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Afternoon Reading

Telling the World

Episode 1: The Girl Who Fell

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the world.

Nick Hennessey tells the creation story from the Karelian epic The Kalevala, an ancient myth from the Finno-Ugric people of the Baltic. It starts at the very beginning, with the ocean and the wind.

A Watershed Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. Show less

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