How the Lion Got His Roar

Super Great Kids' Stories

Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Stories For Kids

4.5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Lion’s voice is soft and quiet. This makes it tricky for the animals to know when lion is out hunting, and keep safely out of his way. So they need to find a way to get lion to roar. But no animal is brave enough to sort the problem. …. no one that is except for Unogwaja the trickster rabbit who comes up with a perfect plan. Listen to Gcina Mphlope tell this animated story from South Africa and find out how rabbit saves the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories.
0:17.6	Wise tales from storytellers around the world, which will make you laugh and sometimes
0:23.9	cry. Recommended for ages 5 to 105. I'm Kim and I love stories. Hello, super great kids. Today we have a Zulu story from South Africa called How the Lion Got Its Raw.
0:44.0	And it's told by Nguyenat and Floppe, who told you the Queen of the Tortoises.
0:51.7	How are you, super great kids? I hope you've had a happy week. I'm very happy because
0:58.1	it's nearly September and that is our special month where we launch our super great book in the UK.
1:06.4	And it's the first book we've ever published, so we're feeling very happy about that.
1:13.0	And another reason to be cheerful
1:15.1	is that lots of you have been helping us
1:17.8	by pre-ordering our super great book,
1:20.5	which is very kind of you.
1:22.5	It puts a skip in our walk and a wagging our tail,
1:25.2	so thank you all.
1:27.2	And for those of you in North America and in Australia,
1:31.6	the book is also going to be published in November and December,
1:36.4	and we're hoping that other publishers all around the world will follow soon.
1:41.7	And as if that isn't happy enough news,
1:48.1	September is also our birthday month,
1:55.2	party time. We get to celebrate five years of sharing traditional tales on our podcast. And we're putting on a birthday show spectacular here in London at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith on September the 20th.
2:06.6	Plus, we're going to have an online show with Jason Buck and Amy Douglas so we can meet story fans from around the world.
2:15.2	And that is on September the 14th.
2:17.3	So we look forward to meeting some of you
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