One day, on her way to market, the farmer found a thin young girl standing by the side of the road. “Please miss, you’ve got so much food on your cart! Could you share some with me and my family, we’re all starving hungry!” What happens next doesn’t just help the girl and her family, it changes the farmer’s life too!
Music by Leo and Sundara Sofer
Length: 36:53
For ages: 5+
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Once there was a fish who wanted to fly. Oh how he wanted to fly! But no-one could tell him how to do so. No-one, that is, until a wise old fish tells him the secret. But that is only the beginning of his adventures…
Length: 43:47
For ages: 7+
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“Are you looking for me?” says the whale as it looms out of the water beside the Fisherman’s tiny boat. “No! No, I wasn’t looking for you!” he splutters. But when the whale has disappeared into the depths, he can think of nothing else but seeing that marvellous creature again. The next time they meet, he has a different answer ready.
Length: 11:14
For ages 5+
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“Let me tell you a secret” said the crow, as the Ox lay panting after pulling the plow all morning. “You, my friend, have wings… you’ve just forgotten about them!”
Length: 11:09
For ages: 3+
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A Russian Fairy Tale.
Once upon a time there was a King who had three sons, and when they had grown to manhood the King gave each of them a golden arrow and told them to go to the topmost tower of his palace and shoot the arrows as far as they could, and wherever the arrows landed, there they should seek their bride.
The arrows of the first two sons landed in the gardens of a princess and a duke’s daughter, but the third son’s arrow landed in a swamp, and a frog picked it up…
Length: 52:10
For ages: 7+
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One day the King’s gardener finds gold in the most unexpected place while tending the palace gardens. Should he tell the King or keep it to himself?
Length: 17:39
For ages: 5+
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A blacksmith is asked one day to make a pair of horseshoes that are twice as large as normal ones…
Length: 07:26
For ages: 5+
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“I have to ride you!” said the girl to the horse. “Mistress, you may ride me if you wish,” replied the horse, “but when you get off my back, you will no longer be a girl, you will have become a woman! Are you sure you still want to ride me?”
Length: 07:00
For ages: 7+
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“I’ve lost my Daddy!” said the little girl that the sculptor had just made out of wood. “Well, what does he look like?” replies the sculptor, “maybe I can help you find him”…
Length: 08:25
For ages: 5+
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The little girl asked her father, “what will I be when I grow up?” He thought this too big a question for one so small, so he answered simply, “one day, you will look up and see the birds writing your destiny in the sky!” This off-hand comment has huge and unintended consequences that change their relationship forever!
Length: 25:19
For ages: 7+
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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 marvellous discovery…
Length: 22:27
For ages: 5+
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A farmer finds an apple tree growing in a field he has always left fallow. When the autumn comes it bears a single golden apple…
Length: 10:24
For ages: 7+
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An old woman sat stitching a handkerchief, not realizing what a story she was setting in motion…
Length: 07:34
For ages: 5+
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A jeweller feels strangely compelled to buy the simplest, plainest stone in the shop. The shopkeeper can’t understand it, but nor can the jeweller. What will she make of it? The answer to this question changes her life forever.
Length: 10:43
For ages: 3+
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One day a little girl heard two birds talking in their nest. “We must be very careful with the key we’ve got here in our nest. If the people find out that it’s the key to happiness, they’ll try and steal it from us” As soon as she hears this, she can’t wait to do just that! But what to do with that little key once she’s got it?
Length: 9:34
For ages: 3+
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A Fisherman finds a mysterious golden key in the ocean, but it doesn’t fit any of the doors in his house. Soon after, however, a fine Prince comes riding into town, asking if anyone has seen the key to his father’s kingdom.
Length: 8:46
For ages: 5+
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Once there were two brothers with very different outlooks on life. The younger brother always saw the good in everything, whereas the older brother couldn’t stop complaining. Their lives take very different turns before coming back together at the end of their lives, with a surprising outcome.
Length: 18:54
For ages: 5+
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A fisherman finds an old man in rags living in the mountains who says he is the lost brother of the King. When he is invited back to the palace, his table manners prove to be rather less than regal…
Length: 08:34
For ages: 3+
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