I help people fall in love with the places they visit. 
For nearly 20 years, I've been conceiving and writing long-form audio guides, multimedia tours and interpretive texts for museums, galleries, heritage sites and cultural organisations.
I write what people hear when they gaze up at the Taj Mahal, explore Edinburgh Castle, or pass through the  doorways of 2,000-year-old Nabatean tombs.
I’ve made the complex geological history of the Earth accessible at the Abu Dhabi Museum of Natural History, encouraged kids to teach their grown-ups about art at the National Gallery in London and guided people’s careful footsteps across the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland. 
Visitors can stand in front of something amazing and feel... nothing. Not because it’s boring, but because nobody helped them connect with it.
A shopping list of facts and figures that sounds like it was written by committee (or increasingly, by AI) may provide a surface - level of understanding – but where’s the wonder, the excitement, the fun?  
My job is to be the friend who leans over and says, "Okay, but look at THIS."
I write interpretation for visitors that:
Respects their intelligence while making complex narratives accessible.
Encourages them to engage with each other and their surroundings.
Makes them gasp in awe, laugh out loud, tremble with excitement. 
Immerses them in time and place.
I don’t write info-dumps. I write stories.
A human writer can navigate delicate cultural sensitivities with clarity and respect, understand what an object or place means on an emotional level and convey that to a diverse audience, or make a 7-year-old laugh while learning about a Renaissance painting. 
I work with major production companies like Antenna International, Imagineear, Bloomberg Connects, Acoustiguide, Orpheo, Nous Digital, and Smartify. 
I’m trusted by Historic England, Historic Scotland, the National Trust, and the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. 

Simon Talbot Interpretive Writer

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