Bertie Stories
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 147 ratingsBertie is the guiding spirit of Storynory. Once he was a prince. Now he's a frog who tells stories.
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Birdy’s Christmas Puzzles
December 12, 2023 21:22Jake is hoping to go to Lapland for Christmas to see Santa, but it all depends on some precarious family finances. The answer lies in a series of puzzles. Can Jake's best friend Birdy, a smart crow, help him and his family to go on this special treat?
Beatrice and the Un-Golden Fish
September 12, 2022 15:30 - 221 BytesThe young Princess Beatrice saves an un-golden fish. The fish grants her three wishes. She is torn. Should she make unselfish wishes for the world? Or think of herself? A funny fairytale from our Prince Bertie series. In the real world, we extend our respects to Her Majesty the Queen who lived unselfishly and with enormous dignity.
Bertie and the Magic Seal
September 07, 2021 16:27Once upon a time, when we started Storynory back in 2005, our main character was called Bertie. He’s a royal prince, who was once turned into our frog. That’s why Storynory’s mascot is a little green frog wearing earphones. After a long time away on holiday, Bertie is making a return in this story. He’s in his human form, but he’s still friends with all the pond life, including Colin the Grumpy Carp.
Astropup in Gone with the Wind
July 10, 2019 12:07We continue our Love Story in Space. The Parrot and Astropup have plucked a red rose from the Planet of the Cows for the Parrot to give to his beloved, Polly. Unfortunately the bulls who guard the sacred rose have a very blustery response.
Bertie and Beatrice’s Dreams Part 2
March 30, 2017 14:33We continue the story of Bertie and Beatrice's dreams. Beatrice has called off the wedding, left the palace, and gone to live in the town and look for a job. How will the ex-princess get on in the "real world"?
Bertie and Beatrice’s Dreams
March 22, 2017 15:10Prince Bertie and Princess Beatrice have very different dreams leading to trouble in the palace.
Tim the Tadpole’s Birthday
January 04, 2015 09:15We first recorded Tim the Tadpole's Birthday way back in 2006, but somehow the mp3 file was overwritten and lost. Now, for the first time in some years, we present this sparkly story in its entirety.
Bertie in the Land that Time Forgot
September 23, 2014 11:14iPads and Mobile phones - they are necessary for life - how can anybody survive without being connected to the internet 24 hours a day. And yet Bertie and Beatrice visit a land where technology is banned. How do they get on.
Bertie and the Frog Princess
June 23, 2014 11:47What would it be like to be a frog? Have you ever wanted to be one just for a day?
Bertie’s Magic Pancakes
February 24, 2014 12:35Shrove Tuesday has a special tradition at the Palace that dates back to the days of Bertie's true mother who is remembered for her magic pancake recipe.
Prince Bertie Returns
December 10, 2013 11:31Spooky, exciting, dramatic, romantic, funny - the most epic Bertie story ever ! Bertie has spent eight long years as a frog on the pond. Is this the story where he turns back to a prince? The only way to find out, is to listen to Natasha and Richard's special performance recorded for Christmas 2013
Bertie’s Quest
May 27, 2013 15:32It is soon to be Beatrice's Birthday and she asks him to go on an impossible quest, to find her a living dinosaur as a pet.
Colin’s April Fool
March 04, 2013 22:56The grumpiest fish on the pond plays and April Fool joke - but is it funny?
Bertie and the Queen’s Confession
August 08, 2012 08:54The Wicked Queen has confessed everything. She had recorded the story of how she turned Bertie into a frog. The cassette tape has gone missing. Bertie MUST get hold of it.
Bertie and the Secret Potato
January 01, 2012 23:27A Bertie adventure that takes us to the jungle of Papua New Guinea in search of the secret of eternal youth.
Bertie’s Lost Christmas
December 12, 2011 14:41It 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.
Bertie in Siberia
May 03, 2011 11:00Prince Bertie goes to Siberia in search of a family heirloom, a Faberge egg. On the Trains Siberian Train he meets a mysterious Mongolian Princess.
Bertie and the General
June 21, 2010 02:03Prince 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.
Bertie and the Boot Camp
May 16, 2010 15:36Natasha tells us how Bertie was sent to a outdoor training "Boot Camp" and survived to tell the tale.
Bertie and the Merchant of Palmyra
March 27, 2010 22:38Natasha 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
Tim The Tadpole’s Exams
September 21, 2009 21:56Tim 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.
Bertie’s Car
July 14, 2009 15:18Prince Bertie was the kingdom's most courteous driver. The Wicked Queen hoped that his ordinary car and slow driving would not impress Princess Beatrice.
