Stories
Although nothing can replace the experience of seeing someone tell a story, in this digital age we can have the next best thing: stories told by expert story tellers can be heard by anyone at anytime.
The Spider's Web radio series was one of WGBH's earliest productions aimed at promoting literacy. My mother taped the some of the shows for my brother and me to enjoy. The tapes have survived for nearly thirty years, and now I will share some of those stories with you.
Winnie the Pooh
As read by Frances Schrand and Kenneth Dempsky on the Spider's Web, produced by NPR radio listeners and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting:
"Winnie the Pooh is the first in a series of children's books that have become classics. The author, A.A.Milne, originally wrote these stories for his son, Christopher. In fact, the stories are about a young boy named Christopher Robin and all his animal friends—especially Winnie the Pooh, whose real name is actually Edward Bear, but everybody in the forest calls him Pooh."
We are introduced to Winnie the Pooh and some bees
Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle
Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
(I've seriously compressed these files to make them easy to get online. Of course the quality of a twenty-five year old tape wasn't that great to begin with. Friends can inquire about getting higher quality copies. Strangers shouldn't bother because I get too much spam at the listed e-mail address.)
The Wind in the Willows
As read by Frances Schrand, Peter Johnson, and Joseph Schrand on the Spider's Web. This 1977 reading of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is from the Spider's Web radio series, one of WGBH's earliest productions aimed at promoting literacy. In fifteen parts.
Emerging from his home at Mole End one spring, Mole's whole world changes when he hooks up with the good-natured, boat-loving Water Rat, the boastful Toad of Toad Hall, the society-hating Badger who lives in the frightening Wild Wood, and countless other mostly well-meaning creatures. Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has enchanted readers for generations.
Various stories
"The Blacksmith's Tale" as told by Elizabeth Dunham (11 MB)
"Whickety Whack, Into My Sack" (a tale of Jack) told by Doug Lipman (20.5 MB)
"Redmond O'Hanlon" (and a wee-fellow m'lad) told by Maggie Peirce (8.7 MB)
Buy A Medley of Tellers and Tales from Yellow Moon Press and listen to these and other stories! (I get no kickbacks, so go ahead!) And if you liked "Whickety Whack," see The Storyteller's tale of the soldier.
www.Storyteller.net/stories/audio
Radio
And of course there are old radio shows. This website has a lot of them—uncut, no less: RadioLovers.com
Buzzy Multimedia
Imaginative books read by James Marsters! Ben Browder! Michael Shanks!
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