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Storynory brings you an audio story every week. Each one is chosen by Prince Bertie the Frog and beautifully read by his friend Natasha Gostwick. Let Natasha's voice beguile you with classic fairy tales, new children's stories, poems, myths, adventures and romance. Another feature from StoryNory.com.
| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urashima | A Japanese fairy tale about a kind-hearted fisher boy who catches a turtle and lets it go free. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:25:15 |
| The Leap-frog | Hans Christian Andersen's short but perfect tale about three animals that have pretentions to marry a princess and "leap" above their stations in life. | Reader: Elizabeth | 00:25:15 |
| The Timeless Beauty | Our Awaking Beauty, Princess Talia, goes out for the first time with her fellow students, and and at least one of them discovers what it must feel like to slip through time. | Reader: Elizabeth | 00:25:15 |
| The Cat that Walked by Himself | Kipling's story, set when people still lived in caves. A clever woman makes a bargain with a clever cat - who will win out? Why cats are so independent and drink bowls of milk, while other animals earn their place by the fire. | Reader: Richard | 00:25:15 |
| When the Sun Hid in Her Cave | A legend from Japan about how the world was plunged into darkness when the Sun goddess sulked. The other gods gathered to remedy the situation, and invented fun and music. | Reader: Elizabeth | 00:25:15 |
| Bertie and the General | Prince Bertie learns some history from an old war veteran, and he proves that even if he sometimes can be a bit spoilt and rude, deep down he has a very good heart. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:25:15 |
| The Princess Who had a Heart | Awaking Beauty Part 4 sees Princess Talia in a new light when her fellow student Sally receives some bad news. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:36 |
| The Desolate Island | A slave asks for his freedom and then sets out on an adventure. This parable from the Middle East has a mysterious and spiritual tone, and is also rather intriguing. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:29 |
| Dido and Aeneas | The Roman legend that packs plenty of adventure and tragic love is acted by Natasha Gostwick and Richard Scott. | Natasha Gostwick and Richard Scott | 00:20:06 |
| The Polite Princess | Princess Talia is a college student who does not seem to fit in. Her friend Sally encourages to watch a football match, and Talia decides that her fellow students could be more polite. | Reader: Elizabeth | 00:11:40 |
| Bertie and the Boot Camp | Natasha tells us how Bertie was sent to an outdoor training "Boot Camp" and survived to tell the tale. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:18:18 |
| The Emperor's Dream | The Emperor of China has such a vivid dream of his true love, that he is able to describe her to an artist who paints her portrait. A courtier then takes the picture of the Emperor's dream girl, and goes out in search of... | Reader: Elizabeth | 00:06:34 |
| Katie and the Invisible Umbrella | Katie - the ordinary witch - takes her grandmother's very far from ordinary umbrella to school, and it is confiscated by a teacher - with unfortunate results. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:53 |
| The Grateful Crane | A story from Japan about a poor farmer who rescues a crane and finds that his luck changes for the better until his curiosity gets the better of him. | Reader: Richard Scott | 00:06:02 |
| The Unpopular Beauty 2 | Princess Talia has woken up somewhat confused. She is a student at an ancient college - but she's not quite sure how she got there. In this episode we will find out how she fits in to her new surroundings. | Reader: Elizabeth | 00:11:25 |
| Awaking Beauty 1 | An update to a very old fairy tale begins a new series about a princess who wakes up as an Oxford student. | Reader: Elizabeth | 00:10:30 |
| Easter 2010 Writing Competition | Winners of our writing competition, along with as many stories and extracts from contestants as we could manage to squeeze in. | Reader: Elizabeth | 00:21:24 |
| Bertie and the Merchant of Palmyra | Natasha returns with a Bertie Story! The King and Queen visit the desert oasis of Palmyra. The Wicked Queen brings back a souvenir that starts to haunt her. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:10:58 |
| The Easter Fair | What could go wrong at the Easter Fun Fair? Well anything could when Uncle Jeff is around. | Reader: Richard Scott | 00:11:15 |
| The Fire-Fly Princess | The Fire-Fly princess has many suitors. She tells them all that she will marry the one who can bring her a flame. A glittering story from Japan. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:11 |
| Noah's Ark | A "vintage" reading by Natasha of Noah's Ark which we recorded in 2007 but have not previously released. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:11 |
| Astropup and the Ship of Birds | Astropup and the Parrot Major have flown into a giant spaceship shaped like a bird. Now they explore the wonderful flying Ship of Birds. Astropup longs for home, but the Parrot wants to stay. | Reader: Richard Scott | 00:12:23 |
