What's the Story? with Gillian and Shana

What's the Story? with Gillian and Shana

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What's the Story? with Gillian and Shana episodes

  • Paw Prints of Thieves

    Joe works outside the system to donate leftover cafeteria food to a food bank, but there's a little more red tape than he expected. He's just like Robin Hood, who steals from the rich to help the underprivileged in The Adventures of Robin Hood, by Robert Pyle, 

    1 hr
  • Bark to the Future

    Joe struggles to succeed in a math unit about fractions and percentages, reminding us of math tests from our past. Wishbone travels thousands of years into the future in The Time Machine, by HG Wells.

    1 hr 10 min
  • The Pawloined Paper

    Gillian shares her forays into competitive forensics (it has nothing to do with murder). We discuss Joe's extremely 90s not-at-all secret crush on his history teacher and solve the mystery of The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe. 

    51 min
  • The Canine Cure

    Joe's classmate Nathaniel spends the night with the Talbots, and Wishbone might be added to his long list of allergies. We also see a fantastical and comical adaptation of the play The Imaginary Invalid, by Molière. 

    48 min
  • Mixed Breeds

    Wanda is infatuated with a new man and seems to reject her blossoming relationship with the kids' teacher Mr. Pruitt. We also see an adaptation of the story of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. This episode features our guest Jess! Content warning: suicide (at end of book and discussion thereafter)

    1 hr 2 min
  • One Thousand and One Tails
    Guests Dilpreet and Parth join Shana to delve into the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from 1,001 Arabian Nights. Meanwhile in Oakdale, David gets caught up in stolen money shenanigans... on the internet.
    1 hr 23 min
  • Hot Diggety Dog
    Wishbone leads the kids on a journey to a piece of Oakdale history. Jules Verne tries to lead us on a Journey to the Center of the Earth. Only one of these stories makes sense. Content warnings: hospitalization of family members, death of a spouse (fictional)
    1 hr 8 min
  • Frankenbone
    David is very secretive about his science fair project on the secret of life. He needs to watch out for what Dr. Victor Frankenstein completely missed when his experiments went exactly as he wanted in Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.
    1 hr 15 min
  • A Tale of Two Sitters
    Join Shana and guest host Dr. Sarah as Wishbone encounters two very different perspectives on "supervision" in Oakdale. He also transports us to Paris and London for A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Content warning: discussion of rape in the original book (after episode recap portion)
    1 hr 21 min

About What's the Story? with Gillian and Shana

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Step back in time and into a book with Wishbone, our favorite literate talking dog. This American public television series from the 1990s was our introduction to famous Western literature and common…