Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt

Dad hears something strange in the garden and finds the courage to investigate whether he needs to run away. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link... https://amzn.to/3sE3Ki2 To...

April and Fin have to find a cockroach but their own house is bug free, so they have to visit their next door neighbour. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link... https://amzn.to...

Mr Lang has a stern talk with April and Fin. They have had three official complaints made about them and Pumpkin the dog in just one day. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link.....

Joe makes a dreadful first impression with his teachers and classmates, until they discover that he is unexpectedly brilliant at something. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link...

April and Fin go to their first PE class at Currawong High. It doesn't go well. The PE teacher makes the whole class do a theory lesson to punish April and Fin for not bringing their sports uniform. Then the theory lesson involves giving cockroaches interval training which just seems weird. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please lik...

Joe, Fin and April arrive at Currawong High School. Mrs Pilsbury, the school secretary is not impressed to meet Pumpkin. And Mr Lang, the school counsellor, encourages the Peski kids to take part in the annual Cockroach Races so they can become a part of the local community. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subs...

Joe, Fin and April are horrified to discover that they have to wear a school uniform to their new school. Also, that their Dad doesn't drive - so they have to run to school if they have any chance of getting there on time. Luckily their staggeringly beautiful next door neighbour, Loretta is able to offer them a lift. They soon discover it will be hard to keep secrets from someone so perceptiv...

Joe, Fin and April meet their Dad for the first time in eleven years.  Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link... https://amzn.to/3sE3Ki2 To buy me a coffee use this link... https...

Professor Maynard explains to Joe, Fin and April where she is taking them and why. The kids are not impressed.  Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link... https://amzn.to/3sE3Ki2...

April, Fin and Joe don't realise it yet but their mother is missing and their world is about to be turned upside down, by a woman they always regarded as being frumpiness squared. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/...

This is the prologue from my book 'The Peski Kids, The Mystery of the Squashed Cockroach'. It sets up the story to come.  Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link... http...

You may have heard of the Grimms' Fairy Tale, 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses'. But in this podcast reveals what really happened. It wasn't about princesses at all! It was about pigcesses and those pigcessese were twelve of her identical fourteenuplet sisters. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or...

When a mean girl at school calls Michael a narcissist he asks Nanny Piggins to explain was a 'narcissist' is which leads her her telling the Ancient Greek story of Narcissus, Echo and Nemesis. Her version is a little different to the standard story because her distant relative Ovid Piggins wrote it all down with the details of what actually happened. Support the show at  https://www.buym...

Friday is exhausted after a long day of solving art crime in Florence, Italy. But before she goes to bed she's got one more mystery to solve - who stole everything from Mrs Cannon's room? Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress...

When Mum and Tammy have to walk to school from the other side of town, Mum begins to wonder about the motives of a very smiley real estate agent with unnaturally blue eyes. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To...

Bramwell Piggins (Nanny Piggins no good brother) accidentally gets a job as a giant slayer after eating a fly infested jam tart. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link... https:/...

When Friday's school group stays at a convent in Florence, the nuns need help dealing with accusations of impurity against their gelato. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this li...

Nanny Piggins is shocked to learn that the children will be performing Shakespeare's famous play 'Romeo and Juliet'. She knows the real story of what happened all those years ago in Italy, because it just so happens that a distant relative or hers was involved. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or sub...

Nanny Piggins fills the children in on what really happened in the Ancient Greek Story times to the great cunning genius - King (or rather Queen) Sisyphus. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my boo...

When Nanny Piggins discovers that her arch-nemesis, Nanny Anne has secretly formed a christmas carol singing choir she is outraged that she was not invited to join. Naturally she much form her own choir to get crush her rival with her superior showmanship skills.  Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Supp...

It's Christmas at Highcrest Academy, Friday Barnes is in trouble with the Headmaster again, although she's not sure why and Ian has been accused of stealing the beautiful antique star from the top of the school's Christmas tree. Can Friday solve the mystery before the parents arrive for awards night and Ian gets expelled? Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesrasp...

When Mr Green asks Nanny Piggins to take the children to have their photo taken with Santa she is shocked at his unexpectedly festive request. But she is even more shocked when she gets to the shopping centre and sees the expensive prices the elves are charging. Naturally she has to bring down the entire corrupt system. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoy...

When mysterious things start appearing on the vacant block at the end of their street - Mum and Tammy's imaginations run wild. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/raspratt To buy one of my books use this link... http...

After an unfortunate incident where Nanny Piggins is forced to throw a shoe at Mr Green's head, on the way to visiting the leopards at the zoo, she takes the children shoe shopping. This leads to her telling the story of her distant relative, Madge Piggins and the ill fated time she put on a pair of red shoes. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed th...

When Binky asks Friday to help him win the school's annual 'Potato Dash' race, she is shocked by the level of cheating that is actively encouraged. But one of the competitors goes to far. Support the show at  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe! Support the show For merchandise use this link... https://www.cafe...