Storynory - Audio Stories For Kids
933 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsBeautifully read and written audio stories for kids. The original stories podcast, founded in 2005.
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Jack and the Pirate School Part 3
July 09, 2007 08:58 - 11.7 MBJack is being held prisoner by Captain Blackheart and he can't even tell his parents where he is. He is introduced to Pirate Cuisine on the High Seas, and things go from bad to worse.
Natasha / Alice –
June 27, 2007 13:23 - 21.5 MBTalking of social networks, SKel's myspace page has an interesting project to mix Natasha reading Alice in Wonderland with Technomusic. SKel's also done some out-of-the-way things to Natasha's voice - curiouser and curiouser ! href="http://storynory.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/01-alicetrip.mp3">
Jack and The Pirate School Part 2
June 24, 2007 19:44 - 9.93 MBAlthough Jack is quite a small boy, he likes to be brave, but Captain Blackheart is so very scary that it's difficult for him not to be just a little bit afraid.
The Frog Prince
June 16, 2007 18:36 - 13.8 MBA 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.
Jack and the Pirate School Part 1
June 10, 2007 16:02 - 7.06 MBHave you got your cutlasses ready? And fed the parrot? Jack is supposed to go to sailing school but there's a mix up and he turns up at the pirate school of Captain Blackheart.
Little Red Riding Hood
June 03, 2007 09:04A short and very SNAPPY telling of Little Red Riding Hood that ends very happily FOR THE WOLF ! (you have been warned). It's fun though - and it's the original version.
Tick Tock Turkey and the Mysterious Egg
May 27, 2007 23:43 - 29 MBWe 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 search of sea worms for his Lunchfast.
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 8
May 21, 2007 16:16 - 21.5 MBThe Queen's Croquet-Ground. It is a wonder that anybody is left alive, the Queen is so busy calling for the executioners. The Queen meets her match though in the disappearing form of the Cheshire cat.
Colin: The Grumpy King
May 13, 2007 21:28How 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.
Big Sister’s Clothes
May 08, 2007 23:20 - 15.7 MBThe big sister was called Debbie. And the little sister was called Daisy. Debbie was seven. And Daisy was four. And one day Daisy wished that she could be the big sister....
Androcles and the Lion
April 29, 2007 17:01Aesop's fable of the runaway slave and the lion with a thorn in its paw. A story of gratitude.
The Billy Goats Gruff
April 22, 2007 20:29 - 7.39 MBThree 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 bridge where a hungry troll lies in wait in the ravine.
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.
The Happy Prince
April 05, 2007 16:12 - 31.3 MBOscar Wilde's fairytale of a statue and a swallow is both beautiful and sad. The statue was once a happy prince with no idea that others could be sad. Now that he is a statue, high above the city, he can see that his happiness is not shared by all. A longer story with a moral message - perhaps connected to Easter.
Alice In Wonderland Chapter 7
April 01, 2007 21:42 - 18.1 MBThe 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.
The 12 Dancing Princesses
March 26, 2007 08:06 - 30.2 MBMystery and romance as a poor cowherd solves the mystery of where 12 princesses disappear to at night.
Rumpelstiltskin
March 18, 2007 20:55 - 9.29 MBRumpelstiltskin, magical, wild, and full of rage, comes to the aid of a young girl who is given the impossible task of weaving straw into gold. She makes him a rash promise, which she finds hard to keep.
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 6
March 12, 2007 01:36 - 19.8 MBPig and Pepper. 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.
Tick Tock Turkey and the Disappearing Sandwich
March 04, 2007 13:56 - 21.4 MBThis 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....
Dick Whittington and His Cat
February 25, 2007 13:28 - 21 MBThe 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!
Jeremy Strong Interview
February 18, 2007 18:12 - 14.6 MBThe author of the 100 Mile an Hour Dog speaks to Natasha about what makes him laugh. Storynory Extra visits Reigate Priory Junior School and hears from the best selling children's author, Jeremy Strong. With readings by Natasha from some of his funniest books.
