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Sif and her Golden Hair Loki, god of fire and mischief, steals Sif's beautiful golden hair. In doing so he enrages Sif's powerful husband, Thor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chap 14, Wonderful Wizard of Oz Download the audio, right click, save as We’ve now heard how Dorothy defeated the Wicked Witch of the West, and rescued her companions. In this chapter we shall meet the Winged Monkeys again – and hopefully they will be more friendly this time ! Read by Natasha. You will remember there was no road–not even [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katie and the Big Cat Katie and her best friend Isis go pony trekking on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall in the west of england Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 13, Wizard of Oz Dorothy has defeated the Wicked Witch of the West but her friends have payed a heavy price. Can the Yellow Winkies help her rescue the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie and the Secret Potato A Bertie adventure that takes us to the jungle of Papua New Guinea in search of the secret of eternal youth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Christmouse Mystery A Christmas play set in an English country house and featuring a cast of humans and mice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie’s Lost Christmas It is Christmas Eve. Bertie the frog is performing his stand-up comedy act abroad. He and Tim are delayed by snow when trying to get back to their pond, and end up with in a bus depot with some unlikely characters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fox and the Wolf From the 1001 nights, a tale of a fox and a wolf who are friends - but do not trust each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Bright Aesop Tales The Sun looks down on the earth and sees all the human folly. He tells three tales or "fables": The Milkmaid, Juno and the Peacock, and The Sun and the North Wind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Albert Orangutan Download the Audio (Right Click, Save As) Do you think animals should wear clothes? Let us know when you have listened to amusing poem. It tells the story of Albert Orangutan, who is a very fashionable ape. Read by Richard Scott. Written by Glenn Lawrence for Storynory. Original Pictures for Storynory by Sophie Green. Albert [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astropup and the Key to the Universe Astropup holds the key to the universe in his mouth. Should he share it with the humans? The parrot says that it will bring them great wealth and power if they keep it to themselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portia’s Puzzle A romantic episode from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice which is a little like a fairytale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 12, Wizard of Oz The Wicked Witch of the West sends armies of strange creatures to attack Dorothy and her friends, but they fight back bravely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 12, Wizard of Oz The Wicked Witch of the West sends armies of strange creatures to attack Dorothy and her friends, but they fight back bravely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katie’s Halloween Aunt A witchy Halloween story about Katie, whose Great Aunt Chloe comes to stay for Halloween. Chloe loves to do traditional magical things like flying around on a broom stick. Katie finds it just too embarrassing . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 11, Wizard of Oz At last we meet the Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the Green Emerald City. He appears in three different guises. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Be Scared of Halloween A Halloween Song about Katie the Witch who is scared of Halloween. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chap 10, Wizard of Oz Dorothy and her friends arrive at the Emerald City - so brilliant that they have to put on green spectacles before they enter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Red-Headed League Sherlock Holmes investigates the mysterious league that pays good money to men with red hair to copy out the encyclopaedia. What are they up to? Could there be a criminal plot behind its apparently charitable aims? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 9, Wizard of Oz In which we meet a small but very important person. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 8, Wizard of Oz The scarecrow finds himself stuck up a pole once again and Dorothy and her friends find a new danger in the form of a flower. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emelye’s Tale, Part 3 The final part of Emelye's tale. Is there any room for true love - or for chivalry - in the knight's bitter rivalry over the princess Emelye. And will she have any say in the matter of who marries her? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emelye’s Tale, Part 2 Princess Emelye does not yet realise that she is the cause of a hugh falling out between two imprisoned knights. She has never met either of them, and both have fallen madly in love with her. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 7, The Wizard of Oz Dorothy and her friends confront some terrible beasts called the Kalidahs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emelye’s Tale, Part One The Knight's Tale by Chaucer is retold from the point of view of Princess Emelye - so we have called this story Emelye's tale. Chivalry, Romance, Adventure and perhaps a tiny touch of feminism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nursery Rhymes 2 Rub a Dub Dub, Hickory Dickory Dock, This Little Piggy Went to Market, Little Jack Horner, Here we go round the Mulberry Bush, Ring a Ring a Roses, Oranges and Lemons say the bells of St. Clement's Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chicken Little A fast paced and amusing story - but do be warned - some animals with cute names do get eaten by Foxy-Woxy. Look out for Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey- Loosey and Turkey-lurkey Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventure of the Six Napoleons A Sherlock Holmes mystery in which the great detective investigates why an apparent lunatic is going around breaking up statues of Napoleon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nursery Rhymes 1 Some traditional nursery rhymes packed with irresistible fun and charm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty at the Last Ball The final episode in our story about Princess Talia. Talia, Sally and Basil have tralled through time - but after so many adventures, how will they return to the "real" world ? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katie and the Magic Shop Katie's mum always wanted to open a magic shop. When she achieved her ambition, other shop keepers started to spread nasty rumours about her being a bad witch..... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Animal Riddle Rhymes Download the Audio Here are three charming poems that take the form of riddles. In each one you have to guess which animal we are describing. We hope that you will enjoy them, and perhaps learn a few unusual facts about animals along the way. These Animal Riddle Rhymes have been written especially for Storynory [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 6, the Wizard of Oz Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, and the Scarecrow are on their way to meet the Wizard of Oz. A lion leaps out and chases the little dog Toto. He is ashamed to admit that he is a cowardly lion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty’s Challenge The climax of our Awaking Beauty series in which Basil fights a duel with the champion of Morgan Le Fay in the quad of an Oxford college Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty’s Champion Basil learns to fight with a two handed sword from one of the best in the business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty’s Time Sally is thrilled to meet some famous people and Basil is increasingly alarmed about having to fight a duel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty’s Homeland Basil and Sally wake up in far away place where a miller takes them to a medieval tournament. