Ep 3 - Darker Tales

04/18/23 • 58 min

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:

The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport, Tennessee. Kingsport Press, Inc. 1976 Printing.
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.
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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The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport, Tennessee. Kingsport Press, Inc. 1976 Printing.
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.
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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Ep 1 - River Reads Debut

Host River Wilde debuts their series, "River Reads", originally aired on CICK Smithers Community Radio @ smithersradio.com. A story hour for all ages to escape into 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 those stories that have not aged well. Let’s face it, you can’t be too picky when you’re dependent upon creative commons material.
Not a kids show but not not a kids show. Viewer discretion is advised.

In this episode, narrated stories include:

RAPUNZEL by The Brother Grimm. London. Oxford University Press.
THE UGLY DUCKLING by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by R.P. Keigwin. Flensted Publishers, Odense, Denmark.
THE FROG PRINCE by Core Knowledge ® Foundation. This work is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This remixed edition of this work is remixed and published by: http://www.freekidsbooks.org, Any use of this material in this format must be attributed to: http://www.freekidsbooks.org.
EVERY MINUTE COUNTS by Storyweaver-Pratham. http://www.freekidsbooks.org

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Ep 4 - Numbers

This week is Episode 4 -Numbers (Original aired on Smithers Community Radio @ smitherradio.com (March 18th, 2023)) of River Reads, where we focus on numbers in Fairy tales. That is, any stories that have a number in their title. In no particular order, stories from the Grimm's Fairy Tales: 1)'The Three Children of Fortune'; 2) 'The Twelve Brothers'; 3) 'The Wolf and the Seven Goats'; and 4) 'The Four Accomplished Bothers'. The River Reads show is "Not a kids show but not not a kids show". Listener discretion is advised.

Also on episode 4, Wilde does a call out to authors seeking to have their original works perhaps featured on future River Reads. If interested, please contact River Reads at [email protected].
This week's program contains mature situations/themes and is intended for an older youth audience. Viewer discretion is advised. Many of the stories have been rated a River Reads Rating of PGD for Possible Gore and/or Death ('gore' is subjective) and GGD for Gross Gore and/or Death (River’s favorite kind of stories).
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.
This week episode includes:

The Three Children of Fortune. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport, Tennessee. 1976 Printing.
The Twelve Brothers . Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport, Tennessee. 1976 Printing.
The Wolf and the Seven Goats . Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport, Tennessee. 1976 Printing.
The Six Swans. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport, Tennessee. 1976 Printing.
The Four Accomplished Bothers. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport, Tennessee. 1976 Printing.

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