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The StoryTeller
StoryShort
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. 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.

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  • This episode adapts "The Storyteller at Fault", a folk tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his 1892 anthology, Celtic Fairy Tales. It also includes the "Stone Soup" folkloric motif, identified at tale type 1548 in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index.

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