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rime of the Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge An old Sailer tells the tale of a terrible journey at sea - how he shot a sacred bird the Albatros, and found himself in charge of a ghastly ghost crew. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty and Sir Basil Episode 15 in our Awaking Beauty series. The city of Oxford has fallen asleep apart from a handful of people. Amid the fog Basil meets Talia's fairy godmother who explains a great deal to him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie in Siberia Prince Bertie goes to Siberia in search of a family heirloom, a Faberge egg. On the Trains Siberian Train he meets a mysterious Mongolian Princess. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Kubla Khan The famous poem by Coleridge describes a wonderful palace built by the Mongolian Kublai Khan in Xanadu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty and the Big Sleep Princess Talia's friend Basil finds that some strange and eery things are going on in the City of Oxford Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Camel got his Hump Kipling's Tale from when the world was very new tells how the Camel turned his "humph" into a "hump". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty Departs Will our Awaking Beauty princess Talia leave Westerly College for good? Episode 13 in our series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Samurai and the Tea Master Download the audio This traditional story from Japan is about the time a Samurai Warrior challenged a Tea Master to a duel. It shows how if you are the master of yourself, you can be the master of anything. The steadfastness of the Japanese character has been much on display during the aftermath of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty on Trial Our Awaking Beauty series has reached episode 12 and Princess Talia is brought before the College Authorities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 5, The Wizard of Oz Is it better to have brains or a heart? The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman have different views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Revenge A classic poem about a sea battle with historical notes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty and the Witch Our Awaking Beauty series reaches is becoming tense, and perhaps just a bit creepy... Princess Talia is in trouble at her college for calling the Rector's wife a witch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Daffodils – I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud William Wordsworth's famous delightful spring poem read by Natasha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty and the Tower Princess Talia upsets the Rector of the Westerly College Oxford. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty Under Arrest Princess Talia is in her deepest trouble yet... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wit’s End – Catch Phrase Dan explains the meaning of Wit's End Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katie’s Revenge Samantha plays some mean tricks on Isis who is Katie's best friend. Isis wants Katie to use magic to help her get revenge but Katie can only use her powers for good. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 4, Wizard of Oz The Scarecrow tells Dorothy how it felt to hear and see for the first time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sadko A musical story from Russia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 3, Wizard of Oz Natasha continues to read this famous American fairytale. Dorothy makes a new friend whose head is full of Straw Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 2, Wizard of Oz Dorothy 's farmhouse lands in a strange country where she meets a a witch and some kindly but peculiar people called the munchkins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wenceslas Christmas Carol The traditional Christmas carol that goes with our story of Good King Wenceslas, sung by Gabriella Burnel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swan Song The Song from our Swan Lake Story sung by Gabriella Brunel with words by Bertie for Storynory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter 1, Wizard of Oz Dorothy lives in the midst of the great Kansas prairies. One day the farm house in which she lives is whisked away by a cyclone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good King Wenceslas The story and the music of the Christmas Carol. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swan Lake A magical and Musical story includes a specially recorded song Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bull and the Donkey Download the audio Click to Play, Right Click to Save As Sherehezade is married to the Sultan. All his many previous brides have been beheaded the morning after their wedding. Her plan to stay alive is to keep the terrible tyrant amused with stories, always leaving him wanting more. Her first story is an amusing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Table and the Chair A funny poem by Edward Lear about a Table and a Chair who go out for a walk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Old Man and the Figs A jewish tale, very old, wise and witty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Philosophical Beauty Princess Talia amazes Basil by letting him listen to a conversation with one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katie’s Black Friday A fortune telling craze is spreading through school. Katie warns her friends that predicting the future can be dangerous, and is proved right in this story that is just a little more SPOOKY than usual. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Golem of Prague A Jewish Story for Halloween - not unrelated to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. The Rabbi of Prague made a bogey-man or "golem" which rebelled against him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The White Seal Part Two The second and final part of Kipling's story from the Jungle Book. The White Seal has gone in search of the Sea Cow who can tell him of a land never visited by humans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The White Seal Part One A white seal his horrified to learn that seals are hunted and killed by humans for their skins. He is determined to find a place where seals can live without fear of being hunted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eat You With by SunCrush A song by SunCrush that features a clip of Natasha's voice from Little Red Riding Hood. SunCrush are a super band based in Seattle. This song comes from their album, seven. www.suncrush.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Singing Beauty The mysterious Princess Talia is at a party where she must perform "forfeits" including singing a karaoke song. She does not realise that it is all a plot by her friends to "lighten her up" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tortoise and the Geese A fable from India which shows why it's wise to think before you open your mouth and speak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Strawberries A legend of the Cherokee Indians. The first man and the first woman quarrel, and the sun reunites them with a very special gift. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Strawberries If you like sweet love stories, you will love this tale of the Cherokee Indians. The first man and the first woman quarrel, and the sun reunites them with a very special gift. