Rapunzel

Stories for Robots · Oct 29, 2026 · 26m · transcript

Rapunzel, adapted from the Brothers Grimm's 1812 original (plus the ending of Giambattista Basile's even older Petrosinella) and told to two silly robots hearing it for the first time. A funny storytelling podcast for kids 5 to 11 and their grown-ups.

A craving for a sorceress's lettuce costs a couple their baby. Then come a tower with no door, 70 feet of hair, the world's slowest escape plan, and a prince who lands in a rosebush. Vector wants to know how much lettuce a baby is worth. The older version ends in a chase with magic acorns that Vector calls the 1600s version of a high-speed car…