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.
Alice In Wonderland Chapter 5
February 05, 2007 14:27 - 16.7 MBAdvice from a Caterpillar. Our shrunken heroine meets a 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.
Rikki-tikki-tavi Part Two
January 28, 2007 23:42 - 22.8 MBThe plucky Indian Mongoose 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.
Rikki-tikki-tavi Part One
January 22, 2007 00:17 - 22.7 MBThis fabulous story from the Jungle Book is about a mongoose who is adopted by an English family in India. He resolutely defends the boy Teddy from the deadly cobra, Nag, and his wicked wife Nagaina.
In the Cyclops Cave
January 15, 2007 00:13 - 17.5 MBHow Odysseus and his men found themselves trapped in the cave of the terrifying Cyclops, the one-eyed giant. Only one of the famous tricks of Odysseus can save them.
Young Bond Charlie Higson Interview
January 07, 2007 19:15 - 13.8 MBNatasha 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.
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 4
December 31, 2006 20:01 - 28.1 MBThe 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.
Christmas Writing Competition Winners
December 23, 2006 18:24 - 11.9 MBNatasha 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!
A Visit From St. Nicholas
December 17, 2006 18:04Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. No Rudolf but Santa's Reindeer Dasha, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen feature.
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.
The First Christmas
December 04, 2006 16:53 - 8.99 MBJohn 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.
Aladdin’s Lamp
November 19, 2006 21:52 - 24.4 MBAladdin’s Lamp 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.
Shock-Headed Peter
November 13, 2006 00:28 - 8.23 MBWonderfully nasty poems by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann about naughty children who DON'T deserve any presents at Christmas. Four from the collection of little horrors - Shock-Headed Peter, Cruel Frederick, Dreadful Harriet, and Flying Robert.
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 3
November 06, 2006 00:35 - 15.2 MBA Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The Dodo bird is far from dead. 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).
The Wooden Horse
October 28, 2006 19:05 - 11.6 MBOne 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.
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.
Alice, Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears
October 14, 2006 21:56 - 15 MBThe Pool of Tears. 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.
Storynory Christmas Writing Competition
October 14, 2006 21:44Think 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.
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.
The Maiden and the Frog
October 01, 2006 22:00 - 8.24 MBThe classic story of a young girl and a frog who was really a prince under a magic spell. An English version of the the tale - with singing as well as story-telling by Natasha.
Alice, Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole
September 24, 2006 15:06 - 12.9 MBDown the Rabbit Hole. Alice follows a White Rabbit into a hole, and falls down, down, until she lands softly. She finds a bottle with a label Drink Me - and she does. Soon she shrinks.
Troy
September 17, 2006 06:01Although on an epic scale, the Battle for Troy involves some very personal grudges between the warriors. The climax of our story is the showdown between the Greek Achilles and the Trojan Hector.
Harry and Rosie Take A Train
September 11, 2006 13:46Harry 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.
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 Golden Fish
August 27, 2006 17:53 - 26.9 MBA poor fisherman pulls a golden fish out of the sea. When it speaks, he throws it back. His wife is furious, and demands that the magic fish grant them a wish, and then another wish, and then another wish. A story of greed and over-reaching ambition.
Helen of Troy
August 20, 2006 18:08 - 15.4 MBIn Greek mythology, Helen was the most beautiful woman from the age of the heroes. She was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta . After Helen ran away with Paris, prince of Troy, the Greek armies fought a ten year long war against Troy to win her back, as told by Homer. Christopher Marlowe, called her, the Face that Launched a Thousand Ships.
Snow White
July 31, 2006 22:08 - 31.5 MBThe 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 what gives the tale its power.
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.
Water? No it’s Wine! A Miracle
July 17, 2006 17:53 - 3.45 MBPodcast. Jesus proves himself to be the perfect guest when the wine runs out at a wedding in Cana, and produces his first miracle. Read by John Le Mesurier.