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astropup and the Invasion of the Bird Brains A fleet of alien birds launches a brave-wave attack against the world. Only a parrot drummed out of the space force can save us all from disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astropup and the Parrot Who Betrayed The World A parrot is put on trial for disobeying orders and jeopardising a critical space-mission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wild Man A wild man of the woods is kept prisoner in a cage in the courtyard of the castle. A boy takes pity on the curious captive, and sets him free - only to meet him again later. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Christmas Beauty Princess Talia has no home to go to at Christmas. Her college friend Sally invites her to her house in Liverpool, where Talia's strange behaviour does not entirely win favour with her family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Remarkable Rocket Oscar Wilde's witty tale about a rocket who is convinced that he is by far the most remarkable firework in the pack. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 1001 Nights How to enchant a terrible Sultan through the art of Story-telling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Thumb An adventurous and amusing fairy tale from England. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urashima A Japanese fairy tale about a kind-hearted fisher boy who catches a turtle and lets it go free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When the Sun Hid in Her Cave An 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dido and Aeneas The Roman legend that packs plenty of adventure and tragic love is acted by Natasha Gostwick and Richard Scott. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie and the Boot Camp Natasha tells us how Bertie was sent to a outdoor training "Boot Camp" and survived to tell the tale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emperor’s Dream Download the audio to your computer (Right Click, Save As) 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Unpopular Beauty 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Easter Fair What could go wrong at the Easter Fun Fair? Well anything could when Uncle Jeff is around. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noah A "vintage" reading by Natasha of Noah's Ark which we recorded in 2007 but have not previously released. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astropup and the Ship of Birds Astropup and the Parrot Major have flown into a giant spaceship shaped like a bird (see Astropup for Freedom). Now they explore the wonderful flying Ship of Birds. Astropup longs for home, but the Parrot wants to stay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astropup for Freedom Astropup is back on the launchpad, but when the parrot takes matters into his own beak, the mission goes horribly wrong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How The Whale Got His Throat Rudyard Kipling's Just So Story explains why whales can only eat the very smallest of things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astropup Returns Natasha is taking a break for a few weeks, so say hello to Richard Scott who will is reading this adventure about a dog who travels to outer space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part One An audio drama. King Arthur's noblest knight, Sir Gawain, goes on a quest which tests is honour as much as his valour. A Storynory Special, adapted for the Medieval text. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Christmas Cherry Tree A medieval story for Christmas about a medieval knight who was so generous at Christmas that he gave away almost everything he had. A miracle of a cherries out of season restored his wealth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas in Space The "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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyger Tyger Burning Bright Download the audio (right click, save as) We present three “songs” by the poet and 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’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 ! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wicked Witch of the West We bring you a single chapter from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by y 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Raven Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!' Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The chiX: First Round The chiX performt in the first round of the Eurovision Song Contest and find out if they will represent Britain in the final in Istanbul Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Nightingale Hans Christian Andersen's story about how the sweet singing nightingale saves the life of the Emperor of China and succeeds where a artificial bird fails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Witch Who Lost Her Spells Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) 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. She must become [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Selfish Giant Download the audio to your computer, Right Click, Save As. 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. But all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gladys and the chiX Reunited Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Sleeping Beauty Chap 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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? 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gladys and the Big Gig 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gladys and the Ghost Girl The girl band story continues. When Gladys has something important to say, nobody seems to listen. She's starting to think that she's a ghost girl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Missing Bunny A chocolaty mystery story for Easter. The police investigate the kidnapping of a very important missing person. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Merman and the Mermaid Two poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson that are full of wonderful sounds that will remind you of the ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Blind Beggar for 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dragon and His Grandmother A fairy tale with some tricky riddles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St. David of Wales The story of St. David, the patron saint of Wales, whose day fall on March 1st. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Valentine Witch Download the audio to your computer This is a story about Katie who is an ordinary girl apart from one thing - she’s a witch. (More Katie stories are here) One year at school, Katie’s form teacher was especially moody and grumpy. When Valentine’s Day was coming up, Katie and her friend Isis hatched [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Valentine Witch Download the audio to your computer This is a story about Katie who is an ordinary girl apart from one thing - she’s a witch. (More Katie stories are here) One year at school, Katie’s form teacher was especially moody and grumpy. When Valentine’s Day was coming up, Katie and her friend Isis hatched [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boy Who Cried Wolf Aesop's famous warning about a prank that went too far Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boy Who Cried Wolf Aesop's famous warning about a prank that went too far Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Little Mermaid Part Three The Little Mermaid becomes human and can be near her prince, but she has lost her beautiful voice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Little Mermaid Part Three The Little Mermaid becomes human and can be near her prince, but she has lost her beautiful voice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Little Mermaid Part Two Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) 