Chapter 46: Hans Christian Andersen, featuring Joe Wengert
The Dead Authors Podcast
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Chapter 46: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes fairy-taleist Hans Christian Andersen (Joe Wengert) to the Dead Authors stage. DID YOU KNOW? In Mr. Andersen's time, people from Denmark often thought they were from Holland!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is intended as entertainment for grownups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, |
| 0:04.9 | a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18. |
| 0:08.7 | Visit 826LA.org for a full schedule of 826LA's events and programs, |
| 0:13.5 | including the time travel mart, with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California. |
| 0:18.2 | And now, the host of the Dead Authors podcast, Mr. H. G. Wells. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello all, H.G. Wells here, welcoming you to Chapter 46 of the Dead Authors podcast with my guest, |
| 0:31.2 | beloved fairy tale author Hans Christian Anderson. In honor of Mr. Anderson's visit, I decided |
| 0:36.7 | to try my hand at the genre with which he is so closely associated. |
| 0:40.3 | I give you now my inaugural effort, the brilliant duckling. |
| 0:44.3 | It was a lovely summer weather in the country, and the golden corn, the green oats, and the honeyed haystacks, piled up in the meadows looked beautiful. |
| 0:55.0 | In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch. |
| 1:01.0 | At length, one shell cracked, and then another, and from each egg came a living creature that lifted its head and cried, |
| 1:08.0 | peep, peep! |
| 1:09.0 | As the last of the eggs broke, a young one crept |
| 1:12.7 | forth crying, I say, what about a scientist who concox a potion that renders him invisible? |
| 1:19.4 | The mother duck did not quite know how to respond, but the poor duckling, who had crept out |
| 1:24.8 | of his shell last of all, and was so very intelligent, was |
| 1:28.8 | bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the other ducklings, but by all the poultry. |
| 1:35.1 | His intellect is too keen, they all said, and the poor little thing was quite miserable, |
| 1:41.0 | because he was so brilliant and creative and laughed at by the whole of the farmyard, |
| 1:46.5 | who, in point of fact, were a right lot of inferior dimwits. |
| 1:51.2 | So the duckling sat in a corner, feeling rather low, till such a brilliant idea occurred to him |
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