Ep 2- Fairytales & River's Rating System

Host: River Wilde

Episode Two: FairyTales & River Reads' Rating System

In this epidsode, River discusses the history of Fairytales and what is and isn't a Fariy Tale. River dives into the collection Grimms' Fairy Tales, narrating five stories: The Twelve Dancing Princesses; The Three Spinning Fairies; The Cat and Mouse in Partnership; The Golden Bird; and The Queen Bee. Later in the program River discusses their “River Reads Rating System” designed for listeners to better gage their comfort level with possible up coming material. 

River Reads Introduces River Reads Rating System:

• M O N: Maybe Offensive but the Narrator can not quite put their finger on why, it just feels weird.
• Q M: Questionable Message; for those easily offended, or who do not want to engage in a possible involved discussion with your children.
• P G D: Possible Gore and/or Death (“gore” is subjective)
• G G D: Gross Gore and/or Death (River’s favorite kind of stories)

Stories Narrated in Episode Two:

1. The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Grimms’ Fairy Tales By Brother Grimm, Translated By: Mra. E.V. Lucas, Lucy Crane and Marian Edwards. Grosset & Dunlap. Publishers. New York. 1976
2. The Three Spinning Fairies. Grimms’ Fairy Tales By Brother Grimm, Translated By: Mra. E.V. Lucas, Lucy Crane and Marian Edwards. Grosset & Dunlap. Publishers. New York. 1976
3. The Cat and Mouse in Partnership. Grimms’ Fairy Tales By Brother Grimm, Translated By: Mra. E.V. Lucas, Lucy Crane and Marian Edwards. Grosset & Dunlap. Publishers. New York. 1976
4. The Golden Bird. Grimms’ Fairy Tales By Brother Grimm. Translated By: Mra. E.V. Lucas, Lucy Crane and Marian Edwards. Grosset & Dunlap. Publishers. New York. 1976
5. The Queen Bee. Grimms’ Fairy Tales By Brother Grimm, Translated By: Mra. E.V. Lucas, Lucy Crane and Marian Edwards. Grosset & Dunlap. Publishers. New York. 1976

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.