Click here for the full list). Every working morning ... and one of Robert Browning’s best-known poems, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. And although each writer tinkered with the story, the basics ...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the title character of a German legend. When I was a schoolchild in the UK, my classmates and I had to learn a wonderful dramatic rhyming poem about the Pied Piper off ...

The severity of the problem is dramatically portrayed by this line from the poem: “They [the rats ... and the end of all dictators. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is alive and well in our practice ...

But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone ...

It was the 19th Century poet, Robert Browning, who popularised the German story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin in the English-speaking world. The real piper arrived in 1284... His poem tells of a ...

In this modern adaptation of the classic The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the town of Hamelin struggles with a rat infestation. Led by their mayor, the people of Hamelin employ several tactics to get ...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin on BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC ... In the 16th century, the story was expanded into a full story - that of the poem , in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the ...