| Orpheus | The ancient Greek story of Orpheus the musician, who traveled down to The Underworld to try and bring his bride back from the dead. Told in Bertie's verse. Tragic and sad. | Reader: Richard Scott | 00:08:49 |
| Astropup for Freedom | Astropup is back on the launchpad, but when the parrot takes matters into his own beak, the mission goes horribly wrong. | Reader: Richard Scott | 00:12:31 |
| How The Whale Got His Throat | Rudyard Kipling's Just So Story explains why whales can only eat the very smallest of things. | Reader: Richard Scott | 00:09:27 |
| Astropup Returns | Natasha is taking a break for a few weeks, so say hello to Richard Scott who is reading this adventure about a dog who travels to outer space. | Reader: Richard Scott | 00:15:14 |
| The Vigilante Monkey | Theo the Monkey is outraged by the criminal behaviour of his zoo keeper, Mr. Grabber, and decides to fight for what is right | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:10:41 |
| How the Tiger Got his Stripes | The Year of the Tiger starts of February 14 2010. We mark the Chinese New Year with a legend from Asia about How the Tiger Got His Stripes. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:05:09 |
| Katie and the Cat who Talked | Katie, the ordinary witch, has a cat who can talk. But the cat not only talks, he gossips, and soon Katie finds that she is in trouble with her friends. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:60 |
| King Thrushbeard | By the Brothers Grimm. The tale of a proud and haughty princess who refuses to marry because no man is good enough for her. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:44 |
| Gladys and the Big Deal | Our series about a girl band comes to an end. The chiX dream starts to come true, but they find that fame brings responsibilities and yet more hard work. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:03 |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part Two | Sir Gawain faces must meet his destiny at the hands of the Green Knight on New Year's Day. In the meantime he must overcome a more delicate challenge to his honour. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:19:45 |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part One | An audio drama. King Arthur's noblest knight, Sir Gawain, goes on a quest which tests his honour as much as his valour. Adapted from the Medieval text. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:17:49 |
| The Christmas Cherry Tree | A medieval Christmas story about a knight who was so generous that he gave away almost everything he had. A miracle of cherries out of season restored his wealth. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:31 |
| Christmas in Space | Wicked Uncle Jeff arranges for his relatives to spend Christmas in space. His generosity gives an ordinary family from London a chance to feel the marvel of creation and life at Christmas time. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:23:58 |
| Tyger Tyger Burning Bright | We present three songs by poet, artist, and Londoner William Blake (1757-1827). His Songs of Innocence and Experience were intended to be sung, but the melodies are now lost. Many of his poems see the world with the freshness of a child... | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:03:29 |
| The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor | An Ancient Egyptian tale about a shipwrecked sailor who is washed up on a desert island and meets a giant serpent. One of the oldest stories ever written down, it is really several stories within a story. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:12 |
| The Luck of the Wicked Uncle | Do you believe in luck? The mum in this story does, and her stars say she's going to have a terrible weekend. Uncle Jeff, who is not really wicked, believes we make our own luck, and comes to the rescue. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:15:08 |
| Samson and Delilah | The epic and tragic story of the man who combines the strength of a lion with the sweetness of honey. And of course of Delilah who is his downfall. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:13:31 |
| The Watermelon Prince | A story from Vietnam that tells how the delicious fruit, the watermelon, came to Vietnam. A king adopts a boy who grows up into a wise prince. His bother plots against him and he is banished to an island where he discovers a sumptuous new fruit. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:27 |
| Life is a Circus | A single song by the ChiX, our fictional girl band. This is the chiX first "Single" and their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest - Save it on your iPod - send it to all your friends! | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:03:37 |
| Gladys and the Eurovision Song Contest | The ChiX reach the Eurovision song contest. Includes their song "Life is A Circus" - the climax of our story about a fictional girl band and their brainy younger sister, Gladys. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:24:26 |
| The Wicked Witch of the West | We bring you a single chapter from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. We chose this chapter in the spirit of Halloween - so expect a few scary moments when with wolves, bees, crows, and winged monkeys. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:22:18 |
