About StoryCo
Extraordinary stories, told by the people who lived, or found them.
StoryCo is a weekly long form podcast, on YouTube, Spotify and Apple, in which James Kirkham talks at length with investigative reporters, historians, authors and filmmakers about the stories they lived through or uncovered.
Who makes it
- Host
- James Kirkham
- Producer
- Nelly Batt
- Executive producer
- Jago Lee
- Recorded at
- TYX Studios, King's Cross
- Theme
- Doubt Point
James Kirkham, host
James Kirkham presents StoryCo, and comments on social media, technology and culture for television and radio. He has appeared on Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC Radio 5 Live and 6 Music, and was a regular on TalkTV's Trisha Goddard show. He also writes Inked In & Iconic, a newsletter on culture and business.
He founded ICONIC. Before that he co-founded Holler, which Publicis acquired, and led social and mobile globally at Leo Burnett. He was Chief Business Officer at COPA90 and then at Defected Records. His campaign for Skins was one of the first to market a television series through social media.
Jago Lee, executive producer
Jago is a multi award winning producer with 25 years' experience in British and American television. After spells as head of development at Tiger Aspect, Blink Films and Optomen, he set up Nerd in 2009 with Charlie Parsons, creator of Survivor, and John Farrar. Nerd became known for innovative factual entertainment formats and hard-hitting documentaries, including the Grierson-commended series Inside the Gangsters' Code, Find My First Love (A&E and MTV UK) and the feature documentary 12 Year Old Lifer (Channel 4 and A&E). Since 2016 he has been a creative lead at studios including Blue Ant, Zinc and Sky, with credits including How to Rob a Bank (Vice and Channel 4), Orangutan Jungle School (Channel 4 and Love Nature), The Sidemen Show (YouTube Originals) and Edge of Reality (Audible). He founded Telltale Industries in 2021 to work in the shared ground between premium audio and television.
Nelly Batt, producer
Nelly produces and edits StoryCo. She graduated from City, University of London in 2026 with the Nick Lewis Memorial Prize for the top academic result in her journalism cohort, and an award for her final-year audio documentary. She has worked in documentary research and local radio, and writes for Nonchalant Magazine.
StoryCo is a Telltale Industries and ICONIC co-production.
