Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
The celebrated author Marina Warner talks about the means in which stories and fairy tales have been passed from generation to generation in cultures all around the world. In particular how animal fables written from people who are oppressed can be a means to address the people who are in power and reflects on the different approaches that can be used to tell these stories.
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