Episode 103: A Story Short

"A Story Short" was the only episode of The StoryTeller that focused on the Storyteller as the main character. The Storyteller was to tell a king 365 different stories, one for each day of the year, or be boiled by a cook. On the final day, with no story, a mysterious beggar gives him a story he will never forget.
==Cast==
*Bryan Pringle as Cook
*John Kavanagh as Beggar
*Brenda Blethyn as Storyteller's Wife
*Richard Vernon as King
*Sarah Crowden as Queen
*Jackson Kyle as Prince
*Arthur Hewlett as Page
*Alistair Fullarton as Hare
==Notes==
*This episode adapts "The Storyteller at Fault", a folk tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his 1892 anthology, Celtic Fairy Tales. It also incorporates the folk tale "Stone Soup."
==External links==
*Tough Pigs: "Tales, You Lose"
*Joseph Jacobs' rendition of the story
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