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If storytelling is as natural to humans as breathing, why can’t we avoid telling the same story over and over again? Helping Bridget Kendall tell this tale are award-winning drama producer John Yorke, who explains why a nine-year-old could storyline a Hollywood film; neuroscientist Emile Bruneau, whose cutting edge research on how narratives can trigger empathy and Afghan writer Qais Akbar Omar, who says that when you have nothing else left, stories can sustain you. (Image: A storyteller reads from a book, surrounded by listeners. Credit: Brown/Fox Photos/Getty Images)