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A collection of fairy tales written by the Grimm Brothers.

Grimm's Fairy Tales: The Flounder

The Flounder

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Flounder

Close to destitution, a fisherman sets out to find food.

A destitute fisherman is desperate to bring home food. Then he encounters a flounder. Stars Geoffrey Matthews and Judy Cornwell.

The fisherman and his wife are close to destitution, until the day when he releases a flounder who pleads for his life on the grounds that he’s really an enchanted prince.

When the fisherman's wife realises that the flounder may grant any wish, the fun really begins...

Drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Peter Redgrove.

Starring Geoffrey Matthews as the Fisherman and Judy Cornwell as his wife. 

With Robin Ardra and Phillip Manikum.

Directed at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1987.

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