Most of the fairy tales we know are traditional stories from ancient European cultures that have been passed down from storyteller to storyteller before being recorded in written form. They are ...

Mrs Midas is a poem written from the viewpoint of the wife of the mythological King Midas from Metamorphoses. King Midas was granted a wish whereby everything he touched would turn to gold.

Free Thinking Carol Ann Duffy's Everyman, Clive James Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman. BBC Radio 3 ...