There's nothing childish or twee about this idea of lesson story. We may at times think that our Western, modernist culture has abandoned narrative, has relegated story-times to the nursery. Nothing could be further from the truth. Culturally, we are besotted by stories.We are obsessed with television soaps and crime dramas. We perceive politics and world events in terms of stories.We make up stories about real people to makethem available to us.This last a key thought. A famous footballer and his tuneless wife become accessible to us because of the stories which are created about them.