Happy holidays to all! In celebration of the season, here's a rendition of my favorite Christmas pilot. It's Christmas Eve, 1957, and a lone pilot is trying to get home to his family. Midway during his flight, all radio communication cuts out,
Season One Finale! In this grand conclusion (from the Tibetan Wonder Tales), a kingdom is ravaged by two serpent-gods. The only person brave enough to save them? A young Prince, and his best friend. Will the pair be able to stop the serpents, a
Our second last episode, and Gerda is just steps away from the Snow Queen's palace. However, as she travels in Lapland, she gets lost. With Kay so close, will Gerda complete her quest? Tune in to find out.
Another day, another adventure with Gerda! Today, as Gerda drives through the forest in her carriage, she is set upon by a band of robbers. Will she survive? Will she ever hear word of Kay? Tune in to find out!
In today's adventure, The Prince and the Princess, Gerda makes some new friends. From them, she hears of a mysterious young boy who befriended a princess a few towns away. Might it be Kay? Tune in to find out!
Today we start a longer series, The Snow Queen, a classic Dutch tale by Hans Christian Andersen. If you don't know it, you're in for a treat. This story (made up of 7 shorter stories) is all about the love we share with everyone in our lives, a
Classic Fairy Tale Alert!! Today, we dive into one of the stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection I remember reading as a kid with my mom before bed. In this episode, a merchant accidentally angers a genie, and must pay the ultim
Another episode, and our first request! Thanks to Diana, for asking for a Bulgarian folk tale. In this story, an evil witch has banished the spring forever, and its up to one little girl to save her town from eternal winter. Will she be able to
On this weeks episode, we dive into Celtic folklore. In this tale, as retold by Ella Young, the halter of the Cow of Plenty is stolen from Gobniu, the Wonder Smith, by the evil Balor. Only Cian, the son of Dian-Cecht (the god of healing) can re
This week, we dive into The Norka, a tale from Russian folklore transcribed in Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book. A huge beast, the Norka, is terrorizing a kingdom, so the King sends his sons to defeat it. After the Norka flees to another world,
The second and final piece of The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Join me as the five brave knights set out on their quests for the magical items Princess Moonlight requested. Will they find the items, and re
Today, we look at the oldest Japanese prose narrative in existence: The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child. In this tale, a poor bamboo cutter finds a glowing child in a stalk of bamboo, and raises her as his own. She grows up to be the most beau
Our third episode takes us to a Serbian fairy tale collection. A young prince is forced to leave his home by his father and must wander the countryside, having many an adventure as he tries to get back into the king's good graces. Translated by