事讲述者，特别是缺乏非洲女性的视角，导致部分群体难以与自然世界产生共鸣。 Paula Kahumbu 强调了非洲故事应该由非洲人自己讲述的重要性，这不仅能够保证故事的真实性和影响力，还能赋予非洲人权力。她通过制作自己的纪录片，更有效地讲述非洲野生动物的故事，并提升非洲观众的参与感和环境保护意识。她认为，要推动非洲的环境保护运动，就必须让当地非洲民众参与其中，而通过电影讲述故事是最有效的工具之一。她的“野生动物战士”项目旨在培养新一代的非洲环保主义者。 Daniel Appleby 介绍了澳大利亚皇霸鹟由于栖息地丧失和种群数量减少，正在忘记自己的歌声，这是一种文化灭绝的形式，对物种的生存构成严重威胁。为了保护皇霸鹟，研究人员正在采取措施帮助它们学习正确的歌声，包括使用录音播放和人工辅导等方法。 Rutendo Shackleton 和 Sebastian Echeverry 还讨论了当人类利用非人类生物进行艺术创作时，创作主体和故事讲述者的界限变得模糊，引发了关于创作归属和合作关系的思考。他们以 Tarun Nair 利用蘑菇创作音乐为例，探讨了这种跨物种合作的可能性和意义。

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The episode starts with a personal anecdote about a mother's embellished story of her daughter's encounter with a snake at a kids' camp. This segues into a discussion about how stories evolve each time they are told, shaped by our emotions and perceptions of the audience.
  • A mother recounts a story about her daughter's encounter with a snake, which differs from the daughter's recollection.
  • The act of storytelling involves reconstruction and adaptation based on emotions and audience expectations.
  • Stories shape our understanding of the world and contribute to self-discovery.

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Rutendo and Sebastian are looking at stories and whether it matters who is telling them. Paula Kahumbu is a renowned conservationist and film-maker in Kenya who wants to see more African stories told by Africans for Africans. “It's really important that Iam empowered to tell my own story. Not just that it's authentic, which therefore will resonate with the audiences ...but also it boosts my ability to have more impact out there.” Through her programme: ‘Wildlife Warriors’, Paula is training, championing and inspiring future generations of Africans to pursue careers in nature.

Storytelling might feel uniquely human, but it plays an important role in the animal world too, with animals learning certain behaviours by copying family members. Just as human language is passed down through generations, animals learn vocalisations by listening to individuals around them. So what happens when that species is dying out? Daniel Appleby, of the Difficult Bird Research Group atCanberra University, describes how the scarcity of the Regent Honeyeater means the bird is forgetting its own song.

And when an artist uses mushrooms to generate music through a synthesiser, who is the composer – the musician or the fungi?

Credits:

The BBC Earth podcast is presented by Sebastian Echeverri and Rutendo Shackleton.

This episode was produced by Rachel Byrne and Geoff Marsh.

The researchers were Seb Masters and Dawood Quereshi.

The Production Manager was Catherine Stringer and the Production Co-ordinator was Gemma Wootton.

Podcast Theme Music was composed by Axel Kacoutié, with mixing and additional sound design by Peregrine Andrews.

The Associate Producer is Cristen Caine and the Executive Producer is Deborah Dudgeon.

Special thanks to:

Daniel Appleby from the Difficult Bird Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Paula Kahumbu from WildlifeDirect. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy) for more information.