| The Raven | Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door! Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:08:19 |
| The Wicked Prince | A dramatic story by Hans Christian Andersen about the overbearing arrogance of a prince who wages war on God. A tale of hubris and nemesis. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:08:10 |
| Tim The Tadpole's Exams | Tim the Tadpole is very upset because Colin has called him stupid for not doing well at school. Bertie decides to help Tim with some advice on how to pass exams. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:10:60 |
| The Lioness and Small Respect | Two Aesop fables in one about a lioness - first her encounter with a mosquito, and then with a mouse. Plenty of wisdom to be had from these tales all round. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:05:07 |
| The chiX: First Round | The chiX perform in the first round of the Eurovision Song Contest and find out if they will represent Britain in the final in Istanbul. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:13 |
| The Wizard Who Stole Katie's Spells | We find out the identity of the thief who stole Katie's spell book and did all sorts of bad spells around school. The follow-up to The Witch Who Lost Her Spells. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:49 |
| The Brave Little Tailor | A tailor kills seven flies with one blow and boasts to the world of his strength. And then, by his cunning, he proves to giants and kings that he is indeed able to take on the mighty. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:56 |
| The Nightingale | Hans Christian Andersen's story about how the sweet singing nightingale saves the life of the Emperor of China and succeeds where an artificial bird fails. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:23:38 |
| The Witch Who Lost Her Spells | Katie, the ordinary witch, loses her spell book at school. This is bad enough, but then somebody starts using her spells to play tricks. Of course when magic happens at school, it’s only natural that people blame Katie. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:15:11 |
| The Midas Touch | King Midas entertains a satyr. As a reward he receives a gift - everything he touches turns to gold. He soon learns that the gift is curse. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:06 |
| The Selfish Giant | This classic story by Oscar Wilde is set in a garden that is not unlike paradise. Children play freely among the trees and flowers. And then the owner, The Selfish Giant, returns from a long holiday and drives out the children. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:17 |
| Gladys and the chiX Reunited | Gladys has been the brains and the driving force behind the girl band, the chiX which features her three older sisters. Laura, the lead singer, has walked out, but she’s finding that her solo career is not going well. The chiX have entered... | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:01 |
| Bertie's Car | Prince Bertie was the kingdom's most courteous driver. The Wicked Queen hoped that his ordinary car and slow driving would not impress Princess Beatrice. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:13:54 |
| A Sleeping Beauty Chapter 1 | Storynory's version of Sleeping Beauty introduces a wizard who has a wish for every desire. Chapter will take a radical departure from the original. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:17:48 |
| The Wicked Uncle By the Sea | Uncle Jeff is supposed to be looking after Jeremy and Jemima on the beach. When he falls asleep they find themselves getting entangled in an adventure that gets their uncle into deepest trouble. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:16:35 |
| Gladys and the Solo Sister | Gladys is quite enjoying life after the chiX have split up, but has one more try to persuade Laura to come back to the band so that they can continue their hard work to get to the top. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:08:05 |
| The Journey of Eric and Enide | Eric and Enide set out on their quest across the moors ... but a quest for what? They meet bandits and rivals for the hand of Enide - and only at the end of their journey do they find out what it is they are both seeking. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:18:46 |
| The Quest of Eric and Enide | Enide has married Eric, a knight of the Round Table. Now she begins her dream of living with her ideal knight happily ever after - but will it turn out that way in real life? | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:13:03 |
| The Marriage of Eric and Enide | Eric, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, jousts to prove the beauty of a poor maiden in a simple white dress. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:20:23 |
| Sadie's Broken Heart | Princess Poppy falls into the pond and leaves her crown in the water. Sadie the swan picks it up on her head, and is seen by Prince Boris who is convinced that she is a princess who has been turned into a swan. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:34 |
| The chiX Split | The Girl Band has to get up at 6am every morning to practice. They are becoming tiered and grumpy, and Laura has a new influence in her life. It's becoming hard to hold the band together. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:02 |
