Dragonfly Tales

Hello and welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast with Emily and Leo. We are so grateful to you folks for hanging on in there while we got ourselves better. It's been icy cold here in London, but things are looking greener and we could be heading off on holiday soon! This episode we welcome another winner of the Otterpool Park Storywriting competition. Jasmine is 12 and she is...

Hello and welcome to Dragonfly Tales a story podcast with Emily and Leo. And we have a very special treat for our listeners this episode. Emily was fortunate enough to be asked to judge a story-writing competition based around the mysterious Westenhanger Castle , believed to be owned by Henry VIII. There’s a possibly a new garden town being built nearby called Otterpool Park and they ran the story...

Hello and welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast with Emily and Leo. Spring is coming! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it mat feel cold and windy, but underneath the ground the seeds are stirring for Imbolc - the coming of Spring.  We love to celebrate St Brigit's day by feeding the birds, lighting candles to scare away the dark, baking tasty treats and getting the house and...

Hello and welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast with Emily and Leo. Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday with family and friends.  We're bringing in the New Year with stories about winter, cozying down and dreaming of springtime. We are so delighted to welcome our first guest teller of the New Year - Lucy Lill Lucy is a performer from London and she works in mu...

Hello and welcome to season 4 of Dragonfly Tales Podcast. Each episode we will tell you a story from around the world and share some fun and silly things with you. IT’s CHRISTMAS!!!!! We'd like to wish all our listeners a very HAPPY HOLIDAYS! We hope you enjoy our special festive episode. Our first story is by Kim Normanton. She’s the host of one of our favourite podcasts Super Great Kids’ Sto...

Hello and welcome to season 4 of Dragonfly Tales Podcast. Each episode we will tell you a story from around the world and share some fun and silly things with you. A big HELLO! to all our new listeners and subscribers - welcome to the podcast family! Be sure to share your drawings and pictures in our Facebook Group.  Our first story is from our Guest Teller Grethe Mangala Jenson . It's the cla...

Hello and welcome to season 4 of Dragonfly Tales Podcast. Each episode we will tell you a story from around the world and share some fun and silly things with you. We’d like to thank our listeners for their patience – we’re always sorry when we have to postpone an episode but we all get sick sometimes. Coming up this season on Dragonfly Tales: - we will be joined by some amazing guest tellers  - W...

Welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. It’s our Halloween Special!!!!!! Wooooooo! And we have some treats in store for you – or are they tricks? As with our previous Halloween shows, Leo is going to tell a story that’s not too scary. And I’ll tell one that is a bit more scary We also thought we would tickle your funny bone with some spooky...

Welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. We are feeling the Autumn breeze and seeing the leaves become lovely colours. Smelling the smokey, misty air and enjoying all the fruits of the harvest. This week we are delighted to welcome fantastic guest Teller Jon Mason . Jon is a Brighton-based storyteller known for his captivating delivery and l...

Welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. We are delighted to welcome back a young guest teller - Robi Jo! He is sharing the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana. This story of Rama and Sita, and the Flying monkey Hanuman is celebrated each year at Diwali - the Hindu festival of lights. We're sure you'll love Robi Jo's telling! Our st...

Welcome to Season 4 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. We're back! We hope you had a fantastic summer and a great start to the new school year. This week, we have a brilliant guest teller - Will from Melbourne, Australia. Will is only 7 and is a bit of a comedy genius. He shares some of his very own jokes with us. Our story is from Canada - the French...

Hey folks!  We hope you are enjoy the summer break, wherever you are. This episode is one of EMILY's favourites and features the lovely Liz Weir MBE , telling one of her own lovely tales, based on Irish lore, The Mermaid's Gift. If you want to find out more about Liz Weir then you can visit her website HERE . Our story this episode is a classic fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen - but to...

Hey folks!  We hope you are enjoy the summer break, wherever you are. This episode features one of Leo's favourites from Season 2 - the classic Greek Myth about a brave hero who must defeat a hideous monster and escape a mysterious labyrinth. WARNING: it gets a bit scary when Theseus goes into the Labyrinth! For more great myths and legends, check out this fabulous collection by Anthony Horrow...

Hey folks!  We hope you are enjoy the summer break, wherever you are. In this favourite episode, we venture into the Amazonian rainforest to hear a story from the Anambe people. You can find a version of today's tale, 'Ceuci the Witch who ate a lot' in this book: Amazonia - Indigenous Tales from Brazil If you would like to watch Emily tell this story, you can do so HERE . Remember to j...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. While Emily is recovering, we have chosen one of our favourite episodes for you - with TWO stories. The first one is a fable by Aesop, brilliantly told by Leo! If you like this short fable, you can read more of them in this book - Orchard Aesop's Fables . And the second one is The Bremen Town Musi...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This is one of our FAVOURITE episodes - Odysseus and the Cyclops from Season 1. It is THOUSANDS of years old. It’s a very long epic and we only had time to tell a part of it. If you liked the story and want to follow Odysseus on the rest of his journey, we’d recommend this version by Daniel Morden and...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. We're nearly at the end of Season 3 and we are so grateful that you are still here listening with us! This week, we have the return of guest teller Sharon Carr, from our second season. She tells a tale of King who wants far too much. THE MOON!! If you'd like to learn more about Sharon's st...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This is one of our FAVOURITE episodes - The Faerie Thorn. It is a tale from Northern Ireland about the mystical and magical Faerie Thorn tree. I first heard the wonderful Liz Weir MBE tell a version of this at the Glens of Antrim Story Festival. Here is an extract from Jane Talbot’s wonderfully dark c...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we celebrate Leo's end of his first EVER exams. And he has chosen to tell a brilliant Anansi story. Our listeners know Anansi well, as a naughty trickster from the ancient tales of West Africa. The tales travelled across the ocean to the Caribbean and on then throughout the whole wor...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we welcome our guest teller Maria Gillen, from County Cork in Ireland. Maria is a great friend and a fabulous teller of tales. She loves stories of magic, healing and old wisdom and has told to big crowds and small. Maria is also the storyteller in residence at the Kerry Writer's Mus...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we learn about Leo's top five Inventors and Discoverers. Here they are! Click on their names to learn more! 5. Marie Curie 4. Patricia Bath 3. Ada Lovelace 2. Nikola Tesla 1. Leonardo Da Vinci If you would like to tell a tale on the podcast, have a practise at telling a 5minute folkt...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we are celebrating the Spring and Easter. There are many wonderful celebrations happening around the world at this time of year. You can find out about them HERE . Leo shares a lovely story about peace and friendship. You can read the original in Margaret Read Macdonald's wonderful b...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This week, we don't have a guest teller and we really need you!  If you would like to tell a tale on the podcast, have a practise at telling a 5minute folktale. Then you can record it for us (an iPhone works great if you place it on a flat surface and keep one hands width away from the microphone)...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This week's guest teller is Camden, who is 11, from Denver Colorado in the USA. Listen to this brilliant version of Goldilocks and the three Bears. If you would like to tell a tale on the podcast, have a practise at telling a 5minute folktale. Then you can record it for us (an iPhone works great i...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. Thank you so much for being patient with us this week - we had some naughty gremlins at work and had to re-do the recording . Gah!! However, we are so happy with this episode, as it features the lovely Kaila from California, who shares her tale of How the Sea became Salty. She is just BRILLIANT! If yo...