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

July 8, 2025 24 mins

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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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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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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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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May 13, 2025 21 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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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



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Friday Barnes has to help the librarian at Highcrest Academy find a radioactive letter.


If you'd like to get tickets to the book launch for 'Friday Barnes 13, In Plain Sight' here is the link... https://www.theround.com.au/whats-on/friday-barnes-plain-sight-book-launch-show

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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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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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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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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.

If you'd like to pre-order a signed copy of new book EPICALLY GOOD GREEK MYTHS here's a link... https://www.booktopia.com.au/epically-good-greek-myths-r-a...

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