1. Grandma and the Great Gourd

Welcome to the first episode of the Global Storytime Podcast! Every two weeks I will bring a story from a different corner of the world so that we can get a glimpse into another place and culture. I will do my best to explain the potentially unfamiliar to provide context and will end each episode with some information about the country so we can get to know it better! This week I bring you a story from the Bengal region in India. Grandma and the Great Gourd is a folktale about a courageous grandma and how she makes it through a dangerous forest with the help of her clever daughter. The retelling of this timeless tale is based on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale. Comments or critiques are sooo welcome. You can email the show at [email protected]. All sound effects and music fall under a Creative Commons 0 license and were found on freesounds.com and the Youtube Free Library. Intro Song: ‘Wheel of Karma’ Audionautix Transitions Song: ‘Bansure Raga’ Doug Maxwell Closing Song: ‘Holi Day Riddum’ Konrad Oldmoney