The Night We Killed The Witch

Hansel and Gretel have very different ideas about the gingerbread house in the woods. Gretel gives her version of the Brothers Grimm's fairytale. Written by Angela Readman.

Angela Readman's short stories have won the Mslexia Short Fiction Prize and the Costa Short Story Award, and been shortlisted for the Manchester Prize. Her debut story collection, Don't Try This at Home, won the Rubery Book Award and was shortlisted for the Edgehill Prize. She is also a published poet. Her folkloric poetry collection, The Book of Tides, was published in November 2016.

Writer: Angela Readman

Reader: Bryony Hannah

Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

By Angela Readman. Gretel gives her version of the Grimm fairytale.

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