Fable City Radio
Season 1
Riquet of the Tuft
Bluebeard
Hansel & Gretel
The Snow Queen
The Emperor's New Clothes
Rumpelstiltskin
The Tale of Foolio
by Martha Whitehouse
This week’s episode will explore a lesser known French fairytale, Riquet of the Tuft, that explores the value of physical beauty versus the value of intelligence. Can the world’s ugliest man find love with the most beautiful princess who ever lived? Is beauty enough to guarantee happiness? We’ll find out.
This week we take a walk on the dark, very dark, side of fairytales with Bluebeard. A sexist and gory tale, based on some true life historic and even gorier crimes. Even so, the story holds some good lessons when you read between the lines.
It's not easy being a child in a Grimm Brother's fairytale. Hansel and his sister Gretel are starving and their own mother wants them dead and gone. They'll have to take a fateful journey into the forest and fight a fearsome witch to win their fortune and secure their home. We'll discuss some very interesting elements of the story at the end.
Tonight's episode is The Snow Queen originally written by Hans Christian Anderson. Listen to the story and then stick around for a short discussion of the themes
Join Martha for a fun story about an Emperor with an ego that's too big to be contained, and the clever farmer who finds a way to get revenge for the Emperor's cruelty to his family.
Join me for Episode 2 of Fable City Radio. Today's episode is all about Rumpelstiltskin, a classic tale from the Brothers Grimm.
The character of the fool is a fixture in Fairy Tales. Come on a journey with Foolio, an unlikely hero with an unexpected destiny
Join us for a story about the unlikely friendship of three very different friends and find out what happens when they decide to shake up the status quo.