Episode 1: Documenting

General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues

The narration in this episode is based around this medium piece.

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A document is a piece of evidence; a record; a proof of something. By this definition, we are all living documents, documents that may or may not be lost to history. What parts of us are recorded? What parts of us are seen?

We record our lives and the lives of others, using our memory and our technology. We choose what to record, how we record it and how we present it, sometimes consciously and sometimes subconsciously. We don’t always fully choose because we can only work with what we have; sometimes our choices are more restricted than others. We are all documents; we are all documenters; we are all Documentary Makers.

Spark London/Spark True Stories

The Restart Project (the social enterprise I make podcasts for)

My dad’s filmography

My dad’s first film

Artwork by my brother Tony Pickering: http://www.pick-art.co.uk/