British Ambassador to Morocco Simon Martin stole the show on Thursday in the city of Marrakech at the International Storytelling Festival. His performance revolved around the ‘love story’ between British politician Winston Churchill and the Moroccan ‘Red City’. Dressed in a black frock coat and sporting a top hat – just like Churchill in the 1940s – the ambassador stepped into the ‘Helqa’ (the circle of listeners that gather around the storyteller) in Jemaa el-Fnaa Square. Martin was accompanied by a Moroccan translator who was wearing a red and white traditional outfit. “I am not a storytelle…