Sadie’s Broken Heart
May 24, 2009 16:52Princess poppy falls into the pond and leaves her crown in the water. Sadie the swan picks it up on her head, and is seen by Prince Boris who is convinced that she is a princess who has been turned into a swan.
Bertie and the Mermaid
December 22, 2008 08:15The story of why Bertie thinks that Mermaids are no better than sirens.
Bertie and the Ghost
October 19, 2008 20:50When 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.
Bertie and the Lion
August 18, 2008 12:59The 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.
Bertie’s Double
May 25, 2008 12:23The 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.
Bertie’s Year of the Rat
January 27, 2008 07:28In the year of the Rat, Bertie gives sanctuary to a special visitor to the pond.
Colin’s Grumpy Christmas
December 09, 2007 21:01A fish wishes to be alone. Santa grants him his desire for Christmas, and then he wonders if peace and quiet is such a wonderful thing after all.
Three Short Bertie Stories
November 18, 2007 08:47Three short and slapstick pond-life stories compiled from the early days of Storynory. Notable for the voice of Rob playing Colin the Carp and Barker the Dog.
Agent Bertie
September 16, 2007 18:45You will only hear this on Storynory because it's Top Secret. Natasha exclusively reveals that before Bertie was turned into a frog, he worked as a Secret Agent.
Colin: The Grumpy King
May 13, 2007 20:28How an exceptionally grumpy fish who lives on the pond with Prince Bertie the Frog was turned into the King for a day and tried to ban football. There's a moral in it somewhere.
Bertie Writes A Book
April 14, 2007 07:32Bertie has become an author - and here you can listen to the the story of how he came to write his first block-buster.
Bertie Valentine
February 11, 2007 14:33All the pond life are excited by Valentine's day. But nobody is more excited than Bertie the frog. All he has to do, is to lure the Lovely Princess Beatrice Down to the Pond, receive her kiss from her, and he will turn back into his true self - a handsome prince.
Bertie Meets Father Christmas
December 10, 2006 20:11The absolutely true story of how Prince Bertie the Frog met Santa Claus and his reindeer. The Lovely Princess Beatrice was most terribly upset after the wicked stepmother called off Christmas, and Bertie just had to cheer her up.
Halloween on the Pond
October 23, 2006 08:55This a rather scary story, particularly if you are a very small tadpole. Halloween is the most frightening night the year, or it is the most scrummy night of the year, depending on whether you are on the right or wrong end of a trick or a treat.
How Colin the Carp Became Grumpy
October 08, 2006 11:35After a huge argument on the pond Colin the Grumpy Carp was forced to reveal the secret of how he got his grouch. We now tell the story. Get your hankies ready, because this one is a real tear jerker.
Bertie on Holiday
September 03, 2006 17:11 - 27.9 MBThe lovely princess Beatrice is on holiday - but she can get no rest because she is constantly being photographed. The newspapers back home are saying some really rude things about her. Bertie is shocked and comes to the rescue.
The Sweetest Princess Competition
July 24, 2006 17:14When Beatrice was just a teenage princess in training, she entered The Sweetest Princess Competition. Up until now, the inside story has been kept secret, but Sadie the Swan has persuaded Bertie to reveal all.
Tim’s Swimming Lesson
July 10, 2006 20:38The pond-life were amazed when Tim suggested that all the fishes, frogs, and tadpoles should have swimming lessons. In fact, Colin the Carp said that was the silliest thing he had ever heard.
How Prince Bertie Ran Away
June 18, 2006 21:46About the time when Bertie was a just a small prince-ling and he decided to run away from the palace. He finds that the world outside can be quite rough when nobody knows that you are really a royal in disguise.
Prince Bertie and the Dragon
April 24, 2006 20:33How Prince Bertie slew a Welsh dragon and won the hand of the Lovely Princess Beatrice. An adventure from the time before Bertie was turned into a frog.
Bertie’s Easter Egg Hunt
April 02, 2006 20:03The annual Easter Egg hunt in the Palace Garden is heading for disaster, and Prince Bertie the Frog is about to take the blame for eating the eggs belonging to the children.
How Prince Bertie became Bertie the Frog
February 12, 2006 23:10The story that sets up the Bertie series. How and why Prince Bertie was turned into a frog by the wicked step-mother of Princess Beatrice.
Bertie’s Christmas Storynory
December 20, 2005 13:49Written by Bertie Read by Natasha This is the very first Bertie story - from Christmas 2005. . Now, this morning it is a bit cold in this part of the world. Mr Frosty has been to visit, and the vegetable patch is white and glistening. There is ice on the pond. “Brrrr,” said Colin the […]