Grimm Reading

By: Adam Field & Matt Hughes
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  • Join two amateur Grimmologists round the fire to read and discuss the tales of the Brothers Grimm.
    Copyright 2018 All rights reserved.
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  • Donkey Cabbages

    Donkey Cabbages
    Nov 10 2024

    We take on Donkey Cabbages - one of the most bizarre and barmy tales we've heard in a while.

    Not only do we get witches, giants and magic clouds, we also discover a new concept - the minimal counterintuitive hypothesis. What makes a story stick? Some scientists think they've found the answer...

    We then briefly look at man-donkeys in storytelling, say hi to Shakespeare, and meet the long-forgotten German folkhero Fortunatus.

    Here's a link to the paper we discuss in the episode: Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives

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    Theme music: Bicycle Waltz by Goodbye Kumiko

    Other Music: Grieg's Holberg Suite, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston // Massenet's Toccata Jules Massenet, performed Jean Dube
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    59 mins
  • Baba Yaga And The Brave Youth (Halloween Special 2024)

    Baba Yaga And The Brave Youth (Halloween Special 2024)
    Oct 27 2024
    It’s getting spooky in the castle as we read Baba Yaga and the Brave Youth. Will our hero escape the clutches of our favourite Slavic witch? Why does Baba Yaga love spoons so much? And has she secretly been a mother all along? Join us round the fire to find out all this and more. Happy Halloween everyone!

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    Theme music: Bicycle Waltz by Goodbye Kumiko

    Other Music: Rachmaninoff's Canon in E Minor, performed by Luis Kolodin // Rachmaninoff's String Quartett No. 2 performed by Steve Jones // Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39 performed by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni // Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor
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    47 mins
  • The Four Skillful Brothers

    The Four Skillful Brothers
    Oct 13 2024

    We’re back with a brand new series and a brand new volume of tales...

    And we begin with The Four Skillful Brothers, a story of masterly thievery, improbable astronomy, dastardly dragons, and a man who sews up eggs.

    After the story, we explore its origins before doing a deep dive on dragons: including the history of rescuing princesses from dragons in storytelling, and a patriotic stretch where we look into the Welsh red dragon and the story of St. George.

    We can’t wait to get stuck into Volume 2; thanks for sticking around!

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    Theme music: Bicycle Waltz by Goodbye Kumiko

    Other Music: Dvorak's Romance for violin and piano, performed by Goldstein and M Pavel // Schubert's Fantasy in C Major Op.15 D.760 'Wanderer' - I. Allegro con fuoco
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    1 hr and 9 mins

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