| The Wicked Uncle | Mum and Dad are going away for a romantic weekend, and "Wicked" Uncle Jeff is left in charge of the children. A misadventure follows. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:15 |
| The Monkey and the Boar | A story from Japan about a Monkey who has served his master by dancing all his life. Now he is old, his master wants to get rid of him. The monkey consults a wise wild boar about what to do. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:05:55 |
| Gladys and the Big Gig | The girl Band, the chiX have a new manager who fixes up a big concert for them. The chiX start to find out that it's a tough road to the top. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:10:47 |
| Thumbelina | The journey of a tiny, tiny little girl, and how she lives among the birds and animals until finally she finds her heart's true match. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:25:07 |
| My Lord Bag of Rice | A Japanese warrior is enlisted by the Dragon King of the Lake to save his family from a giant centipede. The story tells how the warrior got his strange name, My Lord Bag of Rice. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:14:03 |
| The Fox and the Wolf | A wolf is so hungry that he decides to eat a fox. But the wily and very feminine fox has other ideas. A story from Spain. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:43 |
| Gladys and the Ghost-Girl | This is the third part of our story about girl called Gladys and her three older sisters who are in a girl-band called the Chix. If you heard Part One and Part Two you'll know that Gladys isn't in the band because she's too geeky. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:14:50 |
| The Missing Bunny | A chocolaty mystery story for Easter. The police investigate the kidnapping of a very important missing person. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:14:55 |
| The Merman and the Mermaid | Two poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson that are full of wonderful sounds that will remind you of the ocean. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:04:28 |
| The Blind Beggar of Baghdad | This story from the 1001 nights tells of hidden treasure and magical powers. It will remind you a little of Aladdin, but it's more serious. The Blind Beggar of Baghdad is a warning about how greed can drive you mad. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:18:41 |
| Dede Korkut and the Angel of Death | Dede Korkut was a great warrior who boasted that he could conquer all creation. The Angel of Death visited him to teach him a lesson about the sin of pride, but Dede Korkut won a second chance. A powerful story from Turkey | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:18 |
| The Dragon and His Grandmother | A fairy tale with some tricky riddles | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:49 |
| The White Snake | A servant gains the power to understand the speech of fish, birds, animals and insects. He is kind and does favours to various creatures, and they help him in return. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:15:36 |
| St. David of Wales | The story of St. David, the patron saint of Wales, whose day falls on March 1st. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:03 |
| The Valentine Witch | This is a story about Katie, who is an ordinary girl apart from one thing - she's a witch. One year at school, Katie's teacher was especially moody and grumpy. When Valentine's Day was coming up, Katie and her friend Isis hatched a plan... | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:18:43 |
| The Boy Who Cried Wolf | Aesop's famous warning about a prank that went too far | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:04:28 |
| The Little Mermaid Part Three | The Little Mermaid becomes human and can be near her prince, but she has lost her beautiful voice. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:21:25 |
| The Little Mermaid Part Two | In the second part of this classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid saves a young prince from drowning - but he never has a chance to see that he owes his life to her. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:21:13 |
| The Little Mermaid Part One | The original masterpiece by Hans Christian Andersen. The first of three parts. The story of a mermaid who gave all up for love. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:15 |
| Happy Birthday Storynory | YOU tell us what your favourite stories have been over the first three years of Storynory - and We thank you for listening | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:02:52 |
| Bertie and the Mermaid | The story of why Bertie thinks that Mermaids are no better than sirens. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:24:56 |
| A Christmas Nutcracker | A magical Christmas story with music by Tchaikovsky about the girl's love of a toy that was both ugly and broken - but who turned out to be a true hero. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:20:29 |
| The Wedding of Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren | The ancient verse-story of gallant bird who woos Jenny wren, but whose wedding ends in tragedy. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:08:37 |
