The StoryTeller
Air Date	January 22, 1988
Written by	Anthony Minghella
Director	Charles Sturridge

A Story Short was the only episode of The StoryTeller that focused on the Storyteller as the main character. In it, the Storyteller was to tell a king 365 different stories 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.

CastEdit

• 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

External linksEdit

• Tough Pigs: "Tales, You Lose"

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