Entrepreneur, digital pioneer and Baroness Martha Lane Fox joins Story Islands for Episode 4 — a conversation about technology, opportunity, resilience, and how we build a more inclusive digital society.

This episode is also available as an interactive podcast in Stornaway, where you can choose which Story Island to visit in any order.

🎥 Watch the interactive Story Islands version here:https://player.stornaway.io/embed/c4ec05c4

Martha shares her five Story Islands — My mum’s hotline for mums, Reading William Godwin, Learning about the internet at 21, Learning to walk again, and Reading War & Peace — as we explore how environments shape us, how resilience is built, and why leadership must create hope.

We talk about:

• Nature vs nurture, justice, and early idealism

• Being one of the only women in the early tech sector

• Learning to walk again after a life-changing accident

• Finding light and possibility in difficult times

🎵 Featured songJudy Garland — Get Happy https://open.spotify.com/track/1wptnduBZppNvRHzR4SHI8

About Stornaway.io

Stornaway is the way to build interactive experiences that are smart and personalised – whether you’re in marketing, learning, communications or content production. Stornaway’s modular “Story Map” flowchart editor is an interactive video builder that enables you to:

• Guide your audiences down different routes with personalised content

• Track engagement and insight, without tech headaches

• Get up and running in minutes

Find out more and get started now at www.stornaway.io

Chapters

00:00 – Story Islands intro

03:21 – Meet Martha Lane Fox

04:23 – The five Story Islands explained

05:07 – Island 2: Reading William Godwin

10:18 – Island 1: My mum’s hotline for mums

14:27 – Island 3: Learning about the internet at

21 23:52 – Island 4: Learning to walk again

30:13 – Island 5: Reading War & Peace

39:55 – Featured song: Judy Garland – Get Happy

Writer, producer and disability innovator Rebecca Atkinson joins Story Islands for Episode 3 — a conversation about creativity, childhood, representation, and why some of the most extraordinary journeys begin when life stops being linear.

🏆 Mixmups recognition: Rebecca’s preschool series Mixmups has been selected as a finalist for the Prix Jeunesse International 2026 in the Fiction (Up to 6 years) category for the episode “The Hurry Up Sandwich,” showcasing Ultra Access® technology and over 4,000 ways to watch.

🎥 Watch the interactive episode here: https://player.stornaway.io/embed/e46e9c5d

This episode is also available as an interactive podcast in Stornaway, where you can choose which Story Island to visit in any order.

🎥 Watch the interactive Story Islands version at: https://player.stornaway.io/embed/6bd0551c

Rebecca shares her five Story Islands — Blue Peter, My Step-sister, My Diagnosis at 17, Birkbeck University, and Tinkerbell — as we explore how disability and imagination collide to reshape culture.

We talk about:

• Growing up without seeing yourself represented

• How Toy Like Me sparked a global movement

• Creating Mixmups and Ultra Access storytelling

• Creativity as building worlds where everyone belongs

🎵 Featured songDire Straits — Brothers in Armshttps://open.spotify.com/track/5t3ClpjiJUTCHKODTPrW8i

About Stornaway.io

Stornaway is the way to build interactive experiences that are smart and personalised – whether you’re in marketing, learning, communications or content production. Stornaway’s modular “Story Map” flowchart editor is an interactive video builder that enables you to:

• Guide your audiences down different routes with personalised content

• Track engagement and insight, without tech headaches

• Get up and running in minutes

Find out more and get started now at www.stornaway.io

Journalist, documentary-maker and broadcaster David Dimbleby joins Story Islands for our second episode of Season Two — a conversation about curiosity, questioning, public trust and why asking the right questions has never mattered more.

This episode is also available as an interactive podcast in Stornaway, where you can choose which Story Island to visit in any order.

🎥 Watch the interactive Story Islands version at:⁠ https://player.stornaway.io/embed/1d99a292⁠

From BBC election nights and Question Time to long-form documentaries on democracy, monarchy and power, David Dimbleby’s career spans more than five decades of British broadcasting. In this episode, he shares seven Story Islands — moments, places and turning points rather than neat chapters — as we explore how empathy, listening and discomfort shape meaningful journalism and storytelling.

Moving non-linearly through family, live debate, political controversy and long-form reporting, the conversation reflects on what it means to stay curious in a world saturated with certainty, data and noise.

We talk about:

• Why good interviewing is about listening, not performance
• How empathy helps uncover uncomfortable truths
• What live audiences bring to political debate
• How trust between media and the public has shifted
• Why curiosity — even about unpopular ideas — still matters

🎵 Featured song

Béla Bartók — Unaccompanied Violin Sonata⁠

https://open.spotify.com/track/3KWq1RIXAGe8avaGBwBngr?si=6b2b6629e32f4065⁠

About Stornaway.io

Stornaway is the way to build interactive experiences that are smart and personalised – whether you’re in marketing, learning, communications or content production. Stornaway’s modular “Story Map” flowchart editor is an interactive video builder that enables you to:

• Guide your audiences down different routes with personalised content
• Track engagement and insight, without tech headaches
• Get up and running in minutes

Find out more and get started now at ⁠www.stornaway.io⁠

Writer, broadcaster and former CEO Margaret Heffernan joins Story Islands for our Season Two opener — a conversation about curiosity, uncertainty, collaboration and why artists may be better equipped than executives to lead us through a volatile world.

This episode is also available as an interactive podcast in Stornaway, where you can choose which Story Island to visit in any order.

🎥 Watch the interactive Story Islands version at:

⁠https://player.stornaway.io/embed/0f9bf0e1

From BBC radio to Silicon Valley boardrooms, Margaret’s career has crossed media, technology, theatre and business. In this episode she shares her five Story Islands — Home, Business, Creative, Social and Desert — as we explore how imagination, solitude and non-linear thinking shape everything from leadership to innovation.

We talk about:

• Why modern organisations are stuck in the “status quo trap”

• How walking, wandering and “deep hanging out” fuel creativity

• What artists understand about risk that businesses don’t

• Why curiosity is more important than efficiency

• How collaboration is built on trust before results

🎵 Featured songNick Bicât — The Greeks (from The Greeks)
https://open.spotify.com/track/4k9zrWf9AExRYK6VatMIXi

About Stornaway.io

Stornaway is the way to build interactive experiences that are smart and personalised – whether you’re in marketing, learning, communications or content production. Stornaway’s modular “Story Map” flowchart editor is an interactive video builder that enables you to:

• Guide your audiences down different routes with personalised content
• Track engagement and insight, without tech headaches
• Get up and running in minutes

Find out more and get started now at www.stornaway.io

In this final episode in the series, founders Kate, Ru and CMO Natasha Mckenzie discuss the last year of innovation in Adaptive Media. The technology and trends behind the surge in adoption and the potential for the media makers of the future.

In this episode, we talk to Nick Handley about his interactive trade show experience, made with tech agency, CyberTheory, and how interactive stands at trade shows can result in more leads and more engagement when promoting products and services.

In this episode, we talk to Paul Brennan about his interactive behavioural simulations for Virgin Media O2, teaching their field engineers and sales representatives about interacting with real life customers, and how a blend of interactive and traditional training can lead to game changing results.

In this episode, we talk to Paul Mallaghan from Tilt about their drink drive interactive awareness campaign they made for drinks company, Diageo. We also speak to Paul about how interactive campaigns can encourage behaviour and attitude change surrounding important social issues.