**NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOK - RELEASED 29 OCTOBER** We bring you exciting news that Bedtime Stories for the End of the World has partnered with Studio Press and illustrator Inkquisitive to create a wonderful illustrated book featuring stories from Malika Booker, Kayo Chingonyi, Inua Ellams, Will Harris, Helen Mort and Joelle Taylor. We speak to the writers and give a sneak preview of their stories ahead of the book's release on 29 October.  To buy a copy, visit bit.ly/InkTales Find out more about the podcast and catch up with all of our previous episodes at: endoftheworldpodcast.com

Bedtime Stories for the End of the World

Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories Book Preview

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 Jörmungandr or Norse World Snake; King Cnut; and the Somali Queen Arawelo. Find out more and catch up with all of our previous episodes at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod

Episode Six: No Justice, Only Prizes

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, Bluebeard, and the little-known Lob Lie-by-the-fire, who'll do your housework in return for a saucer of milk.   Find out more and catch up with Series One at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod

Episode Five: The Sin of Clay

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 Orpheus; the mythical half-seal half-women Selkie; and Jesus, who emerges as a dancefloor-parting queer icon. Find out more and catch up with Series One at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod

Episode Four: My Heart Was So Greedy

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 vampiric Fillipino Manananggal, the Turkish Cypriot fugitive Hasan Buli, and trespasser and porridge-thief Goldilocks. Find out more and catch up with Series One at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod

Episode Three: Sweetness and Fear

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 Warrior Triệu Thị Trinh, and the Irish giant-trickster Oonagh McCool. Find out more and catch up with Series One at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod  

Episode Two: She Not Here to Make Friends

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 and Joshua Judson. They share re-imaginings of the ‘meme’ of the Green Man, the Book of Revelation and the Jamaican Story of the Dry River. Find out more and catch up with Series One at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod

Episode One: The Flood Came

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 from some of the best UK poets, including: Malika Booker, Andrew McMillan, Sabrina Mahfouz, Kei Miller, Helen Mort, Jack Underwood and many more. Subscribe to make sure you don't miss en episode. For more information visit endoftheworldpodcast.com, or contact us on Twitter or Instagram @goodbyeworldpod

Series Two - Launches 16 September

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 stories about the Hijra, third-gender people blessed by Rama for their loyalty and devotion. We revisit the myth of Blodeuwedd, a woman crafted from flowers to be the wife of the hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes. And we excavate a little-known myth in the Arthurian canon: Sir Morian, the Moorish son of one of the Knights of the Round Table.  Find out more: endoftheworldpodcast.com twitter.com/goodbyeworldpod

Episode Six: The Humdrum of Bone

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, asking what the offspring the Queen of Sheba and the biblical King Solomon would make of our divided times. Rachel Long explores the uses of storytelling and survival through her own family mythology. Find out more: endoftheworldpodcast.com twitter.com/goodbyeworldpod  

Episode Five: Dinner with the Ancestors

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 rum and cigars for the forest-dwelling spirit Pombero, Señor De La Noche. The story of Baucis and Philemon teaches Nick Garrard to be kind to strangers, just in case they're vengeful gods in disguise.  Find out more: endoftheworldpodcast.com/episode-four twitter.com/goodbyeworldpod

Episode Four: Edgelands

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 Furies, vengeful spirits who drive men insane. The hags and crones come out to play.    Find out more: endoftheworldpodcast.com @goodbyeworldpod

Episode Three: Darling Girl

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 rips her fishnet stockings, and Boo-Hags stalk the wetlands of the Deep South Find out more:endoftheworldpodcast.com/episode-twotwitter.com/goodbyeworldpod

Episode Two: Sympathy for Wild Horses

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 Icarus fighting to survive in the refugee camps at the margins of Europe. Find out more: endoftheworldpodcast.com/episode-one@goodbyeworldpod

Episode One: Leaving The Island

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

Welcome to 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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Bedtime Stories for the End of the World

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