EPISODE · Oct 13, 2020 · 40 MIN
Series 3.16, Stevenson's Fables: "The Poor Thing"
from Evening under Lamplight Podcast · host Robert-Louis Abrahamson
An eerie fairy tale about a fisherman who is "bitter poor in goods and bitter ugly in countenance", who is met by the ghostly figure of his future son, seeks advice and a gift from his dead ancestors on the "little isle of sheep", and fishes for a wife in the marketplace with his "shoe of a horse, and it rusty".
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Series 3.16, Stevenson's Fables: "The Poor Thing"
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