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

May 31, 2023 19 mins

Dad is excited to get Dame Bronwyn's autograph. Fin gets to work on the giant potato. And Loretta races Pumpkin for the local paper so she can find out who her competition is.

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Fin is run over by the giant potato. 

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The President of the Country Women's Association orders the Peski Kids to fix the giant potato. And it's time to make nominations for the title of Potato Princess.

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Mum is spotting enemy agents all over town, Daisy Odinsdottir is nearly killed by a giant paper mache potato and the Peski Kids are summonsed by the CWA. 

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Mum struggles to adjust to life in Currawong, another crazy festival is starting up and Joe is grieving for his favourite breakfast.

Please Note: I am re-posting this episode because when I first posted it I accidentally hit the explicit content box. There is nothing inappropriate in the episode. I was just tired when I uploaded the file. It's very hard to uncheck a box once it goes out to all the different podcast di...

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This episode features the final three chapters from book 4. It wraps up the story from this book and sets up the beginning of book 5.

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April 19, 2023 18 mins

The Peski Kids try to hijack the bus back.

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April 12, 2023 22 mins

The bus gets hijacked. Dad rescues Mum.

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Fin's head is still stuck in a dinosaur, and now that dinosaur has been knocked over by a bus. Meanwhile, Dad and Ingrid are breaking into a secret maximum security prison somewhere in Eastern Europe.

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The T-Rex has crashed over the top of the school bus, Joe has sprained his ankle and April has to stop Mr Lang from driving off before Fin is decapitated. Meanwhile Mum and Dad are breaking into a maximum security Kolectiv prison.

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Fin is attacked by a dinosaur, which is quite something given that the dinosaurs are models made of fibre glass.

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Dad and Ingrid fly to Eastern Europe. The Peski Kids explore the dinosaur park in the middle of the desert.

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March 8, 2023 26 mins

April takes on the Bilgong rugby team so she can go on the excursion to the dinosaur park with Joe, Fin and Loretta.

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Loretta starts at Currawong High. Dad and Ingrid go to the city for a romantic mini-break. And April gets in trouble for breaking the captain of the rugby team.

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The Peski Kids try to hurry home to check on Dad, but their worst nightmare comes true when the only one to offer them a lift is Professor Maynard. Then Loretta has some good/bad news of her own.

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Dad's wedding to Ingrid is interrupted by an unexpected arrival. The Peski Kids find out they are going on a strange school excursion.

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February 8, 2023 31 mins

When Nanny Piggins takes Samantha to get her hair cut the day before School Photo Day, things go horribly wrong. But it's nothing a little light kidnapping can't fix.

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My new book, 'Friday Barnes, Last Chance' came out this week, so for this episode of the podcast I read the first two chapters from the book. I don't want to do any spoilers but basically her trip to Paris has been delayed because of a medical emergency, and she is really keep to get there and catch up with Ian and the case of the missing Mona Lisa.

If you want to buy a copy here's a link to Book Deposi...

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January 25, 2023 21 mins

Nanny Piggins tells the true story of Bramwellio, the boy made of chocolate and Geppetto the master chocolatier who created him. 

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When they are stuck on the train platform waiting for the next train, Nanny Piggins tells Boris and the children the story of the first labour of Hercules when he had to kill the Nemean Lion. And how it did not quite go that way, thanks to Nanny Piggins distant relative – Iolaus Piggins

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