Podcast Episodes featuring Hans Christian Andersen

269-Hans Christian Andersen: What We Do With the Shadows

Myths and Legends - May 04, 2022 03:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 22.8K ratings
A story from Hans Christian Andersen about becoming your best self…after that self completely separates from you and leaves you as merely a shadow. The creature this time is the invincible bear monster your ghost grandpa warned you about. — Scoundrel: All new this week! https://myths.link/sco...

Hans Christian Andersen

Legacy: the Artists Behind the Legends - September 15, 2017 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratings
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer active during the 19th century and best known for his incredible and vast number of fairy tales. In total, Andersen wrote close to 3381 works, and over the years his fairy tales have been translated into roughly 125 different languages. And while some o...

The Fairy Tale Life of Hans Christian Andersen

Stuff You Missed in History Class - February 27, 2012 18:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 22.6K ratings
Hans Christian Andersen is often considered the father of the modern fairy tale, but his life was not the quiet existence depicted in his photos. His personal life is fairly bizarre, and he is sometimes compared to his own outcast fairy tale figures. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:/...