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
The Unlikely Story of a Favorite Childhood Author, Beatrix Potter
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Randy Overbeck
In the episode, you'll learn--
- how Beatrix Potter became one of the leading amateur scientists of her day
- how her love of animals led to her artistic rendering of these small creatures in her works
- how she came to writer "tiny" children's books which have rolled up sales to rival some of the biggest selling authors
- how her business savvy put her years ahead of other writers in the world of intellectual property rights
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!