What great eyes you have. Do you know the dark origins of the happy fairy tales you grew up with?
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Kate Forsyth on Drive - ABC Sydney - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge
The Uses of Enchantment — Just because we’ve all grown up and aren’t supposed to believe in fairy tales and magic doesn’t mean we don’t still need them.
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SFFaudio - The SFFaudio Podcast #122
The SFFaudio Podcast #122 – a complete and unabridged reading of Beyond The Door by Philip K. Dick, followed by a discussion of it with Scott, Jesse, Tamahome and Gregg Margarite (who narrated the story).
Talked about on today’s show: Beyond The Door is a story about a very angry bird, is it a puff-piece or a potboiler?, Rod Serling, Twilight Zone, “My name is Talky Tina and I’m going to kill you.”, Living Doll, Telly Savalas, Clown Without Pity (from Treehouse of Horror III), Night Gallery, Chucky, were clowns always scary?, automaton, fantasy, is it a haunted cuckoo clock?, what does that mean?, why is that in there?, who is Pete?, Pete has to be her dead brother, did Pete die in the same way?, the Black Forest, what’s wrong with this woman?, “it was written in the fifties!”, she’s happy and she’s sad, Umberto Eco and the role of the reader, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Eric S. Rabkin, Warehouse 13, is the first line a moral lesson (or merely a magazine call out)?, Project Gutenberg’s etext edition of Beyond The Door, Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, this story is not about a cuckoo clock, it’s about the cuckoo bird and the cuckoo egg, and the egg’s name is Pete, Perky Pat, Gregg has read Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis, James Joyce, what am I thinking?, what am I feeling?, “keep thinking about that”, “it’s wholesale baby”, this is sex, Bob is her lover (in the 1950s sense), anthropomorphizing cuckoo clock’s bird is not that uncommon, “you’ll love it Bobby”, this is a really strange clock, it would keep you up all night, the cuckoo clock fad (they were ubiquitous), “like a new member of the family”, what is the symbol of?, the cuckoo is a brood parasite, the characteristics of cuckoo eggs and chicks, “some important special accounts” sounds like a story, “how nice you look today”, “Mrs. Peters across the street you know…”, “oh oh oh”, Pete was only her half brother, “it’s 3 o’clock in the morning and you need 5,000 words by ten a.m.”, Clans Of The Alphane Moon, Dick’s many marriages, Tessa Dick, structuralism vs. post structuralism, writer’s intent vs. the text standing alone, does the author’s intent matter?, a bastard child, “she’s seen this thing in action before”, the great depression -> WWII -> many impulsive marriages, Bob isn’t gay, “no guy is interested in buttons!”, “does he realize he is next in line?”, “monogamy is designed to makes sure the male gets a genetic heir”, the cuckoo is her champion, “I like a good deal”, “he’s rude, he doesn’t deserve to die”, there’s no magic, no science fiction, folklore, mythology, proto-story, Scott read Beyond The Door aloud to his daughter, James Thurber’s The Princess And The Tin Box, Anthony Boucher, three or four princes, reverse-dowry, “red charger” vs. plow horse, mica and hornblende, she’s not an idiot, anyone who thought she was going to…, this is an overturning of that, it’s a fractured fairy tale, a noir fairy tale, Frank R. Stockton, The Griffin and the Minor Canon, Snow White as a horror story, Rocky And Bullwinkle, June Foray, William Conrad, Jake And The Fatman, “finish before it burns”, the Marx Bros., the self-deprecating stuff we like today, Forever Peace, we got it sorted, anecdotal proof.
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Kids Stories and Fairy Tales - The Palace of Stories Podcast: Letters From God
A postman, saddened that he never has anything to give the boy who every day asks him if he has any post for him, decides to write the boy a letter himself. But from whom should he say it has come?…
http://www.PalaceOfStories.com Come on a journey to a Palace of Stories that is filled to the brim with fairy tales and bedtime stories! English Storyteller Leo Sofer tells stories for children that will inspire, delight and entertain. There are over a hundred MP3 stories here addressing themes such as self-esteem, generosity, and self-confidence. These are stories to nourish heart and mind, and remind children of kindness, love and the beauty that is within and all around them. Download free monthly podcasts, buy stories individually or subscribe for access to the whole catalogue.
