Great Stories about Great Storytellers
GREAT STORIES about GREAT STORYTELLERS shares insights into storytellers whose names you no doubt recognize—names like Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Spielberg John Grisham and Walt Disney—but reveals the backstories you probably never heard about them. The podcast features different kinds of storytellers—authors, directors, playwrights and even a poet or two. In short 10-15 minutes episodes, this fun and sometimes funny podcast features anecdotes and tidbits about storytellers, with each episode spotlighting a modern storyteller like Tom Clancy or a classical name like Charles Dickens, but in a very different light.
Great Stories about Great Storytellers
What You Didn't Know about Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL
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Randy Overbeck
In the episode you'll learn--
- How Charles Dickens became the pre-eminent British author of the Victorian age
- How Dickens pioneered the serialization technique to reach more readers than ever
- How A CHRISTMAS CAROL changed the celebration of Christmas in England
- How the novella started the concept of giving to those less fortunate at Christmas time
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!