Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt

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 years of being a children's author, typing away in my office with only my goldfish for company, I was bursting to tell my stories out-loud and with lots of silly voices! So please - sit back, get comfy and enjoy some amazing, some silly and some just plain ludicous tales direct from my imagination to you.

Episodes

August 5, 2025 27 mins

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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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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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You can get my new audiobook using any of these links...

Spotify

Audible

Apple Books

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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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 mad...

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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...

https://open.spotify.com/show/2tWR42TFmVGOBQUf1p3AT0?si=728a785045ce4a53

https://books.apple.com/au/audiobook/friday-barnes-2-under-suspicion/id1814026447

https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Under-Suspicion-Audiobook/B0F8HL...

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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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you liv...

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June 17, 2025 23 mins

Odysseus travels across the sea to Hades to find out from a prophet what he must do to get home to Ithaca.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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Friday gets her Mum out of jail, then is herself sentenced to babysitting duty.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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May 20, 2025 25 mins

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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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May 13, 2025 22 mins

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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you l...

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Nanny Piggins tells the story of her fabulously talented distant cousin, who was so good at cake decorating she caused the invention of spiders.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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April 29, 2025 18 mins

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.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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Nanny Piggins recalls the time she was banned from the Hermitage Museum for attempting to eat a historic artefact.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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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 ou...

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When Odysseus's men are turned into monsters, he has to go and rescue them from a staggeringly beautiful and evil enchantress.

I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

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Nanny Piggins continues the tail of Odysseus' journey home from Troy. 



I'll be performing 'Christmas Stories with R.A. Spratt this year at the Glen St Theatre in Sydney, The Belco Arts Centre in Canberra and The Theatre Royal in Hobart. Tickets are on sale now. If you live nearby I hope you can come!

If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe!

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