Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt
This is a weekly podcast of funny stories for kids. There are side-splitting versions of my own fractured fairy tales. Also short stories from some of my best-selling books, featuring characters from 'The Adventures of Nanny Piggins' and 'Friday Barnes, Girl Detective'. The stories are perfect for bedtime, long car rides or even if you're just stuck waiting a really long time at the doctor's office. They're written for 7-11 year olds but these are tales the whole family can enjoy. The silliness is ageless. I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoy recording it. After...
Part 2 - Nanny Piggins and the Ominous Sounds
Nanny Piggins is convinced she's over heard a terrible crime, everyone else is convinced she's made a dreadful mistake.Â
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Nanny Piggins and the Ominous Sounds
When Nanny Piggins sustains an ankle injury, reading too many detective novels leads her believe she has witnessed a murder.
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'Rama and the Unbendable Bow' as told by Nanny Piggins
When Michael falls in a ditch, Nanny Piggins is remind of the time one of her distant relatives was found in a ditch in the Ancient Indian Story days.
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'Psyche and the World's Meanest Mother-in-Law' as told by Nanny Piggins
When the children rush home after a marbles tournament on their bus goes awry, Nanny Piggins finishes her tale about Psyche and Cupid, and Venus' anger management issues.
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'The Legend of Psyche' as told by Nanny Piggins
When Michael's woodwork teacher accuses him of having a deranged psyche for inadvertently creating a too accurate replica of the statue of David, Nanny Piggins explains who the first Psyche really was. As it happens it was a distant relative of hers.
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Friday Barnes and the Case of the Deadly Beans
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Reload for Spotify listeners - 'Friday Barnes 2, Under Suspicion'
Spotify blocked this episode when it dropped on Wednesday. They were worried I was infringing on the author's copyright, but of course, I am the author. I own the copyright. I have the right to record and publish it. Usually this is easy to fix, because Spotify sends me a link so I can get the episode reinstated. But the link doesn't work. I've been messaging with Spotify trying to fix this for five days and have made no progress. So I'm going to see if reloading the episode works. If you've already downloaded this episode on another platform...
Friday Barnes 2, Under Suspicion - Wrongly Accused
To promote the release of my latest audiobook 'Friday Barnes 2, Under Suspicion' I am reading the first two chapters of the book. If you'd like to buy the audiobook to hear the rest, here are some links...
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'The Time Thor's Hammer Got Stolen' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the story of what really happened when Thor's hammer got stolen and how her distant relative Bramwell Loki Piggins was involved.
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Friday Barnes and the Case of the Vegetable War
When Friday finds Binky in New York, he has got himself in a spot of bother involving two senior citizens and a fight about vegetables.
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'The Origin of Thor's Hammer' as told by Nanny Piggins
After using a hammer to assist a neighbour in getting into their home, Nanny Piggins tells the children the story of her distant relative from the ancient Norse Mythology days - Loki Piggins and how Thor's hammer came to be made.
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Odysseus and the Day Trip to Hades
Odysseus travels across the sea to Hades to find out from a prophet what he must do to get home to Ithaca.
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Friday Barnes and the case of the Kidnapped Princess
This is a live recording from The Round Theatre in Melbourne where I launched my new book FRIDAY BARNES 13, IN PLAIN SIGHT. I read the first five chapters to the audience.
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Part 2 - Friday Barnes and the Case of the Dangerous Tablecloth
Friday gets her Mum out of jail, then is herself sentenced to babysitting duty.
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Friday Barnes and the Case of the Dangerous Tablecloth
This week I read Chapter 10 from 'Friday Barnes 12, Collision Course'. Friday rushes to Switzerland to help her mother who has been arrested, but she ends up getting arrested herself.
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Nanny Piggins and the Eggs - Part 2
After working hard all week at egg spinning, egg protecting and egg dropping, Nanny Piggins and the Green children test their skills at their school's annual egg festival.
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Nanny Piggins and the Egg Challenge
It's Egg Week at Derrick, Samantha and Michael's school. Each of them has to perform a different egg based challenge. Technically, it's not a competition. And yet, Nanny Piggins is determined to see that each of them win.
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'Aranche, Athena and the Origin of Spiders' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the story of her fabulously talented distant cousin, who was so good at cake decorating she caused the invention of spiders.
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'Noah's Ark' as told by Nanny Piggins
One rainy day, after Mrs Lau's fishpond has overflowed, Nanny Piggins tells the story of Noah's Ark which she just happens to know all about because Noah was a distant relative of hers.
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Holiday Rerun - Nanny Piggins and the Last Cake of the Romanovs
Nanny Piggins recalls the time she was banned from the Hermitage Museum for attempting to eat a historic artefact.
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Holiday Rerun - Nanny Piggins and the Ghosts of Easter
Every Easter Nanny Piggins goes on a shameless chocolate eating frenzy. Her Easter egg guzzling is so out of control it frightens children, and adults and even the Police Sergeant. So Derrick, Samantha and Michael come up with an idea to convince their beloved Nanny to behave better, just this once. They visit her in the night dressed up as the ghosts of Easter past, present and future. Will she reform her ways? Listen and find out!
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'Odyssseus and the Evil Enchantress' as told by Nanny Piggins
When Odysseus's men are turned into monsters, he has to go and rescue them from a staggeringly beautiful and evil enchantress.
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'Odysseus, the Giants and the Evil Beauty' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins continues the tail of Odysseus' journey home from Troy.Â
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Friday Barnes and the Case of the Dangerous Letter
Friday Barnes has to help the librarian at Highcrest Academy find a radioactive letter.
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'The Legend of the Giant's Causeway' as told by Nanny Piggins
When Samantha is taught at school that the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland was caused by volcanic rock, Nanny Piggins tells her the real story that involved two giants.
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Epically Good Greek Myths - Recording from the Livestream Book Launch
This is the live recording from the Book Launch for my latest book EPICALLY GOOD GREEK MYTHS. It was a lot of fun. I did a live reading, answered readers questions and explained the origin story of the book.
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'Fin McCool and the Fire Breathing Fairy' a told by Nanny Piggins
At the age of ten years old, Fin McCool decides to become the leader of a band of warrior hunters. No one else thinks this is a good idea. So Fin takes on a fire breathing fairy to prove herself.
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'Odysseus and the Bag of Wind' as told by Nanny Piggins
When the retired army colonel who lives around the corner (and is deeply in love with Nanny Piggins) asks Derrick not to "let the cat out of the bag", this triggers a discussion about a much worse thing that Odysseus let out of a bag several thousand years ago.
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'Huengbu and Nolbu' as told by Nanny Piggins
When a vindictive game of monopoly leads to financial ruin, a broken leg brings unexpected good fortune in the form of a pumpkin. At least, that's Nanny Piggins' version of events according to her relatives who were there at the time.
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'Odysseus and the Cyclops' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the tale of what really happened to Odysseus when she was trapped in a cave with a hungry Cyclops and nothing to defend herself except a jug of chocolate milk.
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Friday Barnes and the Case of the Bunya Bunya Pine
When the school caretaker is knocked out by a giant pine cone, Friday suspects that something more sinister may have happened.
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'The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Nymph' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the children why they should always be concerned if their clothes go missing, in case it is a repeat of a traumatic incident that happened to one of her distant relatives in the Olden Korean story days.
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'The Salmon of Knowledge' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the children about her distant Irish relative who derived their super power of wisdom from sucking their thumb.
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'Odysseus and the Lotus Eaters' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins begins the story of the Odyssey, starting with the tale of the Lotus Eaters and how they nearly derailed Odysseus' homeward journey with a slice of sticking date pudding.
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'Odysseus' as told by Nanny Piggins
After Michael has a strange conversation with the driver of his school bus, Nanny Piggins explains who Odysseus was and how the word 'odyssey' was named after them.
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Holiday Rerun - 'The Story of Hanukkah' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the story of how the celebration of Hanukkah started. It involves a distant relative of hers, a catapult and a lot more sticky date pudding than has been previously revealed.
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Holiday Rerun - 'The First Christmas' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the story of the first Christmas and what really happened in that stable in Bethlehem all those years ago, which she knows because a distant relative of hers just happened to be there at the time.
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Holiday Rerun - Nanny Piggins and the Christmas Carol Showdown
When Nanny Piggins discovers that Nanny Anne has secretly formed a choir, and without inviting her, she vows to beat her arch-nemesis in competitive Christmas carol singing.
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Holiday Rerun - 'Saturnalia and the First Christmas Cracker' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the story of how the first Christmas cracker was invented back in the time of Saturnalia, the Winter Festival celebrated in Europe in the time before Christmas.Â
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Holiday Rerun - Nanny Piggins and the Santa Photos
When Nanny Piggins discovered the cost and quality of Santa photographs she is outraged. So naturally she takes over the whole operation and does a much better job.
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