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Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages

Nian the Beast

Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages

Stories Podcast

Stories For Kids, Fiction, Kids & Family

4.313.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The story that inspired the tradition of Chinese New Year. Nian the Beast has been terrorizing a small village, and it's up to one young girl and a wise old man to save the day. Support the show at patreon.com/stories

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Prime members!

0:01.8

You can listen to Stories Podcast, add free on Amazon Music.

0:05.9

Download the app today!

0:07.4

Hello!

0:08.6

Welcome to Stories Podcast.

0:10.3

I'm your host, Amanda Weldon.

0:12.8

Today's story is Nien, the Beast of Chinese New Year, an adaptation of the origin story

0:17.8

of Chinese New Year by Daniel Hines.

0:20.5

Today we'd like to say a special thank you to Austin, Sloan and Debbie and their family.

0:26.0

Si and Vir and their family, Evie, Nola and Clara and their family, and Jack and Marin

0:33.0

and their family.

0:34.7

Thank you so much, Marin, Jack, Clara, Nola, Evie, Vir, Si, Debbie, Sloan and Austin.

0:42.5

You are part of what makes it possible for us to continue to produce fun news stories

0:46.6

for our listeners.

0:48.5

If you'd like to support the show, you can go to patreon.com slash stories.

0:53.3

And since we've had some questions, here's how it works.

0:56.5

Pledge just one dollar a month to get all the episodes add free and perks like early

1:01.1

looks at episodes and the story's songs album.

1:04.2

Pledge $5 a month to get all those perks plus a thank you in a future episode.

1:09.5

Pledge $10 a month and get all the perks, a thank you in an episode and will ship you

1:14.5

a beautifully illustrated version of our logo as an 8x10 poster.

1:19.3

You can see what it looks like and make your pledge at patreon.com slash stories and

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