Episode 17: Tellable and untellable stories with Nikki Henningham and Wajeehah Aayeshah

In this episode of Narrative Now we speak to Nikki Hennigham and Wajeehah Aayeshah about the ethical aspects and challenges of telling stories that are silenced, traumatic, or socially taboo. The discussion takes its starting point in Nikki and Wajeehah’s respective chapters in our recent book, Narrative Research Now but also goes beyond these chapters to touch on broader aspects that unite their two chapters. One thorny topic is ownership – who can tell whose stories – while another is the temporality of such stories, that is, are stories untellable for eternity or how do changing contexts also change how stories are viewed.