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May 2024
52m 45s

Hercules and the King’s Stables

Slumber Studios
About this episode

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧

Writer: Alexandra Turney ✍️

Sound design: crickets 🌾

Includes mentions of: Food, Animals, Fantastical Creatures, Horses, Literature & Literary History, Mythology. 


Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, Hercules' task is a little different to those that have come so far as it involves… cleaning. And it’s going to be a clean-up of epic proportions, as the king’s stables are home to thousands of divine cattle. 😴


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