Interview with Adam Field and Matt Hughes for the Grimm Reading Podcast [April 2023]: Cinderella (part 2)

Gessica Sakamoto offers details about the evolution of the different types of Cinderella tale, and what she sees as the core of the story that has made it so important throughout time.

Interview with writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet for his article “Slave, princess, killer: why we underestimate Cinderella at our peril” for The Telegraph (UK) [March 2023]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/ballet/slave-princess-killer-why-underestimate-cinderella-peril/

Gessica Sakamoto offers background on some lesser-known variants of Cinderella and why this fairy tale is such an influential tale.

 Interview with writer and historian Lydia Pyne for her book “Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene”  published by University of Minnesota Press [August 2022]. 

Gessica Sakamoto offers some insights into why fairy tales are so vital to humans and why they have been able to survive for millennia. Lydia Pyne’s book is available to purchase here: http://amzn.to/3QhRWsg

BBC episode “Cinderella: Why Cinderella is such an universal story?” on the podcast program  “The Why Factor” [April 2019]. 

In this episode, Gessica Sakamoto discusses with other guests the reasons why Cinderella has become one of the world’s best-known and most beloved fairy tales. The episode is available to listen on the BBC website. Guests: Gessica Martini – PhD, Durham University| JuwenZhang – Professor of Chinese, Willamette University | Rym Tina Ghazal – Author and Journalist | Ousseina Alidou – Professor of African Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University | Dee Dee Chainey – Author and Co-founder of Folklore Thursday. Editor: Richard Knight | Producer: Tural Ahmedzade.