Ep 29 - Love To Death

This week on River Reads, Episode 29 - Love To Death, will be featuring the stories, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and Elder-Tree Mother,  from  the collection FairyTales by Hans Anderson. As well as the tale, How Six Traveled Through the World, by the Brothers Grimm’s. Stick around til the end, for this episode's Gender Blender tale reveal! The suspense! ! The suspense! Plus a longer and more intimate River Rambles, as the host recounts a recent personal story. *Content warning: homophobia* *Content warning: homophobia*

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

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 are: 

1. The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Fairy Tales By Hans Anderson. Weathervane Books. Crown Publishers. New York. 1977 Printing.

2. Elder-Tree Mother. Fairy Tales By Hans Anderson. Weathervane Books. Crown Publishers. New York. 1977 Printing.

3. How Six Traveled Through The World. Grimm’s Fairy Tales By Brothers Grimm. Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport, Tennessee. 1976 Printing.

River Reads has won  Best Podcast in the Small Market category at 2023 Broadcast Dialogue's Canadian Radio Awards.