The conversations: Where we place ourselves

Most of us try to understand our lives while we’re still living them. But understanding rarely arrives in the moment. It arrives later; when time gives us enough distance to see the story differently.

The pilot season of Where We Place Ourselves is an invitation to slow down and reconsider the stories we tell about our lives. Each episode is a quiet conversation about memory, identity, and perspective. A moment where someone looks back at a small part of their life and notices that time has changed how they understand it.

Across five conversations, guests reflect on memory, perception, identity, and the ways our understanding of ourselves evolves over time. I hope you enjoy them. And if you do, I would ask that you follow the show so that it may reach those who need it.

ON the archeology of our stories with Beverley Glick

A conversation about memory, the stories we tell ourselves about our past, and what happens when we realise those stories might not be the only way to understand our lives.

ON photography and distance with Stephanie Belton

Photographer Stephanie Belton reflects on how distance changes what we see. In images, in memories, and in the lives we’re living from the inside.

ON the stories we live inside with Catherine de Vries

A thoughtful exploration of why humans create narratives to make sense of uncertainty and how those narratives quietly shape our sense of belonging.

ON remembering with Julianne Burke

Julianne Burke shares how recipes, kitchens, and inherited traditions can preserve memory and identity in ways that history books sometimes cannot.

ON exploration through writing with Alison Jones

A conversation about exploratory writing as a way of creating distance from experience so meaning can emerge over time.

Coming soon: ON commitment and impact with James Walker, ON storytelling from within with Robin Bayley, ON the diamond edge with Sarah Lloyd Hughes.