It tells the story of Sutty, a Terran sent to be an Ekumen observer, on the planet Aka, and her experiences political and religious conflicts between a corporatist government and the indigenous resistance, which is centered on the traditions of storytelling, locally referred to as "the Telling" (for which the book is named).
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A series of projects which investigated the telling and retellings of the Bluebeard myth, this included a film made jointly with unthank, a Museum in Stroud Green, A radio play and A live piece at Traquair House.
They claimed to be angered by the help provided by the institute's staff (in translating manuscripts) to a Western writer, Dr. James Laine, who discussed the telling and retelling of stories about Shivaji's parentage and life in his book on narrations of the Shivaji story.
Kathleen McGowan's novel "The Expected One" incorporates the story of the Siege of Montsegur in the telling of Cathar history.
Writing (in Simon Whom he Surnamed Peter) of the feeding of the five thousand that "where the bread came from, no one can say, but it seems unlikely that it was supernaturally multiplied", and of Jesus walking on the water, he takes it that the Fourth Gospel tells of Jesus walking by the sea, the story changing in the telling.
With his knowledge of the history of the family, Adams-Riley greatly impacted the telling of the story in the script phase, working closely with his father, Weston, and his brother Julian Adams, in the writing of the story of their family.