Midas and The Golden Touch

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1946-uu-uu.

The episode begins with the narrator telling the children that it's story time and introducing the episode's story, 'The Golden Touch', from Greece. The program tells the story of King Midas, who is given the ability to turn anything he touches into gold by the god Bacchus. He cannot eat or drink, for his food and drink turns to gold in his mouth. When he kisses his daughter in the morning, she also turns to gold. In his remorse, he begs Bacchus to take the golden touch from him and gives all his gold up in order to have his daughter again. The program features multiple voice actors and pieces of music in order to tell the story.

WNYC archives id: 49661