There was a man going to market and he’s only got one tin to sell, a small, rusty, empty tin and that’s all. And his friends are saying, “is that all you’re taking to market?” and he says, “If I can sell this tin then I’ll be a rich man, because this tin is magic…”
Length: 22:06
For ages: 5+
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An old woman sat stitching a handkerchief, not realising what a story she was setting in motion…
Length: 07:34
For ages: 5+
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A glasses-maker is stumped one day when a miserable looking man comes into his shop and asks him to make him a pair of glasses that “let me see the beauty in the world, because all I can see is the world’s ugliness!” The glasses-maker’s struggle to help the man lead him to a marvelous discovery…
Length: 22:27
For ages: 5+
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A carpenter makes a pair of crutches for a customer and finds that they have a life of their own…
Length: 12:38
For ages: 5+
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A bus driver mysteriously finds that no-one is waiting at any of the stops on his normally busy route, until a strange young man gets on and all is revealed…
Length: 05:50
For ages: 5+
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A King sets an old farmer a test: he must make the journey from his impoverished farm to the royal palace without spending any of the King’s gold coins. It takes the farmer many attempts before he succeeds, but in the end he is rewarded beyond his wildest dreams!
Length: 22.39
For ages: 5+
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A boy tries to soften the king’s heart in many different ways, but nothing works! At last he comes upon the answer, and suprises even himself when it finally works!
Length: 19:13
For ages: 5+
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Once there was a witch who got up to no end of mischief in her town, causing people all kinds of unhappiness. one day, a clever sheriff decides to show her that there are more satisfying things she could be doing with her magic.
Length: 16:47
For ages: 5+
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Once a little girl asked a dragon to help her and her mother heat their little home, where the fire had gone out and they hadn’t any more wood. He comes and blows fire into her stove, but by the morning her stove is cold again, and the dragon starts longing for a way of helping her that’s more long-lasting…
Length: 14:23
For ages: 5+
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A bishop doing the rounds of his churches, hears of a young man who has been upsetting his vicars by going from one church to another and saying “Show me God!”, to which none of them have found an adequate answer…
Length: 10:33
For ages: 5+
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A fish who has never imagined what might lie above the sea, one day sees the hull of a boat cutting through the waves, and simply has to know what it is. And after that, there’s no turning back…
Length: 12:55
For ages: 5+
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A young man’s car slides off the road in heavy snow, and that’s just the start of his troubles…
Length: 09:22
For ages: 5+
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A sailor boy was so foolish that whatever the captain told him to do, he’d do the opposite. However, one day, by simply doing his foolish things, he manages to rescue the whole ship from certain danger…
Length: 09:43
For ages: 5+
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Late at night, and looking bedraggled and tired, the mathematician turned up at the carpenter’s door. The carpenter fed him and gave him a bed for the night but the following morning he asked what a mathematician was doing wandering the world like a tramp.
“I am searching for infinity” the mathematician replied. “It has eluded me in the university, and in the laboratory, and now I have vowed to walk the world until I find it.”
The carpenter was suddenly gripped by a strong impulse. “Wait here!” he said, and went into his workshop and returned with a chair unlike any he had ever made. “I’ve been waiting for the right person to give this to, and I think it might just be yours…”
Length: 14:00
For ages: 7+
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A woodcarver makes an exquisite doll which comes to life and declares herself to be a Princess from another world who has been rudely pulled into the woodcarver’s dream. But how to get her back? And what if she is the one dreaming him?
Length: 32:40
For ages: 5+
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Once there was a ship that sank at sea leaving all aboard floating on a raft: the captain, the first mate and a young boy. When a shark appeared in the water beneath them, it seemed like all was lost. And then the boy did something extraordinary that saved all their lives…
Length: 11:53
For ages: 3+
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A boy builds a ladder one day in the hope of conversing with the stars. Soon Mr and Mrs Star have dropped down from the sky and are happily telling him stories!
Length:
For ages: 3+
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A wheelwright, commisioned to make four fine wheels for the King’s new carriage, is visited late one night by a soldier from the King’s army, saying that he has been sent to take the wheels away and test them. He never returns, and the wheelwright is taken in chains to the King to explain himself…
Length: 10:09
For ages: 3+
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