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. The Little Mermaid speaks to her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Little Mermaid Part Two Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) 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. The Little Mermaid speaks to her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie and the Mermaid The story of why Bertie thinks that Mermaids are no better than sirens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie and the Mermaid The story of why Bertie thinks that Mermaids are no better than sirens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wedding of Robin Readbreast and Jenny Wren The ancient verse-story of gallant bird who woos Jenny wren, but whose wedding ends in tragedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wedding of Robin Readbreast and Jenny Wren The ancient verse-story of gallant bird who woos Jenny wren, but whose wedding ends in tragedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Three Sillies A man goes in search of three people who are bigger sillies than his fiance and her parents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Three Sillies A man goes in search of three people who are bigger sillies than his fiance and her parents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fidgety Philip Fidgety Philip won't sit still and he drives his poor parents crazy - a poem by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fidgety Philip Fidgety Philip won't sit still and he drives his poor parents crazy - a poem by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Golden Arrow Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest organised 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, Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Golden Arrow Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest organised 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, Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Shepherdess and the Sweep A charming story about two ornaments who fall in love and run away together to the big wide world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Shepherdess and the Sweep A charming story about two ornaments who fall in love and run away together to the big wide world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Learns About the Olympics A short history of the Olympics for Tim the Tadpole explaining 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Learns About the Olympics A short history of the Olympics for Tim the Tadpole explaining 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing Twister The Twister Podcast - Tongue Twisters with Natasha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing Twister The Twister Podcast - Tongue Twisters with Natasha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 up to the sky and the land of giants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Guest of Robin Hood Robin Hood was the politest 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dinosaurs and Bump If you want to know just how cool dinosaurs are, you should listen to this poem by Giles Paley-Phillips. And there's a domestic drama in The Bump in the Rug Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Homecoming of Odysseus Download the audio The final part in our series about the Trojan War brings our ship-wrecked hero, Odysseus back home after 20 long years away. 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Brahman, the Tiger and the Jackal This tale from India is about a good-hearted Brahman - or holy man - who is helps a tiger out of a trap. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ugly Duckling This is the classic story of somebody who is a "bit different". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Nose That Ran Away The strange story of a nose that ran away from its owner, a little girl called Isis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St. Patrick Download the audio of St. Patrick Of all the saints, St. Patrick probably has the biggest celebration. His day is 17th of March and Irish people all over the world mark the day with parades and parties. He is most famous for banishing the snakes from Ireland, and for using the shamrock [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Monkey Who Loved Chocolate Download the audio of the story right click, save as This chocolate-crazed story should get you in the mood for an easter-egg hunt. Look out for a surprise-guest appearance from a famous fluffy animal dear to the hearts of chocolate-lovers everywhere. Jim is one of the very few boys on earth who doesn’t like chocolate. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Three Little Pigs Almost everyone in the whole wide world knows the story of The Three Little Pigs - but it's one of those stories that you can hear again and again. We based ours on the version of Joseph Jacobs in which the wolf huffs and puffs and the pigs exclaim by the hairs of their chiny chin chins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Jumblies This wonderful poem is by the master of sound and nonsense, Edward Lear. It tells the stories of some small people who might have been the Victorian equivalent of the Teletubies ( Their heads are green, and their hands are blue). Like the Owl and the Pussycat, they set out on a poetic journey across the seas. Their craft - a sieve - doesn't sound very seaworthy, but somehow, after 20 years they return to the Land of the Jumblies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Swineherd Download the Audio of the Swineherd By Hans Christian Andersen. This is a prince and a princess story with a difference. The princess is spoilt and unable to appreciate the gifts of natural beauty that her prince sends her. She scorns a perfect rose and a nightingale. Trivial and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St. Valentine St. Valentine was the first person to write a love letter signed "From your Valentine". He did this in prison on the eve of February 14th, in the year 270 AD and this is his story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St. Valentine St. Valentine was the first person to write a love letter signed "From your Valentine". He did this in prison on the eve of February 14th, in the year 270 AD and this is his story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie’s Year of the Rat In the year of the Rat, Bertie gives sanctuary to a special visitor to the pond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chinese Years of the Animals How the Chinese years came to be named after the animals. It was all decided by a swimming contest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Witch Who Got into Trouble at School Katie is an ordinary girl except for one thing - and once she got into big trouble at school, just because she's a witch. An audio story read by Natasha. