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Best of Super Great Kids' Stories - Anansi and the Hot Pepper Soup

Super Great Kids' Stories

Super Great Kids' Stories

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This is a: 'Best of Super Great Kids' Stories' selected from our Archive. Anansi the spider is up to his tricks again. In order to win the King's gold, he has to eat a large bowl of super hot pepper soup. Will he outwit the king and the other competitors? Listen to Tuup telling this lively song-story from West Africa and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, super great grown-ups. This episode is sponsored by Indeed. If we needed a new storyteller, I'd go to Indeed and be very specific. I'd say, I want a storyteller from East Asia who has good English and two years experience telling traditional tales in schools. And with Indeed's sponsored jobs, I'd get several people who fit that

0:22.4

description. So I wouldn't be sifting through CVs of people who've acted in adverts and recorded

0:28.4

their own audiobook. No, I'd get the real deal like Toop or Kate Corcori. Plus, with indeed

0:34.9

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0:40.8

whenever you need to find good people fast. Listeners of this show will get a £100 sponsored

0:47.2

job credit to help get your job the attention it deserves. Just go toindeed.com slash super great right now and support our show by saying

0:56.6

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1:05.6

do it the right way with Indeed.

1:24.0

Well, hello, super great kids.

1:29.4

This story is a selection from the Best of Super Great Kids stories.

1:36.2

We're releasing one popular story from our archive in the middle of each month on a Wednesday.

1:43.5

This episode is Anansi and the Hot Pepper Soup and it's retold by Toop. It was released in February 22.

1:48.2

It's our little trickster gift for you. It's got a Nancy the Spider and a song in it. And lots of you say it's one of your favorite stories.

1:57.9

It's featured in our Super Great Kids Stories book and it's a big hit with everyone.

2:04.4

If you like this story from our archive, there are over 150 more stories like this, which are

2:11.1

available to all our owlets and subscribers. Happy listening. Welcome, welcome, welcome, each and everyone to super great kids' stories.

2:25.9

I would like to share with you all an Anansi story. Anansi is half man and half spider as he chooses.

2:37.0

He's the original Spider-Man.

2:41.0

There are many stories about Anansi, and here is one of those.

2:48.0

One day, a Nancy, who is a trickster, heard that the king was holding a competition to see who could drink

3:00.3

hot peppered soup, hot, spicy hot, with so many red peppers and hot in temperature, hot enough to burn any mouth.

3:15.7

Whoever could drink all of the hot peppered soup would win a shanty gold.

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