The Warm Glow

Super Great Kids' Stories

Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Stories For Kids

4.5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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A King and Queen living in a cold castle argue and their fire goes out, casting a chill and a gloom over the whole kingdom. They send a servant to fetch more hot coals from the neighbours. Will he succeed and return warmth to the castle in time for the winter festivities? Listen to Wendy Shearer tell this uplifting Christmas story and find out. 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 sometimes cry.
0:26.6	Recommended for ages 5 to 105.
0:31.6	I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:34.6	Happy Christmas, super great kids.
0:38.3	I hope you're having a good time with your family
0:41.3	and maybe even have time to share a story or two with them.
0:46.3	Today we have a gentle story for you from England called the Warm Glow
0:53.3	and it's told by Wendy Shearer who told you the leopard's drum.
0:59.2	On Christmas Eve when I was your age my mum would read as a story and then we'd go upstairs to our
1:05.8	bedrooms carrying candles and singing silent night. And now that I'm grown up on Christmas Eve,
1:12.6	I join my neighbours in a little white church on the village green
1:16.6	and we read poems and sing songs.
1:19.6	This year a girl played a harp
1:22.6	and one of my sons sang an old English Christmas lullaby.
1:28.4	Lovely.
1:30.9	I wonder what you did last night.
1:35.7	So just before we hear Wendy telling us an old English story,
1:37.2	the warm glow,
1:41.9	I wonder if you have any traditions at your family gatherings. It might be at Hanukkah, Eid alfit,
1:45.8	Diwali or another special day.
1:48.5	Perhaps you bake cookies together,
1:50.6	have a picnic on the beach,
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