255-Chinese Folklore: Picture Me This

👞Goria the shoemaker has a bad boss👞 Is his boss the devil? Literally...well, no. Is the devil that Goria meets in a bar actually better than his boss? 100% yes.😈 The Creature: Jack-in-IronsA creature who made it a bad thing to walk around threatening people with a spiky club ...  Show more

🐺Inside each of us there are two wolves. They are named 'Shifty' and 'Freaky'.🐺 Which one wins? Well it doesn't matter because they're both demons so maybe try to starve both of them out. Or spit in their faces and steal their name tags, like Sun Wukong does. No wrong answers b ...  Show more

Narrator: Elizabeth 🇬🇧 Writer: Jessica ✍️ Sound design: gentle birdsong 🐦🌺 Includes mentions of: Animals, Children, Romance, Death, History   Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll learn all about the incredible life of the writer and illustrator, Beatrix Potter. Through h ...  Show more

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Laila Weir ✍️ Sound design: cosmic space sounds 🛰️ Includes mentions of: Outer Space, Science & Nature, History.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight's episode takes us through perhaps the greatest historical journey that there is - the story ...  Show more

Narrator: Elizabeth 🇬🇧 Writer: Laila ✍️ Sound design: quiet street ambience, distant bell 🏘🔔 Includes mentions of: Walking, History, Military History, Beverages   Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we return to the beautiful, historic city of Bordeaux in France to continue e ...  Show more

His eyelids. He cut off his eyelids. But that is not all that the Daruma (Bodhidharma) is famous for. He's the man who brought Chan to China and Zen to Japan. Some say he taught the Shaolin monks how to fight while other tales talk about how he invented green tea, or well, his ey ...  Show more