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Kids Stories and Fairy Tales - The Palace of Stories Podcast: A Message For Kingly Eyes
A messenger arrives half dead at the King’s palace bearing an important message that he has travelled across the kingdom to deliver. But it can only be read by kingly eyes. When the guard finds that he cannot read it, he is faced with a dilemma: should he show it to the King or not? What if the King cannot read it either?….
http://www.PalaceOfStories.com Come on a journey to a Palace of Stories that is filled to the brim with fairy tales and bedtime stories! English Storyteller Leo Sofer tells stories for children that will inspire, delight and entertain. There are over a hundred MP3 stories here addressing themes such as self-esteem, generosity, and self-confidence. These are stories to nourish heart and mind, and remind children of kindness, love and the beauty that is within and all around them. Download free monthly podcasts, buy stories individually or subscribe for access to the whole catalogue.
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Kids Stories and Fairy Tales - The Palace of Stories Podcast: The Bishop The Vicars & The Wild Eyed Young Man
A bishop doing the rounds of his churches, hears of a young man who has been upsetting his vicars by going from one church to another and saying “Show me God!”, to which none of them have found an adequate answer….
http://www.PalaceOfStories.com Come on a journey to a Palace of Stories that is filled to the brim with fairy tales and bedtime stories! English Storyteller Leo Sofer tells stories for children that will inspire, delight and entertain. There are over a hundred MP3 stories here addressing themes such as self-esteem, generosity, and self-confidence. These are stories to nourish heart and mind, and remind children of kindness, love and the beauty that is within and all around them. Download free monthly podcasts, buy stories individually or subscribe for access to the whole catalogue.
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Kids Stories and Fairy Tales - The Palace of Stories Podcast: Joe, The Singing Pretzel-Seller
Posted in January 2011 For ages: 4-6, Length: 07:12, Year: 2010 One day Joe, who has sold pretzels on the same street corner for as long as anyone can remember, finds that his oven isn’t working. But the idea of having nothing to give his regular customers is so unappealing that Joe goes out and stands there nonetheless. Only when the first of his regulars asks him for a pretzel does the unexpected happen…
http://www.PalaceOfStories.com Come on a journey to a Palace of Stories that is filled to the brim with fairy tales and bedtime stories! English Storyteller Leo Sofer tells stories for children that will inspire, delight and entertain. There are over a hundred MP3 stories here addressing themes such as self-esteem, generosity, and self-confidence. These are stories to nourish heart and mind, and remind children of kindness, love and the beauty that is within and all around them. Download free monthly podcasts, buy stories individually or subscribe for access to the whole catalogue.
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Kids Stories and Fairy Tales - The Palace of Stories Podcast: The Flying Ox
Free Podcast The Flying Ox Posted in February 2011 For ages: 4-6, Length: 11:09, Year: 2009
“Let me tell you a secret” said the crow, as the Ox lay panting after pulling the plow all morning. “You, my friend, have wings… you’ve just forgotten about them!”
http://www.PalaceOfStories.com Come on a journey to a Palace of Stories that is filled to the brim with fairy tales and bedtime stories! English Storyteller Leo Sofer tells stories for children that will inspire, delight and entertain. There are over a hundred MP3 stories here addressing themes such as self-esteem, generosity, and self-confidence. These are stories to nourish heart and mind, and remind children of kindness, love and the beauty that is within and all around them. Download free monthly podcasts, buy stories individually or subscribe for access to the whole catalogue.
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Kids Stories and Fairy Tales - The Palace of Stories Podcast: How the Dragon Remembered His Fire
http://www.PalaceOfStories.com Come on a journey to a Palace of Stories that is filled to the brim with fairy tales and bedtime stories! English Storyteller Leo Sofer tells stories for children that will inspire, delight and entertain. There are over a hundred MP3 stories here addressing themes such as self-esteem, generosity, and self-confidence. These are stories to nourish heart and mind, and remind children of kindness, love and the beauty that is within and all around them. Download free monthly podcasts, buy stories individually or subscribe for access to the whole catalogue.
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Stories of the Journey Home: The Jar of Heavenly Music
Three interwoven tales:
A man, walking along a busy street, discovers a mysterious note in his pocket that he hadn’t put there…
A married couple, living on a desolate piece of land, attempt something rather peculiar to gain clarity on their situation…
An angel in heaven makes a somewhat extreme request of God…
Recorded live at Findhorn, Scotland, by Leo Sofer.
This will stay up for 2-3 months, after which time Leo Sofer takes them down and compiles CDs for sale. (http://www.luminaia.com/stories/)
Featured at Forgotten Classics in episode 82.
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