Looking for the Hidden Folk
The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story
You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.
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Ivory Vikings
- The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
- Written by: Nancy Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Tony Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 1800s, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess...
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Fascinating
- By RW on 2026-03-18
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Ivory Vikings
- The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
- Narrated by: Tony Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-09-03
- Language: English
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$21.89 or free with 30-day trial
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The Far Traveler
- Voyages of a Viking Woman
- Written by: Nancy Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in...
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The Far Traveler
- Voyages of a Viking Woman
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2023-02-28
- Language: English
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$35.34 or free with 30-day trial
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Looking for the Hidden Folk
- How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
- Written by: Nancy Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art—from ancient times to today—Brown finds that each discipline defines what is...
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Looking for the Hidden Folk
- How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2023-02-14
- Language: English
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$21.23 or free with 30-day trial
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The Abacus and the Cross
- The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
- Written by: Nancy Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The medieval Catholic Church was not anti-science during the Dark Ages - in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day.....
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The Abacus and the Cross
- The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2010-12-07
- Language: English
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$21.11 or free with 30-day trial
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The Real Valkyrie
- The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
- Written by: Nancy Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Lu Banks
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriors. In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in...
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Not for me
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-05-23
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The Real Valkyrie
- The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
- Narrated by: Lu Banks
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-30
- Language: English
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$23.95 or free with 30-day trial
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