"Storytelling has always been the poor relation. You’ve Irish music, singing and dancing, but storytelling was never on the national airwaves have never done anything for it. Media in general has rarely done anything for it. Anytime I go abroad, I make that point absolutely clear, that if storytelling survives in this country, it’s by accident: I’m not in the least sentimental about that point."
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