What’s the latest? What’s new? What’s hot off the press? These are, of course, interesting questions when trying to pick a new book to read or movie to watch, but they do imply that anything old is of less value. I disagree. The old stories, though sometimes gone and forgotten, are often the most powerful. In Season 4 of East and Wes, I blow the dust off one of my favorite old texts by reading/performing it, in its entirety, audiobook style. Undine is an 1811 fairy tale by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and is an interesting ancestor of a story most are familiar with, The Little Mermaid. This season premiere introduces the story’s history and author’s bio. The episodes that follow adventure through the book one chapter at a time. George MacDonald called Undine the most beautiful of fairy tales, and I feel confident listeners will find it to be just that.

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