River Reads

This week is Episode 6 - Cocks, Peas & Princesses (Original aired (April 1st, 2023) on Smithers Community Radio @ smitherradio.com ) of River Reads , where host narrator River Wilde reads classics from the story collection, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This week River Rambles about misogyny and sexuality and narrates, in no particular order: 1) The Princess and the Pea; 2) The F...

This week on River Reads , Episode 5 - What's Your Point, we focus on the short story collection, “A Gallery of Children," by A. A. Milne, first published in 1925. In a new segment, River Rambles , Wilde ponders what is the point ? And where are we going? regarding this weeks collection of stories. A collection that often seems to leave the reader wanting more.  Or at the very least, lef...

This week is Episode 4 - Numbers (Original aired on Smithers Community Radio @ smitherradio.com (March 18th, 2023) ) of River Reads , where we focus on numbers in Fairy tales. That is, any stories that have a number in their title. In no particular order, stories from the Grimm's Fairy Tales: 1)'The Three Children of Fortune'; 2) 'The Twelve Brothers'; 3) 'The Wolf an...

In Episode 2 - FairyTales & River Reads' Rating System (originally aired on CICK Smithers Community Radio @ smithersradio.com) ,  host narrator River Wilde discusses the history of Fairytales and what is and isn't a Fairytale. Wilde dives into the collection the Grimms' Fairy Tales , narrating five stories: 1) The Twelve Dancing Princesses; 2) The Three Spinning Fairies; 3) The...

This week, on River Reads Episode 3 - Darker Tales (originally aired on CICK Smithers Community Radio @ smitherradio.com), LISTENERS BEWARE , as we cover some darker tales and play around with narration. Not kids show but not not a kids show. Listener discretion advised. Reading the longer macabre fairy tales, 'The Bronze Ring' and ' The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fea...

Host River Wilde debuts their series, "River Reads", originally aired on CICK Smithers Community Radio @ smithersradio.com.  A story hour for all ages to escape into bedtime stories and fairy tales; both new and old, but mostly old and at times macabre, or silly, or even perhaps a little confusing as written in old english and the host fumbles words, and then there’s those stories that h...