The North Wind and the Sun: Aesop

Greek language school student Maximos. Source: Katerina Poutachidou/Pixabay:kie-ker

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Year 9 students from the Greek Community of Melbourne's Balwyin school unit, are performing the radio-theatrical version of Aesop Fable "The Sun and the North Wind", as part of SBS Greek podcast series "Students and Children Perform Roles in Front of a Microphone".

The North Wind and the Sun is one of Aesop's Fables. The moral it teaches about the superiority of persuasion over force has made the story widely known.

The story concerns a competition between the North Wind and the Sun to decide which is the stronger of the two. The challenge was to make a passing traveler remove his cloak.

However hard the North Wind blew, the traveler only wrapped his cloak tighter to keep warm, but when the Sun shone, the traveler was overcome with heat and soon took his cloak off.

"Students and Children Perform Roles in Front of a Microphone". Every Wednesday on SBS Greek Radio. Source: SBS Greek

Greek language school student Giorgos. Source: Katerina Poutachidou

Greek language school student Maria. Source: Katerina Poutachidou

Greek language school students, Maria, Giorgos and Maximos. Source: Katerina Poutachidou

The wind attempts to strip the traveler of his cloak and the sun persuades the traillustrated / Milo Winter /1919 Aesop anthology: The North Wind and the Sun. Source: Wikipedia