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Episode Notes
This episode, “The Truth About Cats and Dogs,” is based on a story found in The Alphabet of Ben Sira. The Alphabet of Ben Sira, though technically an anonymous text from the Middle Ages, was likely written by the scholar and scribe Ben Sira, who lived in the 2nd century BCE.
To learn more about the Ben Sira texts and to see copies of original manuscripts, visit: https://www.bensira.org/index.html
Episode Credits
Have I Got a Story For You is a production of PJ Library
Executive producers: Meredith Lewis, Alli Thresher
Director: Alli Thresher
Additional production: Craig Rossein
Website design: Christina Rizer
Audio editing, mixing and mastering: Peter Moore
Theme music: Penelope Alizarin Conley
Score: Peter Moore
Recorded at Palace of Purpose Studios in Malden, MA.
Cover art: Barb Bastian
This episode was written by Naomi Shulman and Alli Thresher
Cast:
Narrator, Rita Toomey: Madelaine Ripley
Cat: Rich Wentworth
Dog: Deirdre Wade
Adam: Rich Wentworth
Eve: Rachel F. Hirsch