“Tell the story of the day itself, hour by hour.”

Why this question

Where it began, who drove, what the weather did. The car park, the corridor, the phone box or the phone calls — the small details are the ones that go first.

Capturing it in voice

• ·Don't script it. The ums, the tangents, the half-finished sentences — that's what their voice actually sounds like right now.
• ·Thirty seconds is plenty. A short answer you actually record beats a long one you keep meaning to.
• ·Say the date and their age out loud at the start. In ten years that one detail will do half the work.

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