Ep 4: A Short Story. The Storyteller recounts a time in his life when he came upon a castle as a beggar and upon being caught making a fool of the royal cook he risks being boiled alive. However the Kind decides a different punishment - he must come up with one story a day for a year to win his freedom. All goes well until the very last day when he suffers from storyteller's block...
Starring John Hurt as the eponymous storyteller, the other cast in this episode are Brian Pringle, John Kavanagh, Brenda Blethyn, Richard Vernon, Sarah Crowden, Jackson Kyle, Arthur Hewlett, Alistair Fullarton and Tony O'Leary.
