Tag: Fairy Tales
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Selected Shorts: Wondrous Women
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Guest host John Lithgow introduces two stories with strong women.
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Selected Shorts: Little Fellows
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Fractured fairy tales and brotherly love are featured on this program’s trio of stories.
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Selected Shorts: Mysteries and Wonders
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Tales with twists and honoring a mother.
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Mysteries and Wonders
Sunday, December 26, 2010
This week's episode includes three tales by Saki, Liliana Heker, Charles Johnson about something unexpected, along with a fourth in which Edwidge Danticat secretly follows her mother.
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Special Guest: Gregory Maguire
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Kurt Andersen talks with Gregory Maguire, author of fairy tales for children and upside-down fairy tales for adults. His novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is now a blockbuster Broadway musical. He is also the author of Mirror Mirror, Confessions of an ...
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Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Saturday, December 03, 2005
In 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini — like an evil sorcerer in a fairy tale — condemned Salman Rushdie for heresy, essentially marking the writer for death wherever he was. Rushdie left his family and went into hiding, and reached out to his young son through a new book, Haroun and ...
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Nutcracker, Rumpelstiltskin, Syriana
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Once upon a time, there was a radio program trapped in the tall tower of a stone building. . . Studio 360 falls under the spell of fairy tales. Kurt Andersen and Gregory Maguire, who wrote Wicked, talk about why at Christmas, America turns into “Nutcracker Nation.” They hear about ...
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Saturday, December 25, 2004
This fall a new opera called Haroun premiered, based on the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. In 1989, Rushdie was forced into hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini and declared that his novel The Satanic Verses was heresy against Islam ...
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Tom Otterness
Saturday, December 25, 2004
For years Tom Otterness’s creations have been getting into all kinds of trouble. In New York he’s best known for his little bronze figures that roam throughout the 14th Street subway station. They’re cute and creepy at the same time; some even have money-bags for heads. Otterness wants ...