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Snow Queen Part 3 This third and final part of the story is the most magical yet, taking us across the frozen landscapes of Finland and Lapland under the dazzling Northern Lights - to the palace of the Snow Queen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Snow Queen Part 2 Download the MP3 Audio The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen continues. (Part 1 is here). Gerda goes in search of her friend Kay who has been kidnapped by the beautiful Snow Queen. Her journey brings her to a witch with a lovely garden where it is always warm summer. Gerda [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Snow Queen Part 1 A masterpiece by Hans Christian Andersen, full of the strange beauty of ice-cold winter, and the warmth of true love. Kay is kidnapped by the Snow Queen. His childhood sweetheart, Gerda, goes in search of him, and travels across a magical land scape on a journey which finishes in the frozen North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Elves and the Shoemaker A shoemaker, by no fault of his own, became so poor that at last he had nothing left but enough leather for one pair of shoes. By the Brothers Grimm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin’s Grumpy Christmas A fish wishes to be alone. Santa grants him his wish for Christmas, and then he wonders if peace and quiet is such a wonderful thing after all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Girl Who Missed Christmas Christmas is the happiest time of year, but sometimes something terrible happens - like a kid misses it all together. That's what happened one year to a girl called Natalie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Duck and the Kangaroo A Poem By Edward Lear. "Please give me a ride on your back," Said the Duck to the Kangaroo: "I would sit quite still, and say nothing but 'Quack' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice in Wonderland Message Alice in Wonderland by Storynory now has its own Podcast and iTunes page where you can easily download all the chapter. If you are in iTunes, just search for Alice. Or visit Storynory to subscribe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Six Swans Brothers Grimm. A princess comes to the rescue of her brothers who have been turned into six swans. A vow of silence leaves her unable to defend herself against the most terrible injustice. She has to contend with not only a wicked step-mother, but a wicked mother-in-law too - which is surely less than fair, even by the standards of fairytales. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astropup Part Two Download the MP3 Audio of Astropup Two (right click, save as) The Planet of the Cats. The second and concluding part of our venture into outer space (see part one here). To recap - Bonzo the dog - better known as Astropup - was an ordinary pet dog belonging to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astropup Part One Storynory journeys into outer-space. This out-of-the way travelogue is told in two parts by Bonzo the dog, otherwise known to the world as Astropup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rapunzel This famous story has a number of classic fairy tale themes: the maiden in the tower, the baby taken at birth by a wicked witch, and an enchanted but forbiden garden. In addition it has the iconic image of a maiden lowering her long tresses of golden hair down to her prince, so that he can climb up to her. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: The Rat and The Elephant The Rat And The Elephant in 3D by Be My Friend Animation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Witch Who Was Frightened Of Halloween Katie is a young witch. Her school mates think she is rather odd, and don't really believe that she can do magic. She's afraid of Halloween, because she thinks they will tease her. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice in Wonderland Chapter 10 The lobster quadrille dance is performed by the Mock Turtle and The Gryffon, and there is a song about a fish (a whiting) and a lobster. In short, this is a very strange and quite musical episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tick Tock Turkey and the Endless Pudding Download the audio of The Endless Pudding (right click, save as) By Michael Brett The latest update from Egg Island, home to that greedy, time-traveling bird, Tick Tock Turkey, features Blobert, who on the face of it, is quite ordinary as blobs go. Like many blobs he is quite hard to see [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tinderbox A solider finds a magic tinderbox. When he rubs it, three enormous dogs appear and do any task he requests. Soon he is rich and in love with a princess. This is the first story published by Hans Christian Andersen, and it has much in common with Aladdin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Puss in Boots Puss in Boots has found renewed fame through his starring role in Shrek, but for many centuries he has been well known as one of the most cunning cats in all fairy tale literature. Like all cats though, he is more than just a fluffy bundle of cuddles. He has claws and he uses them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four Aesop Fables A story that comes with a spoonfull of moral medicine doesn't always go down nicely - unless, of course, it's by Aesop. Aesop's fables are loved pretty much everywhere. In these four adaptations the animals themsleves tell you about the lessons they've learned from life in their own voices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Town Musicians of Breman This amusing story by the Brothers Grimm is about four farm animals who are convinced they can earn a good living as musicians. Indeed they do, but it isn't really the sweetness of their barking, braying, mewing, and cockle-doodle-doing, that earns them their supper - it's more the terror of the sound they make ! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: How Old Are You? Bertie the Frog Speaks ! As does Tim The Tadpole, Colin The Grumpy Carp, and Sadie the Swan. In this short animation Tim, who is rather a curious little tadpole, has a very important question. And maybe, just maybe, there's a birthday soon on the pond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack and the Pirate School Part 5 Download Jack the Pirate School Part 5 (right click, save as) At last ! The final part of Jack and the Pirate School is here ! Will Jack walk the plank? Will his toes be nibbled by sharks? Will he live to tell the tale to his dad and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tick Tock Turkey and the Chocolate Tree Download Tick Tock Turkey and the Chocolate Tree (right click, save as) Of all the animals on Egg Island, none of them thought about food more than Tick Tock Turkey. He once made the Best Sandwich Ever, but you have to take Tick Tock Turkey’s word for that – no one else got to taste [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack and the Pirate School Part 4 Download the audio mp3 Jack and the Pirates 4 (right click, save as) We know that Pirate fans have trouble waiting for the latest installment of Jack’s adventures. We are sorry we’ve kept you on tenterhooks, but here it is ! In this episode Captain Blackheart sends a ransom note to Jack’s Dad, demanding [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circe the Beautiful Witch Download the audio story mp3 of Circe (right click, save as) Circe ranks as one of the greatest witches from all story-telling. A beautiful enchantress, she likes nothing better than to turn men into pigs. (Some have seen her as a bit of a feminist). It is only when the wily Odysseus [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice in Wonderland Chapter 9 Download the MP3 Audio of Alice 9 (Right Click, Save Link as) The Mock Turtle’s Story Alice, still holding a flamingo under her arm, returns to the Duchess and is irritated by her sharp chin and her constant refrain, ‘And the moral of that is…’. Next we meet a Gryphon and a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack and the Pirate School Part 3 The eagerly awaited third part of our adventure serial is here: Jack has learned that he is being held prisoner by Captain Blackheart and he can't even tell his parents where he is. In this episode, Jack is introduced to Pirate Cuisine on the High Seas, and things go from bad to worse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: The Pied Piper of Hamelin Ipod Video: A slideshow that syncs the beautiful illustrations of Kate Greenaway with Robert Browning's Poem read by Natasha of Storynory. This version will play on a Video iPod and in iTunes and Quicktime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pied Piper of Hamelin Audio MP3 Version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning - the famous story of the greatest rat-charmer of all time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack and The Pirate School Part 2 Download the audio of Jack and the Pirate School 2 (right click, save as) In the first