wbur.org
support wbur today!
Listen to this story
Fairy Tales
photo

The power and relevance of fairy tales. We’ve all heard them growing up: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk. They tell us about the quest for romance, riches, and power. They teach morals and lessons of hard work, staying on the right path and good prevailing over evil. But in a world of war, corporate scandal, politics, and economic insecurity, can tales of giants, glass slippers and gingerbread houses still speak to us today? Living happily ever after in an age of Terror.

Guests:

Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Harvard University and author and editor of “The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales”

 
 

Comments are closed.

Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

Comments [10]
 
Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

Comments [134]
On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

More » | Comments [20]
 
Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.
It was part of an MIT event held on Thursday, Nov. 5, to commemorate computer science professor Michael Hammer, who died last year. Here’s video of the full interview, courtesy of WBUR.org:

Among other things, Schmidt said the possibilities [...]

More » | Comments [4]
 
California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

More » | Comments [10]