Rib Davis

Biography

Rib Davis is passionate about the climate crisis. He has chaired the Environment and Climate Change Special Interest Group of the Oral History Society (UK), running seminars and establishing the International Oral History of the Transition Movement. Since the 1970s, he has worked on oral history projects ranging from books to exhibitions, websites, and plays, cooperating with Age Exchange, Living Archive, The Lightbox, and the BBC. He has also trained others, mainly on behalf of the British Library and the Oral History Society, in 7 different countries. He is author of Writing Dialogue for Scripts; his BBC Radio work includes the series Unwritten Law (dramatizations of legal cases which have led to changes in case law) and scripts for television include No Further Cause for Concern, about a prison riot and its aftermath. His stage work includes 13 large-scale community documentary dramas based on oral histories. In 2018–2019, Rib Davis was Goodison Fellow at National Life Stories, leading to his writing the play Safe, which took as its starting point the Holocaust testimonies held at the British Library.