| Christmas in Iceland | How a boy called Jason spent Christmas in a very special land where Santa doesn't visit - but where they do have 13 Christmas imps who bring presents. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:25:04 |
| The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse | Aesop's tale that shows that although it's tempting to envy another person's life, their life is rarely as great as it seems from a distance. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:09 |
| The Blind Man’s Daughter | A delightful story from Korea about a girl who was willing to sacrifice everything to help her blind father regain his sight. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:15:38 |
| The Three Sillies | A man goes in search of three people who are bigger sillies than his fiance and her parents. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:13 |
| The Fairies of Merlin’s Craig | Fairies appear to a man digging peat on a Scottish moor. Soon he is dancing to strange music with them. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:08:46 |
| Fidgety Philip | Fidgety Philip won't sit still and he drives his poor parents crazy - a poem by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:03:00 |
| Bertie and the Ghost | When Bertie was still a small prince, his annoying little brother bet him that he would not dare to sleep one Halloween night in the haunted North Tower. Bertie did - and he met a ghost with a strange sense of humour. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:14:30 |
| Baba Yaga - A Scary Story for Halloween | A SCARY STORY for Halloween. Baba Yaga is one of the most famous and frightening witches in all literature. She lives in a strange hut on hens legs. Vasilissa, a young girl, is sent to visit her. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:22:11 |
| Joseph and his Coat of Many Colours | Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers who are envious of his beautiful coat, a gift from their father. He finds himself in Egypt where his fortunes are soon on the rise. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:15:04 |
| How King Richard Met Robin Hood | King Richard is coming to the aid of the Sheriff of Nottingham and intends to capture Robin Hood and the errant knight who has been helping Robin. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:08:19 |
| The Seal Catcher | A Scottish story about a seal catcher who has a chance to speak with one of the animals that he hunts for a living and discovers that seals have feelings just as much as we do. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:06:40 |
| The Golden Arrow | Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest organized by the Sheriff of Nottingham. He should know that it is a trap, but he cannot resist the idea of accepting a golden arrow from the hands of his enemy. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:13:55 |
| Old Sultan | Old Sultan is a faithful dog who has served his master for many years. Now he is old the master thinks there is no need to keep him any more. Fortunately his friend the wolf has a plan to save him. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:55 |
| The Shepherdess and the Sweep | A charming story about two ornaments who fall in love and run away together to the big wide world. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:19:12 |
| The Boy Who Flew Too High | The myth of how Daedalus made wings out of feathers and wax and flew away from imprisonment by King Minos on the island of Crete. His son Icarus ignored his warnings and flew too close to the sun. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:43 |
| Bertie and the Lion | The story of how Prince Bertie kept a lion as a pet when he was a small boy living in the palace, and what happened when the lion grew too big to keep. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:14:35 |
| The Thieving Monkey | Theo is a good monkey - really. He's not nearly so bad as people make out. But when a new keeper is put in charge of the monkey cage, he chooses Theo to help in out with a crime. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:14:12 |
| Tim Learns About the Olympics | A short history of the Olympics as Tim the Tadpole explains how they began in Ancient Greece, and have always held the ideal of peace between nations, though it has been hard to live up to. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:32 |
| Gladys the Music Maker | The second part of the Gladys and the chiX - the girl band has some words for their first song, but no music. Laura says she has a friend in the music business who can help - but will he do all the work for the girls? | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:16 |
| Robin Hood and Maid Marian | Maid Marian is traveling through Sherwood Forest with her family. They are robbed on the way. Later, Marian runs away from home to the woods where she meets - and fights - Robin Hood. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:02 |
