Pick Up & Read: Recent Episodes
Pick Up & Read
From Andrew Lang's Yellow Fairy Book, "The Three Brothers" tells the story of a young man whose story begins with a mysterious hawk--actually a witch--who comes in the night to destroy the windows of his church. From there he finds love, fortune, betrayal, and magic in a land deep below the earth.
One of the Tales of the Yukon by Robert W. Service (1874-1958), the Cremation of Sam McGee finds humor in the deadly cold of northern Canada.
From Andrew Lang's The Yellow Fairy Book, "The Iron Stove" is an adaptation of a story from Grimm. A tale of love and enchantment, it tells of princess at first reluctantly engaged who loses her prince and the lengths to which she must go to find him again.
From Andrew Lang's Brown Fairy Book, "How Some Wild Animals Became Tame" is an adaptation based on the Lappländische Märchen.
From Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book, we hear of the true story of Little Golden-Hood. We learn the true color and power of the hood. We hear how the grandmother needed no woodcutter to save her as well!
A brief overview of the podcast reflecting briefly on the inspiration of the title in the conversion story of St. Augustine.