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 the experience of one of Scheherazade’s unfortunate predecessors, a young woman sent to marry the Emperor and meet her death in the Arabian Nights. Amara meanwhile explores the historical figure Queen Nanny of the Maroons, an eighteenth century Jamaican leader who led a guerilla war against the slave-owning, colonial British rule; allegedly involving supernatural powers. Find out more, listen to all our poems and catch up with all of our previous episodes at: endoftheworldpodcast.com

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Episode Five: To Take Back Untamed Ground is an episode from Bedtime Stories for the End of the World by endoftheworldpodcast.

This episode is 34:47 long.

This episode was published on Jun 29, 2021.

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