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Nov 2024
1h 9m

Hercules and the Golden Apples

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Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Alexandra Turney ✍️ Sound design: waves on shore 🌊  Includes mentions of: Bodies of Water, Boat, Fantastical Creatures, Fantastical Elements, Literature & Literary History, Mythology, Helping.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll follow Hercules as he seeks to find the legendary Garden of the Hesperides, where gold ... Show More
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