About this episode

Episode 37 features four tales from Bridget Hadaway's collection of fairy tales.

This week on River Reads, Episode 37- Rosemary & Gold, features four tales from the collection Fairy Tales as retold by Bridget Hadaway, called Beauty & the Beast, Foolish Jim & Clever James, The Pied Piper of Hamelin and The Sprig of Rosemary. 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 ho...

People in this episode

Host: River Wilde

Topics covered

• fairy tales
• storytelling
• family
• children's literature
• classic tales

Keywords

• fairy tales
• Bridget Hadaway
• Beauty & the Beast
• Foolish Jim & Clever James
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Sprig of Rosemary

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Beauty & the Beast, Foolish Jim & Clever James, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Sprig of Rosemary

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