#60 Sindbad the Sailor | The Thousand and One Nights
Katrina and Geoff go sailing... seven times! That's right, we're getting into the Sindbad the Sailor cycles of stories from The Thousand and One Nights. Sindbad is one of those characters with massive...
23 Okt 20211h 55min
#59 Haunted Japan: Japanese Ghost Stories
Katrina and Geoff ain't afraid of no ghosts! In this episode, we kick off spooky season by diving into the world of Japanese ghosts. We explore what different types of ghost stories we tell say about ...
8 Okt 20211h 27min
#58 Harun al Rashid | Thousand and One Nights
Katrina and Geoff talk caliphs, real and imagined! In this episode, Katrina and Geoff retell the tale "Harun al-Rashid and the Second Caliph" from The Thousand and One Nights. But first Katrina tells ...
25 Sep 20211h 16min
#57 Chu Cuoi the Moon Boy
Katrina and Geoff kick off the holiday season! That's right, the holidays are just around the corner, starting with the Mid Autumn Moon Festival, an immensely important holiday throughout eastern Asia...
10 Sep 20211h
#56 Wiles of Women | The Thousand and One Nights
Katrina and Geoff talk wily women (and vile viziers)! In this complex and in no way controversial cycle of tales within tales a king's seven viziers engage in a high stakes storytelling battle for the...
27 Aug 20212h 1min
#55 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Spoiler Alert: If you don't want to have the end of The Green Knight spoiled for you, wait on this episode. Katrina and Geoff get medieval! Many have wondered how Hollywood could take the 50 page poe...
13 Aug 20212h 17min
#54 The City of Brass | The Thousand and One Nights
Katrina and Geoff discuss death (again)! In this super-sized edition of our Thousand and One Nights series we dive deep into The City of Brass. What starts off as a quest to bring the caliph his very ...
24 Juli 20212h 18min
#53 The Taming of the Shrew
Katrina and Geoff talk Shakespeare! In this episode Katrina educates us on the tale type that was the basis of The Taming of the Shrew. Even though the tale type far predates Shakespeare's play, schol...
9 Juli 20211h 21min
