A passing queen hears a daughter being beaten, she intervenes and whisks her off to the royal palace. Setting her a spinning challenge, the girl loses all hope before three mysterious women come to her aid...

In the three spinners, a lazy girl has the chance to escape poverty, will she find her way out of a life of spinning?

After the story, we discuss the importance of spinning through history and the surprising incarnations of the three spinners through time.

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Theme music: Bicycle Waltz by Goodbye Kumiko

Other music: Handel's Messiah, 1st Movement performed by the MIT Concert Choir, Cutter // Haydn's Symphony No. 101 in D major (Hoboken 1/101) - 2nd movement: "The Clock" performed by Amigos do JPC with Pedro Carlos Silva, violin