part of our exciting pirate serial, Jack was meant to go to sailing school, but there was a mix-up at the station and Jack ended up at Captain Blackheart’s Pirate School on board a Pirate Ship. Although Jack is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Frog Prince A beautiful princess loses her ball down the well. A frog offers to fetch it for her, if only she promise that he can be her friend. The princess tries to break her promise, but the frog persists. The Classic story by the Brothers Grimm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack and the Pirate School (1) A pirate story about a boy who is meant to go to sailing school, but ends up at Pirate School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Little Red Riding Hood (Podcast Version) New With Pictures ! Little Red Riding Hood in a new recording by Natasha with Pictures that will sync on your iPod. This famous tale is short but very SNAPPY ! This version should play on your Ipod or in iTunes or QuickTime. If you need the MP3 File, please visit Storynory at: http://storynory.com/2007/06/03/little-red-riding-hood-2/ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tick Tock Turkey and the Mysterious Egg Download the Audio By Michael Brett.  Continuing the adventures of the scruffy time-traveling turkey (see The Disappearing Sandwich). We return to Egg Island to answer the age-old question: which came first, the turkey or the egg? Future Dog and Jen Penguin solve the case of the mysterious egg, while Tick Tock Turkey goes in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice in Wonderland Chapter 8 Alice reaches The Queen's Croquet-Ground where it is a wonder that anybody is left alive, the Queen is so busy calling for the executioners. It's a strange way to play croquet - using live hedgehogs for balls and flamingos for mallets and it's fairly chaotic. The dreadful queen meets her match though, in the disappearing form of the Cheshire Cat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin: The Grumpy King How an exceptionally grumpy fish who lives on the pond with Prince Bertie the Frog was turned into the King for a Day. Download this modern audio fairy story as an MP3 to amuse the kids - and adults too. There's a moral in it somewhere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Sister’s Clothes The big sister was called Debbie. And the little sister was called Daisy. Debbie was seven. And Daisy was four. And most of the time, they were great friends. Even when Daisy broke some of Debbie's toys, she didn't mind too much. And most of the time Daisy didn't mind being the little sister. But just occasionally, it made her very cross indeed. And this story is about one of those days. An audio story for children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Androcles and the Lion Androcles - Aesop's fable of the runaway slave and the lion with a thorn in its paw. An audio story about gratitude. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Billy Goats Gruff Download the Billy Goats Gruff This story from Norway is short but exciting - and ideal for small children (although it’s bit scary!). Three billy goats, each with the same name (Gruff), are on the way up the hillside to eat grass and get fat. On the way they have to cross a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie Writes A Book Bertie has become an author - and here you can listen to the the story of how he came to write his first block-buster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Happy Prince Oscar Wilde's story of a statue and a swallow is both beautiful and sad. We feel it captures much of the spirit of Easter, which is why we are publishing it during Easter week. The statue was once a prince, who was happy, if pleasure be happiness. He lived in a palace surrounded by a walled garden, and had now idea that anybody else could be poor or sad. Now that he is a statue, high above the city, he can see that his happiness is not shared by all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice In Wonderland Chapter 7 The Mad Hatter's Tea Party - one of the most famous of all chapters in children's literature - is here presented in all its wonderful lunacy. A mad March Hare, an even madder Hatter, and a dozy dormouse provide company for Alice at tea table where the party never ceases because time is stuck perpetually at 6pm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 12 Dancing Princesses They led exactly the lives that princesses ought to lead, sleeping far into the morning, and never getting up till mid-day. They had twelve beds all in the same room, but what was very extraordinary was the fact that though they were locked in by triple bolts, every morning their satin shoes were found worn into holes. Mystery and romance. A Free Audio Fairy Story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rumpelstiltskin Rumpelstiltskin by the Brothers Grimm - a free audio stories from Storynory - about the young girl forced to weave gold out of straw and the little man who helped her, and then turned nasty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice in Wonderland Chapter 6 We meet the Duchess, roughly handling a baby who looks like a pig, and the Cheshire cat who likes to vanish leaving only his grin behind. All this and two footmen who look like fish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tick Tock Turkey and the Disappearing Sandwich This is a story about a very odd bird called Tick Tock Turkey, his friend Future Dog, and a sandwich that disappeared, mysteriously, into thin air.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dick Whittington and His Cat The rags to riches story of Dick Whittington and his cat is not just a fairy tale: it is part of the folklore of London. Today there is a monument to his cat near the Whittington Stone pub at the foot of Highgate Hill where Dick sat down and heard the famous Bow Bells of East London ring out: Turn Again Whittington! Thrice Lord Mayor of London! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie Valentine There is a terribly romantic mood on the pond where Prince Bertie the Frog lives. All the pond life are excited by Valentine's day. But nobody is more excited than Bertie. All he has to do, is to lure the Lovely Princess Beatrice Down to the Pond, receive her kiss from her Royal Loveliness, and he will turn back into his true self - a handsome prince. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Chapter 5 Our shrunken heroine meets a languid caterpillar who infuriates her with his curt contradictions. Next she is accused by a pigeon of being a serpent, and Alice is forced to admit that she does eat eggs sometimes, although she insists that she is still a little girl, despite all her changes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rikki-tikki-tavi Part Two We conclude Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of the Indian Mongoose who defends an English family from the evil cobras, Nag and Nagaina. The climax on the veranda where Nagaina confronts the family at breakfast is one of the most thrilling in children's literature - well we think so. And children will strongly relate to the very special pet who faithfully protects a small boy from danger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Cyclops Cave Odysseus, the craftiest man alive, is sailing home from the Trojan war. He and his men go ashore and find a cave, with sheep, goats and cheese. They make themselves comfortable, only to find that the cave belongs to a one eyed giant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young Bond Charlie Higson Interview Natasha speaks to Charlie Higson about his third Young Bond book, Double or Die. Young Bond traces the top secret agent, James Bond, back to his boyhood when he was at the top British public school, Eton. His stories are just as thrilling as the grown-up Bond adventures, but they are aimed at kids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice in Wonderland Chapter 4 The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. Alice tries to help out the white rabbit, but grows so large that she is bursting out of his house. She is besieged by small animals and has a confrontation with a enormous puppy. Nastsha Gostwick continues the story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas Writing Competition Winners Natasha reads two very special stories were written by the young winners of Bertie's Christmas Storynory Writing Competition. As it happens, both stories are about dolls - but the tales are very different. So well done Alisa Pullum and Michelle Dufflocq! