Cheryl Akle

speaker

616 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

Cheryl Akle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

And again, it's the privilege of hearing other people's stories.

And he said when he first found out about books, because where he was from in the Sudan, they told stories, but they were orators.

They were telling stories.

It wasn't reading books and the story was a big part of his life.

But reading wasn't a big part of his life, you know.

Um and he said it wasn't until he was in a refugee camp that he actually found and saw a physical book.

Right.

And he imagined I love this story.

He imagined that the book came about where he would put something in his ears.

And some machine would get the story and transcribe it and make the book.

And then at that moment he decided that that's what he wanted to be.

And that's a young boy in a refugee camp.

And you know, he can't even remember how long he was in that refugee camp, whether it was two years or three I mean, it's terrible.

But anyway, he's now in Australia, which is fantastic.

But he kept working towards that goal.

It's incredible, isn't it?

Because I do think storytellers and writers, once they've got the bug, it's

You've got to do it.

Yeah.

Right.

Showing 461–480 of 616 · page 24 of 31