Musical Storyland - The Stone Cutter
CBeebies Radio Podcast
BBC
3.4 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The Stone Cutter is unhappy with his humble job and wishes for greater things in life. His wishes come true! But after experiencing life as a rich man, a king and more, he eventually realises that his life as a Stone Cutter was not so bad after all and he makes his final wish.
Musicians from the BBC Philharmonic are joined by Molly Rainford and guest tabla player, Kuljit Bhamra, to share a musical re-telling of this cyclical tale which is told in India and many other countries.
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| 0:00.0 | Come to a magical place of fairy tales and adventure. |
| 0:11.0 | Let the music take you far away to musical Storyland. Welcome to Musical Storyland with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. My name is Molly and these are my friends and their musical instruments. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, I'm called it and I play the violin. |
| 1:18.6 | My name is Kenny and I play the oboe and the corongle. |
| 1:31.3 | I play the oboe of the Stonecutter, a tale that is told in India. |
| 2:09.6 | Once upon a time there was a stone cutter. Chick, chick, chick, chick, |
| 2:12.6 | when his tools, as day after day he chipped away at the bottom of the mountain and filled his basket with stones. |
| 2:24.3 | One day the stone cutter saw a rich man mounted on the back of a horse. |
| 2:33.3 | I'm tired of being a hard-working stone cutter, he thought. |
| 2:37.0 | I would be much happier if I was a rich man, riding my horse wherever I choose. |
| 2:44.0 | The stone cutter closed his eyes and wished that he was a rich man. |
| 2:58.6 | When he opened his eyes, the stone cutter's wish had come true. |
| 3:09.3 | Chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, |
| 3:12.3 | stone cutter, stone cutter, what do you see? |
| 3:15.3 | Chick, chick, chick, chick. |
| 3:18.3 | I'll be a rich man, that's what I'll be. |
| 3:22.3 | The stone cutter was now a rich man, riding his horse through the town. |
| 3:29.0 | He heard the trumpet of elephants and saw a king sitting on a throne underneath a huge umbrella. |
| 3:38.0 | He thought, I shouldn't be a rich man. |
| 3:42.3 | I should be a king sitting in the shade. |
| 3:52.1 | The rich man closed his eyes and wished that he was a king. |
| 3:58.3 | Yeah. closed his eyes and wished that he was a king. |
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