Monkey Liver Soup

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Crocodile is not well, and needs some monkey liver soup to get better. But how can crocodile find a monkey willing to hand over his liver? Crocodile comes up with a cunning plan to trick a monkey – but sometimes even tricksters get tricked! Listen to writer and storyteller Wendy Shearer tell this witty tale from Trinidad and Tobago and enjoy. 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, wise tales from storytellers around the world, which will make you laugh and
0:24.4	sometimes cry. Recommended for ages 5 to 105. I'm Kim and I love stories. Today's story is monkey liver soup.
0:39.8	It's from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean.
0:44.0	And how are you, super great story fans?
0:48.2	I hope you had a happy week.
0:50.7	Here are two reasons to be cheerful.
0:53.4	News just in, we're going to have a live storytelling performance in Hammersmith's Irish Cultural Centre in London.
1:01.8	To celebrate our fifth birthday, hurrah.
1:05.7	It'll be on Saturday, September the 20th.
1:09.5	More details still to come. They'll be on our website, Super the 20th. More details still to come.
1:12.3	They'll be on our website, supergreatkidstories.com, under the news section very soon.
1:20.1	And for those of you around the world who don't live anywhere near London,
1:25.6	Amy Douglas and Jason Buck are putting on a super great kids' stories
1:30.5	online show on Saturday, September the 14th. Me, Amy and Jason will be telling stories on Zoom.
1:40.5	Tickets per family watching cost £12.50. That's about $16.5 US dollars and $23 Canadian dollars.
1:49.0	That's for everyone watching, including your pets.
1:53.0	There are some reduced tickets and discounts for our subscriber families.
1:58.0	You can buy tickets for that now in the new section of our website, supergreatkidstories.com.
2:05.4	The story today is a trickster story and it's told by Wendy Shearer, whose stories are inspired by her family's African Caribbean background.
2:17.4	She told us how Leopard got its spots and a Nancy and the Unknown Challenge.
2:23.1	Her story today is called Monkey Liver Soup.
2:28.4	And it's a teeny bit scary, but not very.
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