Ep 21 - Fatale Flowers

This week on River Reads, Episode 21 - Fatale Flowers, (Originally airing on Smither Community Radio, CICK 93.9FM, February 24th, 2024 at 10AM) we delve into  more melancholy tales around flowers.

In River Rambles, the host reflects on their initial hesitation to engage with these narratives, fearing they may evoke feelings of sadness and distress in our listeners.  However, a well crafted storytelling's purpose is to have the ability to elicit feelings, stimulate thoughts, and shape our beliefs. Taking this into consideration, we respectfully part ways with a number of our previous authors, embracing some foreboding thought-provoking narratives from Hans Christian Andersen's, "Fairy Tales and Stories."

River Reads is not a kids show but not not a kids show. Listener discretion advised.

River Reads is the recipient of a national award, winning the 2023  Broadcast Dialogue’s Canadian Radio Awards: Best Podcast in the Small Market category.

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 the years. Let’s face it you can’t be too picky when you’re dependent upon material available to you through creative commons.

This episode's fairy tales, in no particular order, are:

1. The Daisy.  Fairy Tales and Stories. Hans Christian Anderson. Translated by Dr. H. W. Dulcken. Rand, McNally & Company. Chicago and New York. Source: File:Fairy tales and stories (IA fairytalesstorie0ande).pdf. (2020, December 16). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 01:34, January 18, 2024 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fairy_tales_and_stories_(IA_fairytalesstorie0ande).pdf&oldid=519179407

2. A Leaf from the Sky.  Fairy Tales and Stories. Hans Christian Anderson. Translated by Dr. H. W. Dulcken. Rand, McNally & Company. Chicago and New York. Source: File:Fairy tales and stories (IA fairytalesstorie0ande).pdf. (2020, December 16). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 01:34, January 18, 2024 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fairy_tales_and_stories_(IA_fairytalesstorie0ande).pdf&oldid=519179407;

3. Little Ida’s Flowers. Fairy Tales and Stories. Hans Christian Anderson. Translated by Dr. H. W. Dulcken. Rand, McNally & Company. Chicago and New York. Source: File:Fairy tales and stories (IA fairytalesstorie0ande).pdf. (2020, December 16). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 01:34, January 18, 2024 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fairy_tales_and_stories_(IA_fairytalesstorie0ande).pdf&o

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River Reads: Fairytales and Stories
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