The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if you were confronted by a stupendously mean and strong troll. Jason Buck tells this traditional Norwegian tale with amazing skill and certainly brings the troll to life. Have a listen. It is a bit scary. Eek!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories.
0:18.0	Wise tales from storytellers around the world, which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.
0:25.0	Recommended for ages 5 to 105. I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:33.0	Hello super great kids and how are you?
0:37.0	I'm very happy because super great kids' stories are organising some live shows for the next few months.
0:46.0	More news about that in a couple of weeks.
0:49.0	Today's story is from Norway, a rocky country in northern Europe with many steep peaked mountains.
0:58.0	The story contains some brave goats and a rather nasty troll.
1:04.0	It's told by Jason Buck, the teller of the old woman and the pig's story.
1:11.0	A little warning, it does have a mean troll in it who is rather convincingly scary but it also has a happy splashy ending hooray.
1:24.0	Before we welcome Jason, can you have a little think about this?
1:29.0	In this story, as you may know, some goats are stopped from trotting across a bridge by a mean and bullying troll.
1:38.0	And my question is, how do you think you deal with a troll who was trying to stop you from getting where you wanted to go?
1:46.0	Have a little think about that while we have a quick chat with the grownups.
1:53.0	Hello super great Kim.
1:56.0	Hello super great David. Kim, I have a question.
1:59.0	I love questions far away.
2:01.0	What is the best kind of story?
2:04.0	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.
2:12.0	That's a good answer.
2:13.0	I thought you were 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.
2:20.0	No, just a story which has been loved and passed along and told by lots of people.
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