Episode Nine: In The Beginning
The final episode of our current series explores myths of creation, with poets Anthony Anaxagorou and Chloe Elliott joining our host Eleanor...
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Bedtime Stories for the End of the World
A poetry podcast about the power of myth and the politics of storytelling
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20 of 24 episodesEpisode Eight: Hunger Moon
This week we have an unusual episode of Bedtime Stories as two poets each provide different reimaginings of the same traditional story. Poet...
Episode Seven: Sleepless
Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Antosh Wojcik and Alice Frecknall. They have chosen to reimagine stories from the Victorian and Ed...
Episode Six: Not Some Small Villain
This episode welcomes Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Bigglestone who have each revived a millennia-old monster. Jack lands the mythical figure of...
Episode Five: To Take Back Untamed Ground
This week, poets Mona Arshi and Amara Amaryah join Eleanor Penny to discuss their reinterpretations of traditional stories. Mona imagines th...
Episode Four: Blossomed from Fierceness
Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Momtaza Mehri and Jamie Hale who each explore a number of traditional characters. Jamie has chosen...
Episode Three: Every Small Catastrophe
Today’s episode features poets R. A. Villanueva and Fathima Zahra. They each retell a traditional story of a powerful female figure, imagini...
Episode Two: Dark Water
This week’s guests joining Eleanor Penny are poets Luke Palmer and Joe Dunthorne. Luke reimagines the traditional Grimm’s fairytale of Hanse...
Episode One: Beyond Old, and into Myth
The Bedtime Stories for the End of the World podcast is back for another series, asking leading poets to reimagine traditional stores for ou...
Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories Book Preview
**NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOK - RELEASED 19 NOVEMBER** We bring you exciting news that Bedtime Stories for the End of the World has partnered with...
Episode Six: No Justice, Only Prizes
Our final episode of the current series looks at power and control. Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Jack Underwood, Amina Jama and...
Episode Five: The Sin of Clay
Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Sabrina Mahfouz, Geraldine Clarkson and Stuart Buck. Together they explore our relationship with m...
Episode Four: My Heart Was So Greedy
In our fourth episode poets Ella Frears, Annie Hayer and Andrew McMillan join our host Eleanor Penny to discuss traditional tales of love an...
Episode Three: Sweetness and Fear
Our third episode explores monsters, outlaws and home invaders, as our host Eleanor Penny sits down with poets Helen Mort, Romalyn Ante and...
Episode Two: She Not Here to Make Friends
This week poets Malika Booker, Natalie Linh Bolderston and Olga Dermott-Bond bring to life traditional stories of powerful women. We hear ab...
Episode One: The Flood Came
In the first episode of Series Two, we’re facing environmental catastrophe in its various forms. Joining Eleanor Penny, are Forward Prize wi...
Series Two - Launches 16 September
Bedtime Stories for the End of the World returns on Monday 16 September, bringing you another six episodes of poetry for our apocalyptic age...
Episode Six: The Humdrum of Bone
Jay Bernard, Simran Uppal and Rhian Edwards dive into some of the world's most iconic compendiums of myth: The Arthurian Legends, the Ramaya...
Episode Five: Dinner with the Ancestors
Kate Denereaz revisits the story of Melusine: a half-woman, half-serpent hiding her curse from her human husband and their children. Leke Os...
Episode Four: Edgelands
This week we're roaming around the borderlands, where towns and cities meet the wild. Miriam Nash pulls up a seat at the fire with the Nine...