Keith Heltsley

Lets Pretend – Retro Radio Podcast

Kids EN ↓ 36 episodes

Sharing family friendly entertainment through old time radio, and more.

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Keith Heltsley

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Let’s Pretend – One Eye, Two Eye, Three Eye. ep31, 521129 10.01.2026

Before we hear our story, the pretenders take a helicopter flight that delivers us a safely in storyland. Our story involves sisters with the names, One Eye, Two Eye, and…

Lets Pretend – The Enchanted Frog. ep25, 470920 15.11.2025 19:24

Get ready to travel to storyland on an old-fashioned hayride. A king called his three sons together, and gave the command that it’s time they each marry. None are too…

Let’s Pretend – Bluebeard. ep15, 470621 01.11.2025

Occasionally at the beginning of the show, the announcer tells of an award for the show, or reads a letter of praise. A few weeks ago on the podcast, a…

Let’s Pretend – The Six Swans. 470607 18.10.2025 25:18

The show has just received an award for 16 years of top-notch service. The pretenders take a ride on a rocket for today’s adventure into storyland. A household with 6…

Let’s Pretend – The Yellow Dwarf. ep9, 460727 11.10.2025 23:12

Let’s ride to storyland on a speed boat. Today’s story is one about a mean dwarf. Once upon a time in a land beyond the moon, a princess needs a…

Let’s Pretend – The Magic Carpet 04.10.2025 26:45

Take a trip to storyland by climbing a rope. Today’s story is one from the Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Three princes are seeking a bride, but only one princess…

Let’s Pretend – The Emperor’s New Clothes. ep42 27.09.2025 20:13

The audio starts with the story in progress. Audio quality is excellent. The story of a conceited, arrogant king who is taken in by a couple of con men posing…

Let’s Pretend – Sleeping Beauty 20.09.2025 20:59

Fasten your seatbelts as the Pretenders blast off in a rocket to travel to storyland today. It’s going to be the classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. The story of…

Let’s Pretend – Robin Hood. ep35, 540109 06.09.2025 23:22

Let’s take off in a hurry to storyland and go by motorcycle. Once upon a time in Sherwood Forest… well just listen in to enjoy this radio dramatization of the…

Let’s Pretend – King Thrushbeard. ep47 30.08.2025

Today’s story is said to be the basis for Shakespeare’s play, the Taming of the Shrew. Now let’s take an express subway ride to storyland, and get started. A king…

Let’s Pretend – Ceres and Proserpina. ep34, 531128 09.08.2025

Travel to storyland by riding a parade of zoo animals, the classic tale of a wealthy merchant who lost all he had. He and his two daughters now have to…

Let’s Pretend – Douban The Physician 26.07.2025 26:17

How should we travel to our magical storyland today? Pogo sticks sounds like the way to go. The story is one adapted from the Arabian Nights, and is about an…

Let’s Pretend – The Juniper Tree. 410419 12.07.2025

Come one, come all, and let’s pretend. Listen and enjoy the week’s children’s story. Mount up on horses as we ride off to storyland. The Juniper Tree is a story…

Let’s Pretend – The Fisherman And His Wife. 410426 05.07.2025

The pretenders share a fan letter that requests today’s story. Let’s take a motorcycle ride with the police to storyland. A fisherman has a wife who complains of their poverty,…

Let’s Pretend – Golden Fleece (AFRS). 540717 21.06.2025 19:10

Today’s story is a legend from Greek Mythology. Take a magical ride as a magical harp transports us to storyland. Prince Jason awaits the arrival of Shira, a well-known teacher…

Let’s Pretend – Melilot. 470823 24.05.2025

The Pretenders take us to storyland by a fast ride in a convertible sports car. Three brothers find themselves in trouble with an evil witch. They contemplate the horrible fate…

Lets Pretend (CBS) House of the World. 421226 17.05.2025 29:48

A house without windows, the house of the world, has Good Will and his child companion shut out. Walls keep him shut out, but inside a young family feel the…

Let’s Pretend – The Little Mermaid. 420829 10.05.2025

The Pretenders read a letter from a fan who has requested today’s story. Let’s all ride horses into storyland and enjoy. At the bottom of the sea, mermaids wonder over…

Let’s Pretend – Why The Sea Is Salty. 420822 26.04.2025 29:06

First up, the Pretenders answer a few fan letters, and respond to some criticism, before getting started with today’s requested story. To travel to storyland today is on a flock…

Let’s Pretend – The Chinese Nightingale. 410524 19.04.2025 28:51

To travel to our storyland today, let’s all take a Chinese rickshaw. A Nightingale brings happiness to a young lady as it sings its songs outside her window. She enjoys…

Let’s Pretend – Rapunzel. ep18, 470719 29.03.2025

Take a special train that goes nonstop to storyland. Is there anyone out there not familiar with the story of the girl with the long blonde hair? Listen in and…

Let’s Pretend – The Princess And The Pea. 490403 15.02.2025

There’s another fun packed show in store today. The Pretenders read a fan letter, and respond to it. Uncle Bill has his cohost Cybil lead the kids to storyland as…

Let’s Pretend – The Brave Little Tailor. 470712 25.01.2025 25:11

To travel to storyland today, let’s ride on an old fashioned, horse drawn ice cream wagon. After a brief sponsor message, the story begins. In the neat and tidy workshop,…

Let’s Pretend – The Magic Tinder Box. 490709 18.01.2025 31:29

This begins with a bonus track. It’s actually a recording of Puss in Boots, as narrated by Hal Peary, the Great Gildersleeve, he brings this tale to life with a…

Let’s Pretend – The White Cat. 520816 04.01.2025 26:02

Without the usual opening formalities, we get right to the story. It’s a story about an old king’s with three sons, and they each face a challenge to see which…