Episode 103: A Story Short

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. 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

External links

• Tough Pigs: "Tales, You Lose"

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