Ep 36 - Snakes, Bear, Fish, & a Gingerbread Man

(February 28th, 2026, Airing)

We're Back!! This week on River Reads, Episode 36- Snakes, Bear, Fish, & a Gingerbread Man, features five tale from the collection Fairy Tales as retold by Bridget Hadaway, called The Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks & the Three Bears, The Snake Prince, The Knights of the Fish and Cannetella & the Wizard.

Remember to Tune in weekly for our Gender Blender segment, where we flip and play with traditional gender roles, reimagining classic fairy tales. Only revealing which tale is our Gender Blender tale at the end of each episode. 

River Reads is not a kids show but not not a kids show and may contain content suitable for a mature audience; listener discretion is advised.

River Reads is a program where those of all ages can escape into fairy tales and strange stories; 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 the host fumbles words, and then there’s those stories whose premises have perhaps not aged as well over the years. Let’s face it you can’t be too picky when you’re dependent upon free material available to you through creative commons. 

This episode's fairy tales are: 

1. The Gingerbread Man. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

2. Goldilocks & the Three Bears. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

3. The Snake Prince. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

4. Cannetella & the Wizard. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

5. The Knights of the Fish. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

River Reads has won Best Podcast in the Small Market category at 2023 Broadcast Dialogue's Canadian Radio Award