The Storyteller

I have been sitting through hour-upon-hour of daytime children's television for most of this year and it's making me remember programmes that I used to watch when I was young.

There was one certain series that I had tried to find on YouTube because the opening song and cartoon was something I could only remember from it.

All my memory allowed to me to recall was a man playing a folk song on his guitar. The only words I could recollect were 'I'm the storyteller'.

So, I assumed the programme was titled The Storyteller.

Wrong assumption.

I gave up trying to find it on YouTube and didn't think about it again.

Well, not until this past Friday.

Another one of my nephew's programmes was on and, once again, I thought about The Storyteller song. I decided to have another stab in the dark and Googled some things on my iPhone as I sat in the living room.

I finally found the programme after finding a message board where someone else had been looking for the programme as well.

Storybook International featured a different live-action story each week. The tales were based on folk stories from around the world. I don't remember seeing any of the episodes. As I mentioned previously, all I could remember was the cartoon at the beginning.

After finally finding out the title of the series, I did a YouTube search and found the theme song. My mind is now finally at rest.

I'm the storyteller,
and my stories must be told...