What's the Story, Ashley Storrie? 

'What's the Story, Ashley Storrie?' 

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What's the Story, Ashley Storrie?

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The story of Ashley, a tall comedian who loves William Shatner and hates textured fabrics.

Growing up surrounded by gangsters and a dysfunctional family, this is the story of Ashley - a tall comedian who loves William Shatner and hates textured fabrics.

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What's the Story, Ashley Storrie?: Making Friends and Growing Up Funny

Making Friends and Growing Up Funny

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Ashley charts the ups and downs of friendship while being an undiagnosed autist.

Ashley documents the ups and downs of trying to make friends while being ‘weird’, and shares the funny story of how she went from being raised around gangsters to comedians.

Relating more to wizards, aliens and ghosts since childhood, Ashley has developed her own unique ways of seemingly 'fitting in’, despite the confusing world of human relationships.

After a childhood full of failed attempts, Ashley spent years obsessing over how to solve the problem of making friends in the only way she knows how - using strategies and methodical research within her peer group.

Now she shares her findings, as well as the epiphany she reached at the end of her study.

And with a Scottish working-class female comic for a mother, she was destined to grow up ‘funny’.  Being put to work selling her mum’s show every year during the Edinburgh Fringe resulted in some challenging conversations with members of the public, and surprising encounters with famous faces. If only she’d known the difference between the two at the time.

A juicy peek behind the scenes, from the perspective of a child with autism, forced to share her mum – and her bunk bed – with the world of comedy.

With Rosco McClelland
Produced by Julia Sutherland
Sound Design by Sean Kerwin
A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4

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