1 - The Idle City

What better way to start a series celebrating storytelling than a story by an author whose works inspired the likes literary titans like Tolkien and Le Guin? In this tale by Lord Dunsany you'll visit a ancient city with a security system that would make One Thousand and One Nights proud. It's stories within a story in The Idle City.

The Idle City  (1910) by Lord Dunsany
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel

Music featured (in order of appearance):
Japanese Suite, Op. 33 (1915) by Gustav Holst
The Planets - Neptune, the Mystic (1915) by Gustav Holst
A Somerset Rhapsody, Op. 21 (1907) by Gustav Holst
St Paul’s Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 (1922) by Gustav Holst
Symphony No. 8 Movement 2 (1890) by Antonín Dvořák