| Introducing Twister | The Twister Podcast - Tongue Twisters with Natasha | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:00:44 |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Jack exchanges the family cow for five beans. His mother is furious and throws them out of the window. The beans sprout into a stalk and jack climbs it to the sky and the land of giants. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:14:39 |
| The Sheriff Who Came to Dinner with Robin Hood | Little John is Robin Hood's most trusted outlaw. He wins an archery contest and the Sheriff of Nottingham employs him in his service. Little John swears to be the worst servant he ever did have. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:40 |
| Gladys and the chiX | Three sisters, Mandy, Laura and Sam set up a girl band. Their younger sister, Gladys, is not allowed in the band because she is to geeky - even though she is the one with the best the ideas. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:10:19 |
| The Emperor’s New Clothes | Two rogues come to the court of the Emperor and persuade everyone that they can make clothes that are invisible to anyone who is simple in the head or unfit for their jobs. The whole court praises the beautiful clothes. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:13:47 |
| The Guest of Robin Hood | Robin Hood was the most polite robber in all history. He liked to entertain his victims at his table in Green Wood. In the first of our series, his guest is a sad knight who has fallen on hard times. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:10:28 |
| The Minotaur | How Theseus killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne - an exciting myth from Ancient Greece with some historical background about King Minos and Crete woven in. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:19 |
| The Zoo That Bit Back | The animals at the zoo live a life of luxury until a new head-keeper is appointed. The monkeys must give up their TV, and the Lion has to stay awake in visiting hours. They plot revenge. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:39 |
| Bertie’s Double | The Wicked Queen is determined that Princess Beatrice should marry a rich prince - but Beatrice stays true to her long lost Prince Bertie - then the Queen finds someone who looks just like Bertie. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:19:03 |
| The Hare and the Tortoise | The hare from the famous tale by Aesop tells his version of the race with the tortoise - just in case you thought that he really was slower than his rival. The real winner is the cunning fox. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:09:42 |
| The Golden Goose | An amusing tale about a boy whose parents called him "Dummy" - but he can't have been that much of a dummy because he found a golden goose and made the grandest people of the town look like fools. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:11:41 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Beauty and Beast by Charles Perrault is one of the great romantic tales of all time. With exotic music and sound effects. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:21:06 |
| Lazy Jack | Lazy Jack goes out to work, but he's not used to earning a living, and he gets into all sorts of muddles. An amusing fireside tale from the North of England. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:07:02 |
| St. George And The Dragon | The story of how George saved a town and a princess from a fearful dragon. He is associated with courage and chivalry and several countries have chosen him as their patron saint. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:05:55 |
| The Homecoming of Odysseus | Odysseus returns home 20 years after leaving for Troy. He arrives on his rocky island kingdom of Ithaca disguised as a beggar and finds that his palace is full of suitors wooing his wife, the faithful Queen Penelope. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:22:48 |
| The Brahman, the Tiger and the Jackal | This tale from India is about a good-hearted Brahman - or holy man - who helps a tiger out of a trap. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:06:53 |
| The Ugly Duckling | This is the classic story of somebody who is a "bit different". | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:21:25 |
| The Nose That Ran Away | The strange story of a nose that ran away from its owner, a little girl called Isis. Soon the nose was making havoc all over her school. Only Katie the witch knew the full truth... | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:15:41 |
| St. Patrick | St. Patrick is famous for banishing the snakes from Ireland. But there are loads more legends about Ireland's patron saint who is celebrated with parties and parades on March 17th. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:06:08 |
| The Monkey Who Loved Chocolate | When Theo the monkey tastes chocolate for the first time, he goes crazy for it. He breaks out of the zoo and goes on smash and grab raids across the town. Will there be any chocolate left for Easter? | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:12:54 |
| The Three Little Pigs | One of those stories that you can hear again and again. The wolf huffs and puffs and the three little pigs exclaim by the hairs of their chiny chin chins and only the best built house won't fall down. | Reader: Natasha Gostwick | 00:10:16 |
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