This weeks (April 1st, 2023 @ 10am) on River Reads, Episode 6 - Cocks, Peas & Princesses, host narrator River Wilde reads classics from the story collection, "The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen," translation by Jean Hersholt, whose English translations were first published in 1942. This week River Rambles about misogyny and sexuality and narrates, in no particular order: 1) The Princess and the Pea; 2) The Farmyard Cock and the Weather Cock; 3) The Swineherd; 4) The Old Man is Always Right; 5) The Emperor’s New Clothes; and 6) Five Peas in a Pod.
This week on River Reads, Wilde narrates:
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The Princess and the Pea, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Ed Noel Daniel. TASCHEN. Cologne, Germany, 2013.
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The Farmyard Cock and the Weather Cock, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Ed Noel Daniel. TASCHEN. Cologne, Germany, 2013.
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The Swineherd, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Ed Noel Daniel. TASCHEN. Cologne, Germany, 2013.
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The Old Man is Always Right, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Ed Noel Daniel. TASCHEN. Cologne, Germany, 2013.
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The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Ed Noel Daniel. TASCHEN. Cologne, Germany, 2013.
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Five Peas in a Pod, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Ed Noel Daniel. TASCHEN. Cologne, Germany, 2013.
River Reads is a program where those of all ages can escape into bedtime stories and fairy tales; both new and old, but mostly old and at times macabre, or silly, or even perhaps a little confusing as written in old english, and then there’s those stories whose premises or message has perhaps not aged as well over the years, let’s face it you can’t be too picky when you’re dependent upon material available to you through creative commons.