About this episode
This episode features a tale from The Blue Fairy Book, exploring themes of fairy tales and storytelling.
This week on River Reads Episode 42- Stranger Danger features one longer tale from the collection The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, called, A Voyage to Lilliput. 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 stories whose premises have perhaps not aged as well over ...
People in this episode
Host: River Wilde
Topics covered
- fairy tales
- storytelling
- children's literature
- classic stories
- macabre tales
Keywords
- Stranger Danger
- fairy tales
- A Voyage to Lilliput
- Andrew Lang
- River Reads
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Blue Fairy Book, A Voyage to Lilliput
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