The King's Storyteller

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Queen has died, so her son becomes the new King. But who will tell the King stories at bedtime now that the Queen has gone? In this moving story from Scotland retold by storyteller Amy Douglas, we hear about the King's quest to find a new storyteller - with an upbeat twist at the end of the tale.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories, wise tales from around the world which will
0:20.6	make you laugh and sometimes cry, recommended for ages 5 to 105.
0:28.4	I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:31.8	Hello super great kids and how are you in this sunny month of September?
0:37.4	This is the second story for this weekend and a royal bonus story.
0:43.0	If you're in the UK, you're probably getting a day off school tomorrow because of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth
0:49.8	who served Britain and the Commonwealth for over 70 years.
0:53.8	There'll be lots of horses and carriages and cannons and trumpets and choristers and soldiers dressed in red and black.
1:00.2	But we thought we'd mark the occasion, you guessed it, with a wise little story about a king, a queen and a prince.
1:10.8	It's a little bit sad because just as Queen Elizabeth has died, the king and the queen in the story die, but it does have a happy ending.
1:21.2	And for those of you who don't feel like listening to a slightly sad story, Amy Douglas, our lovely story teller, has also recorded a trickster story.
1:30.8	So, the story today is the king's story teller.
1:35.2	It's a tale Amy heard from a well-known Scottish traveler called Duncan Williamson.
1:41.2	I wonder if you can think of any stories with kings, queens, princes or princesses in them,
1:47.8	while we have a quick word with the grown-ups.
1:52.8	Hello, super great, Kim. Hello, super great, David.
1:55.8	Kim, I have a question. I love questions far away.
1:59.8	What is the best kind of story? Well, I think the best kind of story is an old story which has been told for many years and passed on from person to person.
2:10.8	Ooh, that's a good answer. I thought you're going to say something specific like only Baba Yaga stories or a Nancy stories or stories that have to have two-headed giants in them.
2:18.8	No, just a story which has been loved and passed along and told by lots of people.
2:24.8	Right. Okay. So, if we really want more people to hear stories, seems like we're going to need help from our lovely listeners.
2:31.8	Yes. We know these stories because people have been sharing them with each other for donkeys years.
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