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Visit From St. Nicholas The classic Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore, is also known as "The Night Before Christmas". You will hear that Santa hasn't changed a great deal since the poem was written in 1822, expect that he seemed to be 'miniature' back then, and he did not yet have a reindeer called Rudolf, though he did have Dasha, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie Meets Father Christmas The absolutely true story of how Prince Bertie the Frog met Santa Claus and his reindeer. You see, the Lovely Princess Beatrice is most terribly upset after the wicked stepmother cancelled Christmas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Christmas John Le Mesurier tells how Mary gave birth to the baby Jesus in a stable in the time of King Herod. The nativity is undoubtedly THE Christmas story. The Shepherds and the Three Wise Men put in appearences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Learns About Father Christmas Tim the Tadpole has been asking Prince Bertie how old Father Christmas is. Natasha visits the library to find out. According to her reckoning he is 1737 years old. He is of course based on St. Nicholas, who was famous for giving gifts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aladdin’s Lamp Aladdin’s Lamp from the 1001 Arabian Nights is packed with oriental mystique - not one, but two genies, wicked magicians, gold and jewels galore, a palace that is transported through thin air, a beautiful princes, and a poor boy who gets very lucky indeed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shock-Headed Peter These wonderfully nasty poems by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann are about all those naughty children who DON'T deserve any presents this Christmas. We've chosen four from the collection of little horrors - Shock-Headed Peter, Cruel Frederick, Dreadful Harriet, and Flying Robert. Pictures at Storynory.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Getaway by Ed Vere In our first Storynory Extra Natasha meets Ed Vere, an fine artist who writes and illustrates Children's books. Ed's book, The Getaway is about a bandit mouse who is on the run after he broke into Moo O' Sulivan's Cheese Parlour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice in Wonderland Chapter 3 The third chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (we are collecting them all here) introduces us to the Dodo bird who is far from dead, but is enormously pompous. As usual, there are plenty of puns - the mouse tells a very "dry" history to try and dry out Alice and the other creatures who are still wet from swimming in the pool of tears. They run a race (a caucus race is actually an election) and there is a poem that looks like a mouse's tail in the text. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wooden Horse The third in our Troy series. One of the most famous tricks of all time. The war between the Greeks and the Trojans is in its tenth year. The Trojans rejoice when they wake up one day to find that the Greek army has finally departed. They have left behind them a strange gift - a giant wooden horse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice in Wonderland Chapter 2 Alice continues her out-of-the way experience as she stretches like a telescope, and then almost shrinks away alltogether. She has a wonderful conversation with her feet, and she dreadfully offends a mouse. It all ends in tears - so many tears that Alice and the mouse are swimming in them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Storynory Christmas Writing Competition Think up a story that's got something to do with Christmas. Ask mum or dad to help you write it down on the computer. Bertie will pick the best three, and Natasha will read the winning stories here on Storynory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Colin the Carp Became Grumpy Natasha's storytelling has been coming in for some criticism of late, from none other than Colin the Carp (whom all the pond life know to be a particularly grumpy fish). This led to a huge argument on the pond, and eventually, after many protests and demands, Colin was forced to reveal the secret of how he got his grouch. We now exclusively reveal the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Maiden and the Frog The classic story of a young girl and a frog who was really a prince under a magic spell. Story-telling and singing by Natasha Gostwick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - the first chapter, Down the Rabbit Hole. Many parents find that Alice is pretty tricky to read out aloud. We have high hopes that you will enjoy this version by Natasha very much. Free Audio book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Troy This Storynory audio version for children is an extremely compressed retelling of Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, but we've done our best to keep some of its spirit, and in places we've drawn on Samuel Butler's translation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harry and Rosie Take A Train Harry and Rosie are travelling by rail to the English seaside. On board the train, their parents fall asleep. Harry and Rosie go in search of a snack and find an adventure. On the way they confront grumpy buffet attendants and railway officials. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie on Holiday Prince Bertie the Frog has been away this summer, but he was only partly on Holiday. He was on a secret mission to save the honour of the Royal Family. An audio story that will amuse the kids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Golden Fish There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and when he realed in his line, he pulled out a golden fish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helen of Troy The Judgement of Paris of Troy and how he chose Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess. How Paris ran away with Helen, and how the Greeks launched the 1000 ships that started the great Trojan War. Audio Story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim the Tadpole’s Birthday There has been a very special birthday celebration down on the pond today, but there was a huge commotion, and the whole party was almost called off.Tim the Tadpole was whisked away to school by his mummy - who is a green frog, like Bertie, only prettier. It was all very dramatic, but we are glad to say that the story has a happy ending. