Ep 3 - Darker Tales

Host River Wilde

This week on River Reads, LISTENERS BEWARE, as we cover some darker tales and play around with narration.

Reading the longer macabre fairy tales, The Bronze Ring and The Tale of a Youth who Set out to Learn what Fear, both these tale's disturbing and graffic depictions and have received a River Reads' Rating of GGD; for Gross Gore and/or Death. Our favorite kind of stories!

And as promised in episode two, a brief fairy tale, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, will be presented in different narrative fashions. Displaying the influnce narration, and production, can have on the story telling and the listener's understanding of the story.  This tale receives a PGD River Reads' Rating, for Possible Gore and/or Death ("gore” is subjective).

As narrated "live" by Wilde. A storyhour where those of all ages can escape into bedtime (daytime) 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 copyright free material available to you through creative commons. Narrated stories included in this episode are:

1. The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport, Tennessee. Kingsport Press, Inc. 1976 Printing.

2. The Bronze Ring. The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. This edition printed in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press. 2003 Printing.

3. The Tale of a Youth who Set out to Learn what Fear Was. The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. This edition printed in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press. 2003 Printing.