Podcasts by Bedtime Stories for the End of the World

Episode Nine: In The Beginning from 2021-07-27T04:01

The final episode of our current series explores myths of creation, with poets Anthony Anaxagorou and Chloe Elliott joining our host Eleanor Penny. Chloe gives her interpretation of the ancient ...

Episode Eight: Hunger Moon from 2021-07-20T04:03

This week we have an unusual episode of Bedtime Stories as two poets each provide different reimaginings of the same traditional story. Poets Nina Mingya Powles and Maggie Wang join our host Ele...

Episode Seven: Sleepless from 2021-07-13T04:03

Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Antosh Wojcik and Alice Frecknall. They have chosen to reimagine stories from the Victorian and Edwardian era, which themselves drew on traditional trop...

Episode Six: Not Some Small Villain from 2021-07-06T03:19

This episode welcomes Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Bigglestone who have each revived a millennia-old monster. Jack lands the mythical figure of the Basilisk in contemporary life, whilst Vanessa rete...

Episode Five: To Take Back Untamed Ground from 2021-06-29T03:16

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 pred...

Episode Four: Blossomed from Fierceness from 2021-06-22T03:22

Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Momtaza Mehri and Jamie Hale who each explore a number of traditional characters. Jamie has chosen to reimagine figures and moments from Aruthurian myth...

Episode Three: Every Small Catastrophe from 2021-06-15T03:19

Today’s episode features poets R. A. Villanueva and Fathima Zahra. They each retell a traditional story of a powerful female figure, imagining Penelope before her wedding to Odysseus, and recoun...

Episode Two: Dark Water from 2021-06-08T03:17

This week’s guests joining Eleanor Penny are poets Luke Palmer and Joe Dunthorne. Luke reimagines the traditional Grimm’s fairytale of Hansel and Gretel, whilst Joe explores the trope of water-m...

Episode One: Beyond Old, and into Myth from 2021-06-01T03:05

The Bedtime Stories for the End of the World podcast is back for another series, asking leading poets to reimagine traditional stores for our apocalyptic age. 

Joining Eleanor Penny this ...

Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories Book Preview from 2020-10-22T01:00

**NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOK - RELEASED 19 NOVEMBER**

We bring you exciting news that Bedtime Stories for the End of the World has partnered with Studio Press and illustrator Inkquisitive to cr...

Episode Six: No Justice, Only Prizes from 2019-10-21T02:01

Our final episode of the current series looks at power and control. Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Jack Underwood, Amina Jama and Oliver Fox. They share reimaginings of the Jörmungand...

Episode Five: The Sin of Clay from 2019-10-14T02:01

Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Sabrina Mahfouz, Geraldine Clarkson and Stuart Buck. Together they explore our relationship with mythical characters; re-imagining stories of Prometheus...

Episode Four: My Heart Was So Greedy from 2019-10-07T02:01

In our fourth episode poets Ella Frears, Annie Hayer and Andrew McMillan join our host Eleanor Penny to discuss traditional tales of love and relationships. They re-imagine Eurydice, wife of Orp...

Episode Three: Sweetness and Fear from 2019-09-30T02:01

Our third episode explores monsters, outlaws and home invaders, as our host Eleanor Penny sits down with poets Helen Mort, Romalyn Ante and Tice Cin. Their mythic re-imaginings include the vampi...

Episode Two: She Not Here to Make Friends from 2019-09-23T02:01

This week poets Malika Booker, Natalie Linh Bolderston and Olga Dermott-Bond bring to life traditional stories of powerful women. We hear about the West Indian temptress La Diablesse, Vietnamese...

Episode One: The Flood Came from 2019-09-16T12:09:07

In the first episode of Series Two, we’re facing environmental catastrophe in its various forms. Joining Eleanor Penny, are Forward Prize winning poet Kei Miller and young poets Gboyega Odubanjo...

Series Two - Launches 16 September from 2019-09-10T11:58:28

Bedtime Stories for the End of the World returns on Monday 16 September, bringing you another six episodes of poetry for our apocalyptic age.

Each episode will feature brand new poetry fr...

Episode Six: The Humdrum of Bone from 2018-07-23T02:00

Jay Bernard, Simran Uppal and Rhian Edwards dive into some of the world's most iconic compendiums of myth: The Arthurian Legends, the Ramayana and the Mabinogion.

This week we bring you s...

Episode Five: Dinner with the Ancestors from 2018-07-16T02:00

Kate Denereaz revisits the story of Melusine: a half-woman, half-serpent hiding her curse from her human husband and their children. Leke Oso Alabi brings Menelik I into modern London...

Episode Four: Edgelands from 2018-07-09T02:00

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 Mothers of Heimdallr. Leonardo Boix leaves gifts of ru...

Episode Three: Darling Girl from 2018-07-02T01:39:13

This is the week of wicked women. S. Niroshini faces down the goddess Kali. Lucia Dove visits Baba Yaga in her chicken leg hut at the edge of the forest. Joelle Taylor talks to the Fu...

Episode Two: Sympathy for Wild Horses from 2018-06-26T01:55:28

SYMPATHY FOR WILD HORSES

This week Kayo Chingonyi, Phoebe Stuckes and Kandace Siobhan Walker are take long walks with lonely monsters. Nyami Nyami looks out on a modern Zambia, Cassandra ...

Episode One: Leaving The Island from 2018-06-18T01:01

Inua Ellams, Laurie Ogden and Alycia Pirmohamed unpack stories of travel and the heartbreak of homesickness. Featuring a mercenary Little Mermaid, a Persephone tale for third-culture kids, and I...

Welcome to Bedtime Stories for the End of the World from 2018-05-14T00:06:41

Welcome to Bedtime Stories for the End of the World - where we ask poets to rewrite their favourite myths, folk tales and fairy stories. First episode 18/06/18