Ep 3 - Darker Tales

River Reads

This week, on River Reads Episode 3 - Darker Tales (originally aired on CICK Smithers Community Radio @ smitherradio.com), LISTENERS BEWARE, as we cover some darker tales and play around with narration. Not kids show but not not a kids show. Listener discretion advised. Reading the longer macabre fairy tales, 'The Bronze Ring' and 'The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear'. Both tale's this week involve disturbing and graphic depictions and have received a River Reads' Rating of GGD, for Gross Gore and/or Death. Our favorite kind of stories!
And as promised in episode two, a brief fairy tale, 'The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean', will be presented in 2 different narrative styles. Displaying the influence narration, and production, can have on the story telling and the listener's understanding of the story. This tale receives a PGD River Reads' Rating, for Possible Gore and/or Death ("gore” is subjective). As narrated "live" by Wilde.
River Reads is a program for all ages to escape into creative commons bedtime stories and fairy tales; 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 stories who have not aged well.
Narrated stories included in this episode are:

1. The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport, Tennessee. Kingsport Press, Inc. 1976 Printing.
2. The Bronze Ring. The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. This edition printed in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press. 2003 Printing.
3. The Tale of a Youth who Set out to Learn what Fear Was. The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. This edition printed in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press. 2003 Printing.

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Chapters

1. Ep 3 - Darker Tales (00:00:00)

2. The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean (in the style of Law & Order, 1 of 2)) (00:00:52)

3. Introduction (River Rambles) (00:04:39)

4. The Bronze Ring (00:07:10)

5. Middle River Rambles (00:31:47)

6. The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was (00:32:23)

7. The Straw, Coal and the Bean (2 of 2) (00:54:51)