Best of Super Great Kids Stories - Finn McCool and the Giant's Causeway
Super Great Kids' Stories
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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 |
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| 1:26.5 | Hello and welcome to the best of super great kids stories. |
| 1:29.9 | We're releasing one popular story from our archive in the middle of each month. The story this month is Finn McCool and the Giant's |
| 1:37.8 | Causeway and it's told by Kate Calkery. Today it's St Patrick's Day which is a big celebration in Ireland and beyond. |
| 1:49.2 | It began as a religious festival but it now celebrates all things to do with Ireland. There are |
| 1:55.9 | parades, people dressed up in green, some as fairies, some as leprechauns, and there's Irish music and traditional food. |
| 2:04.7 | If you have connections with Ireland, you might be celebrating St Patrick's Day too. |
| 2:10.3 | This story from our archive is a trickster tale and also a how and wise story. |
| 2:17.2 | It explains how some people say that the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland came to be. |
| 2:23.3 | The Giant's Causeway is a staircase of huge rocks stretching far out into the sea. |
| 2:30.3 | These steps are flat, eight-sided shapes and they look as if they've been chiselled out of rock by a clever giant craftsman. |
| 2:40.2 | There's a couple of scary giants in this story, so you need to be a little bit brave to listen, but it's also great fun, so do give it a go. |
| 2:49.2 | Now, here is Kate Corkery telling a story which was featured on the podcast on the 17th of March 2022. |
| 2:58.6 | Over to you, Kate. |
| 3:00.6 | Hello, super great kids. |
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