Tag: Radio 4

• New Year, Resolutions and an Arthurian Sword

  It’s New Year’s Day… And here is the Wart, on New Year’s Day, pulling the Sword from the Stone in the Disney cartoon of the same name. The film was based on TH White’s The Once and Future King, Happy New Year Everyone! Since people seem to be making resolutions and planning for 2015 I feel as if…

  chrisharding53

  January 1, 2015

  books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, New Year, Radio 4, resolutions, The Once and Future Kind

• Grimm Thoughts on Fairy Tales

  Further to my mention of fairy stories in yesterday’s post, did anyone else out there listen to Grimm Tales on Radio 4? Writer and mythologist Marina Warner, whose work I always admire, marked the bicentenary of the first publication of Grimm’s Fairy Tales with an exploration of the stories – their origins, how they were…

  chrisharding53

  January 9, 2013

  BBC, Fairy Stories, Fairy Tales, Grimm Thoughts, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Radio, Radio 4