Having chosen his subject, he had to decide which character would tell the story.

If a character in a show tells a lie, the set will shake its head.

A mysterious character who seems to know more than he tells.

In some episodes, Brown and other actors play various characters to tell the story of the food.

Ten days is the time period in which the characters of the frame story tell their tales.

So perhaps his private character tells us little of his public life.

Every quarter of an hour, the magic clock comes to life and its characters tell us the story.

The characters, based on interviews, tell stories about things that have been lost.

Other characters in the book tell their own stories and they, too, are continually interrupted.

In this case, however, we know he is legendary only because other characters tell us so.