Let me give you an example. I often tell on stage the story of how I got into Oxford University against all the odds, I feel having been to a big state school in Sheffield, and not necessarily had all the advantages that some people had when they were applying that from my very encouraging family, of course, I must mention them. So I say about getting in and all the different things that happen. But there's a point at which I really slow this down so that the audience understands what this means to me. I say it was my third day of interviews, and it wasn't going well. I was tired, I was hungry.

I was looking disheveled. And I knew that I wasn't going to get in unless I did something differently. So I saw this tutor that was going to interview me, and instead of doing what I would normally do, when To hang back and to let him take the lead, I decided to speak to him like he was an adult. I turned around him and I said, you must be starving. Do you want to take a break from spending your day with 18 year olds must be quite boring for you. And he was astonished, because I figured him as an adult.

He's very professional. He declined the offer of lunch, and we had the interview as normal. But I got in. And I know, I think that it was because I'd spoken to as an adult, that he was willing to give me a chance. So there's an example of where I tell that story. And you can see how I just start to slow time down, I get very specific about where we are.

And I even quote myself as well. So I start to go into speech. So look at your stories for what kind of sensory information is in there, I was hungry, I was tired. This is how we're looking, what kind of things are said and how might you just slow tone down a little bit. Tell some of that detail before you speed back up and make a point about what you're saying or move on to doing another story or some more facts, more logic to play about with time and with the senses. And I think you'll find that that helps you to create something that is more engaging.