web01.fireside.fm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:05:35 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Global Storytime Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “India” https://globalstorytimepodcast.fireside.fm/tags/india Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:45:00 -0700 Welcome to the Global Storytime Podcast! Every two weeks I release a pair of episodes that help us explore another corner of the world. The first episode is a story from a different country or culture that is perfect for listeners young and old. The second episode shares the history, languages, favorite foods and sports, and more from the country or culture featured. So grab a blanket, a stuffie, or a cup of tea and settle in for our journey. Are you ready? Let's go! en-us episodic Folktales from around the world. World Wise Kids Welcome to the Global Storytime Podcast! Every two weeks I release a pair of episodes that help us explore another corner of the world. The first episode is a story from a different country or culture that is perfect for listeners young and old. The second episode shares the history, languages, favorite foods and sports, and more from the country or culture featured. So grab a blanket, a stuffie, or a cup of tea and settle in for our journey. Are you ready? Let's go! no World Wise Kids dianedeette@gmail.com 1. Grandma and the Great Gourd https://globalstorytimepodcast.fireside.fm/grandmaandthegreatgourd 4b62bcd5-ade8-4c04-be06-a055738b4eae Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:45:00 -0700 World Wise Kids full World Wise Kids 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. 20:32 no 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 globalstorytimepodcast@gmail.com. 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 india, bengal, folktale 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 globalstorytimepodcast@gmail.com.

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

]]> 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 globalstorytimepodcast@gmail.com.

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

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