Henny Penny (England) and The Silly Hare (India)

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week we’ve got not one story but two. The first one is Henny Penny about a chicken who’s hit by an acorn and decides the world is coming to an end. The story is all about what happens on her way to tell the King. Listen to Rachel Murray telling this fun English version of an old tale. And then you can hear the original Indian version of the story - The Silly Hare. It’s one of the Jataka Tales which are an ancient form of Bhuddist teaching stories – similar to Aesop’s Fables. A little hare is sitting underneath a tree when a coconut falls next to him. Listen to Kim telling this version. There are plenty of differences for you to spot, but can you work out the message which they are both bringing?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories, wise tales from storytellers around the
0:20.6	world, which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.
0:25.4	Recommended for ages 5 to 105, I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:33.4	Hello super great kids, how are you? I hope you had a happy week.
0:39.4	My friend gave me a whole heap of apples from her tree this weekend, so I've been
0:45.4	making everything I can think of with apples. Apple crumble, baked apple, apple pie,
0:50.4	even pumpkin and apple soup, scrum diddlyumptious.
0:55.4	Now, it's another two stories week, one from England and one from India.
1:03.4	First, we hear the story about a daft hen who is most upset when an acorn
1:09.4	falls out of a tree and hits her on the head.
1:12.4	While we have a quick word with the grown-ups, can you think of any stories
1:17.4	which have trees in them? Here's one to start you off, the magical tree from East
1:24.4	Africa, which two per tells. Are you ready? Go.
1:30.4	Hello super great Kim. Hello super great David. Kim, I have a question.
1:35.4	I love questions far away. What is the best kind of story?
1:39.4	Well, I think the best kind of story is an old story which has been told for many
1:45.4	years and passed on from person to person. Oh, that's a good answer.
1:49.4	I thought you're going to say something specific like only Baba Yaga stories or a Nancy
1:53.4	stories or stories that have to have two head of giants in them. No, just a story
1:58.4	which has been loved and passed along and told by lots of people.
2:02.4	Right, okay, so if we really want more people to hear stories, seems like we're
2:07.4	going to need help from our lovely listeners. Yes, we know these stories
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