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ten Commandments At the top of the mountain, God told Moses ten things to remember. They were the ten things that make a good or bad person. They were called The Ten Commandments. This bible story is read in the beautiful tones of the late John Le Mesurier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snow White By the Brothers Grimm Download Snow White The tale of Snow White features one of the most fabulous baddies of all time in the form of the Wicked Queen, vainly peering into her mirror and asking - Who is the fairest of us all? Her motivations of vanity and envy are so very human, and that is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim’s Swimming Lesson Download timsswim.mp3 Download Tim’s Swimming Lesson All the pond life who live with Bertie the Frog agree that the silliest creature by far is Tim the Tadpole. Colin the Carp is always complaining about his silly questions. Even so, the creatures were amazed recently when Tim suggested that all the fishes, frogs, and tadpoles should have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spider and the Fly The Spider and the Fly by Marry Howitt is a poem with a moral and a warning for children. Listen to this dramatic reading by Natasha Lee Lewis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Prince Bertie Ran Away Download How Prince Bertie Ran Away Download How%20Prince%20Bertie%20Ran%20Away.mp3 As everyone knows, before Prince Bertie was turned into a frog, he was a handsome prince. But did you know that before Bertie was a prince, he was a princeling, which is like a prince, only smaller? Up until now, this story has been kept as a closely [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noah’s Ark Noah's Ark will always be the best loved story for children from the Bible. This Free audio dowload from the Old Testement is read by John Le Mesurier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Learns The History of Soccer Download About%20History%20of%20Football%20for%20World%20Cup.mp3 Download the audio story Tim is a very curious Tadpole, and so the other day when Bertie was trying to kick a piece of round slime about, he asked what was the purpose of soccer… As it happens, the most popular game in the world has a long and interesting history. We present a short history [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Creation and Adam and Eve John Le Mesurier reads The Creation and Adam and Eve from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testamant - an charming audio Bible story for Children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Steadfast Tin Soldier This touching story by Hans Christian Anderson relates how a brave tin soldier keeps a stiff upper lip and remains steadfast throughout all his troubles. He is treated unfairly but never complains, and always remains true to the toy ballerina with whom he has fallen in love. A free audio story for children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Poems about Mice Two poems about mice charmingly ready by Natasha Lee Lewis. The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse by Richard Scrafton Sharp. The Mouse and the Cake by Eliza Cook. A Free audio story download for children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gingerbread Man Download the audio storyDownload gingerbread.mp3This is the fast paced tale of the Gingerbread Man who lept out of the oven and ran away. 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Sadie the Swan, who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prince Bertie and the Dragon The children's audio story of how Prince Bertie slayed a Welsh dragon and won the hand of the Lovely Princess Beatrice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership By the Brothers Grimm Download the audio Download catandmouse.mp3 If you have ever been tempted to be greedy, you will have just a little sympathy with the cunning cat of this story, even though she is certainly bad. Every time she thinks about being naughty, she persuades herself with a little excuse that rings true to life. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cinderella From the Blue Fairy Book of Andrew Lang Download the audio Download cinderella.mp3 The stepmother made her do the meanest jobs in the house: the girl scoured the dishes and tables, and scrubbed the bathroom of her Stepmother, and those of her daughters; she slept in a little attic, upon a wretched straw bed, while [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cinderella The classic children's fairy tale of Cinderella told as an audio story that's free to download. From Storynory, the kid's podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie’s Easter Egg Hunt By Storynory Download The Audio Story Download easterhunt.mp3 Bertie looked longingly at the Lovely Princess Beatrice, remembering how he used to stroll with her down to the edge of the pond, and how she would always bring some bread for the Sadie the beautiful black swan and for all the ducks, coots and geese who who would [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertie’s Easter Egg Hunt Download The Audio Story Download BertiesEasterEggHunt.mp3 Bertie looked longingly at the Lovely Princess Beatrice, remembering how he used to stroll with her down to the edge of the pond, and how she would always bring some bread for the Sadie the beautiful black swan and for all the ducks, coots and geese who who would come [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves From the 1001 Arabian Nights Download the Audio Story Download Alibaba_and_the_Forty_Theives.mp3 IN a town in Persia there lived two brothers, one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. 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The cat was constantly with her, and ran after her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kissa the Cat From The Brown Fairy Book of Andrew Lang Download the audio story Or use the play button to listen now. Download kissa.mp3 Once upon a time there lived a queen who had a beautiful cat, the colour of smoke, with china-blue eyes, which she was very fond of. The cat was constantly with her, and ran after her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Owl and the Pussycat By Edward Lear Download the audio poem Or use the play button to listen now: Download owlpussycat.mp3 I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note. 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Colin the Carp, who lives in the pond with Bertie at the bottom of the garden, as been going around whispering things [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Prince Bertie became Bertie the Frog By Storynory Download the audio story here Or use the playbutton to listen now: Download bertie.mp3 Up until now, it has been a bit of mystery as to exactly how Prince Bertie was turned into a frog. Colin the Carp, who lives in the pond with Bertie at the bottom of the garden, as been going around whispering [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Favourite Stories By Storynory Download the audio or use the play button to listen now Download favouritestories.mp3 And now for something slightly different. What are your favourite stories? Hugh, who is a friend of Bertie and Natasha, visited the Downs Church of England Primary School in the South East of England to find out what the favourite stories of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack and the Beanstalk Part Two Download the audio here or use the play button to listen now: Download jackbean2.mp3 Jack made another journey up the Beanstalk to the castle of the gaint, one day while his mother had gone to market, but first he dyed his hair and disguised himself. Once again he visited the giant’s caslte. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack and the Beanstalk Part Two Download the audio story here or use the play button to listen now: Download jackbean2.mp3 Jack made another journey up the Beanstalk to the castle of the gaint, one day while his mother had gone to market, but first he dyed his hair and disguised himself. Once again he visited the giant’s caslte. 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There had been a hard winter, and after it the poor woman had suffered [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Elephant’s Child From the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling Download the audio here. Download elephant.mp3 IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he could not pick up things with it. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Elephant’s Child From the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling Download the audio story here. Download elephant.mp3 IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. 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