Listen "The Grimms’ Weird Tales"
Episode Synopsis
The folk tales collected and rewritten by the Brothers Grimm may ‘seem to come from nowhere and to belong to everyone’, Colin Burrow wrote recently in the LRB, but ‘this is an illusion’. In the latest episode of the LRB podcast, Colin joins Thomas Jones to talk about the distinctive place and time in which Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived and worked, as well as the enduring appeal and ‘vital weirdness’ of the tales.
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Visit the Munch exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery: https://www.npg.org.uk/munch
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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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