
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
Anne Frank's Diary--Its Incredible Success and Controversy
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode, listeners will learn''
- how Anne was able to chronicle the Frank's family challenges as representative of the horrors of the Holocaust
- how Anne Frank aspired to become a journalist after the war and how this fueled her writing
- how the incredible popularity of her diary has led to some world-wide controversies.
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!