It's Aesop's Fables - told by Aesop himself, in the highly entertaining
production in the classic CRT style!
The
Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air presents J.T. Turner as Aesop in A
VISIT WITH AESOP. Highly entertaining and funny, this will surely
be enjoyed by both children and adults. Based on his stage play,
J.T. Turner weaves these tales in such a way that you will feel you are
hearing them for the first time. The Boy who cried Wolf, The
Mouse and the Lion, The Grasshopper and the Ant - they're all here, and
will surely give you a smile and some laughs .... no matter WHAT your
age is! A VISIT WITH AESOP is a new gem that your family is sure
to enjoy.
A poor woman lives far from London in a cottage with her "indolent,
careless, and extravagant" son, Jack. The two have little money and are
forced to sell their last possession, a cow. Jack leads the animal
along the road and meets an old man who trades some magic beans for the
cow. Jack’s mother is furious when she discovers he has come home with
no money, and tosses the beans away. The next morning, Jack finds a
beanstalk has grown to the clouds and climbs it … finally reaching a
castle, high above the sky!
“Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were
falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and
the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was
sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her
finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow.
And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to
herself, "Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood,
and as black as the wood of the window-frame." Soon after that she had
a little daughter, who was as white as snow, and as red as blood, and
her hair was as black as ebony; and she was therefore called Little
Snow-white. And when the child was born, the Queen died. A year later,
the King remarried a haughty and vain woman and that’s when Snow
White’s troubles began.
