Original Stories Archive

• Astropup

  

  Astropup was an unwilling passenger on a space rocket. Now he travels the Universe with a brilliant Parrot who is a Major in the Space Force.

• Bertie Stories

  

  Bertie is a very modern Prince, engaged to Princess Beatrice. He would like to be a secret agent, but muddles through life using his charm and terrible jokes. Oh yes, one little thing - he spent 8 years living as a frog on the pond.

• Birdy

  

  Jake’s best friend is a chatty garden bird who has lived for centuries and has been friends with kings and queens.

• Dutch Hotel

  

  Yogi and Nafsi live in London's Dutch Hotel not far from Hyde Park. The rumour is that the hotel is haunted and that some of the staff are ghosts. But are they really time-travellers? Listen on to find out.

• Gladys

  

  Gladys has three sisters who are in a girl band. But Gladys isn't in the band because she's too young, and she's "too geeky." But it's Gladys who is the brains behind the band.

• Jack And The Pirate School

  

  Jack's dad sends him to sailing school, but due to a mix-up, he ends up on board the floating Pirate School of Captain Blackheart.

• Jimmy Mouse

  

  Jimmy Mouse lives with a large family of mice under the floorboards of the Sea Side Cafe. Grandpa Mouse has got it into his head that Jimmy is extremely brave and is always sending him on dangerous missions. Jimmy protests but Grandpa will not listen to our not-so-willing hero.

• Katie, The Ordinary Witch

  

  Katie is an ordinary girl apart from one thing - she's a witch and can do magic spells.

• Lapis

  

  Lapis the cat speaks to us down the ages from Ancient Egypt. She is a a magical apprentice to Amon the priest, and has a sister friend, Cleo.

• Monkey Tales

  

  Our music-loving, trickster monkey stays one banana peal ahead of the Bear and the Tiger.

• One-Offs

  

  Not all Bertie's stories work their way up into series. There are our one-offs.

• Rockford's Rock Opera

  

  Far away in the sea of Tranquillity is the island of Infinity, home to the last one of every extinct animal species. Here beneath a magical swirling sky live the world’s lost creatures.

• Rowland

  

  Childe Rowland, the youngest son of King Arthur, is an apprentice Knight. Merlin has entrusted his famous sword, Excalibur to him. The first story in this series is based on tradition - the stories that follow are our own flight of imagination.

• Tick Tock Turkey

  

  The adventures of a scruffy time-travelling turkey who lives on Egg Island with his best friend Future Dog. He is a gobbling, greedy bird, and often travels in time to satisfy his stomach.

• Uncle Christmas

  

  Uncle Christmas is the brother of Father Christmas (otherwise known as Santa). He's much cooler, but he hasn't got a regular job, until one year, Father Christmas asks him if he could do the deliveries.

• Waking Beauty

  

  The mysterious Princess Talia has woken up to find herself as a student in an Oxford College. She is beautiful, but strange, and finds it hard to fit into "modern life."

• Wicked Uncle

  

  Uncle Jeff is not really wicked - but Mum and Dad think he is irresponsible.

• Zoo Stories

  

  Theo the Monkey begins as a chocolate-thieving bandit but learns to appreciate right from wrong, and from then on he is fighting for Justice.