Ep 39 - The Pain of Envy

From River Reads by River Wilde

April 11, 2026 · 58 min · Season 4 · Episode 39

About this episode

This episode features two tales from a collection of fairy tales, exploring themes of storytelling and imagination.

This week on River Reads, Episode 39- The Pain of Envy, features two longer tales from the collection Fairy Tales as retold by Bridget Hadaway, called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor. 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 host fumbles words, and then there’s those stor...

People in this episode

Host: River Wilde

Topics covered

fairy tales
storytelling
literature
family
children's stories

Keywords

fairy tales
Sleepy Hollow
Sindbad
storytelling
River Reads

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fairy Tales as retold by Bridget Hadaway, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor