Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt
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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 b...
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'Odysseus and the Fatal Cows' as told by Nanny Piggins
When Odysseus and her men are stranded on the Island of the Sun they find it incredibly difficult to resist eating the cows, with terrible consequence...
'Odysseus, the Whirpool and the Six-Headed Monster' as told by Nanny Piggins
Odysseus has yet another really bad day on his incredibly long journey home to Ithaca. This time his men have just about had enough.
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'Attack of the Killer Sirens' as told by Nanny Piggins
When Hans cupcakes "call" to Nanny Piggins on their morning bus ride, she explains how this is exactly like the Sirens from the Ancient Greek Mytholog...
'The Legend of Tam Lin' as told by Nanny Piggins
When the children go a geography excursion, Nanny Piggins warns of the dangers that lurk within forests. It's not wild animals or huntsmen she's conce...
'1001 Arabian Cakes' as told by Nanny Piggins - Rerun
I'm on tour in Emerald, Central Queensland this week so I'm playing this classic episode. I hope you enjoy it. It's reminded me I should do a few more...
'Romeo and Juliet' as told by Nanny Piggins - Rerun
Because I'm finishing up my next book 'Romeo v Juliet' I need to play a rerun this week, so I'm posting Nanny Piggins version of the great Shakespeare...
'The Sinking of the Vasa' as told by Nanny Piggins
Nanny Piggins tells the tale of how the Vasa, Sweden's great 17th century warship, managed to sink in the first thirty minutes of it's maiden voyage,...
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.
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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....
'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' ange...
'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, Nann...
Friday Barnes and the Case of the Deadly Beans
You can get my new audiobook using any of these links...
Spotify
Audible
Apple Books
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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 autho...
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 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.
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 anc...
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 chap...
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...
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...
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 competit...
'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 N...
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 adult...
'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.
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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 th...
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 read...
'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 take...
'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",...
'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 Nan...
'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 ex...
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...
'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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