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Threshold - Bedtime Stories

Support Threshold and enjoy a wonderful collection of well-loved stories read by Ireland’s most treasured authors, actors, poets and musicians. Your kindness is the key to preventing homelessness. Threshold is Ireland"s unique frontline service for people experiencing housing problems and those at risk of homelessness. Every day, Threshold’s specialised housing advisors are preventing five families from losing the heartbeat of their lives – their family home. By supporting Threshold, you can help

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00:06:53

Worried Arthur: The Birthday Party - read by Katie...

Threshold - Bedtime Stories ·

2024/05/27

Arthur is a penguin and a worrier. One morning he wakes up feeling excited and worried all at once. Dad has promised him a birthday party and there’s an awful lot to think about. Will Ben burst all the balloons? Will Dad perform his terrible magic tricks? Or might it be the very best birthday party a little penguin ever had?

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00:31:01

When Your Wealth Dwindles - read by Razan Ibraheem

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2024/05/27

In a village on the side of the mountain, where the houses were built of black stone and the trees were tall and hard, there lived a knight known for his bravery. ‘When Your Wealth Dwindles’, an Arabian folktale about quarrel and resolution, read by journalist Razan Ibraheem.

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00:09:10

The Trouble With Lightning - read by ER Murray

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2024/05/27

A fictional tale about a dog during World War 2. Ruth is joined by Lightning, an abandoned dog she has taken under her care, as bombs rained down during air raids. Running for the bomb shelter she is told, “No dogs allowed.” Join Ruth and Lightning in their adventures.

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00:10:07

The King Who Hated To Have His Hair Cut - read by...

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2024/05/27

There once was a king, Labhraí Loingseach, who would only allow his hair to be cut once a year but after that nothing more was heard of the barber who cut it. When seven barbers vanished there was never a barber in all Ireland who would come within a mile of the castle gates of the king. What would Labhraí Loingseach do?

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00:08:36

The King And His Three Daughters - read by Razan...

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2024/05/27

The king loved his daughters very much for they were good and beautiful girls. But, one day he decided to test how much they loved him. The answer of his third daughter greatly displeases him. Banished from her home, she will teach her father a valuable lesson when they meet again many years later.

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00:14:51

Orco di Guardiagrele - read by Francesca La Morgia

Threshold - Bedtime Stories ·

2024/05/27

A long time ago, an ogre living in Guardiagrele was well-liked by everyone. The locals gave the poor ogre a lot of cooked and raw food, and he had to flee to a nearby town. It was then that people noticed the goodness of the ogre and ...

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00:08:47

How Grandmother Spider Brought Light To The World

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2024/05/27

After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

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00:05:37

Hamdi’s Audacious Acidophilus Dream - read by Nidhi Zak

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2024/05/27

Hamdi grew up in a farm in Turkey, tending goats and trees, helping his parents and making cheese. He went to America to learn English but missed the cheese of home. Can you think of something that makes your home your ‘home’?

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00:15:02

Aldrin Adams Prologue: The Cheese Nightmares - read...

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2024/05/27

An adventure full of mystery, magic and cheeses that seriously, seriously pong! Aldrin Adams is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary superpower. When he eats cheese just before he goes to sleep, he can enter into other people's dreams . . . And their nightmares! But why has he got this power? And what is he supposed to do with it? He needs answers . . . And fast! What Aldrin doesn't realize is that he is being watched by a mysterious, supernatural villain.

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00:05:05

What We’ll Build - read by Rory Hearne

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2024/05/27

A tale about home, parents, children and love. A father and daughter go about laying the foundations for their life together using their own special tools; building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe, and love to keep them warm. Rory Hearne, probably as you’ve never heard him before.

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00:10:23

The Tale Of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle - read by Sebastian Barry

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2024/05/27

The Tale Of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle tells the story of a hidden home high in the hills. It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. She knocks on the tiny door, and meets Mrs Tiggy-winkle who does all the washing and ironing for the neighbouring animals. Lucie spends a lovely day helping her, and it's only right at the end of the day that she realises Mrs Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog!

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00:03:46

The Night Before Christmas - read by Owen Roe

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2024/05/27

On the night before Christmas, a father catches an unexpected glimpse of St. Nicholas himself. Along with his eight reindeer, Santa is here to fill the family's stockings with toys. His short visit fills the silent house with joy and wonder.

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00:05:45

The Cat And The Devil - read by Barry McGovern

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2024/05/27

The Devil built a bridge across the river at the town of Beaugency. As usual, the Devil wanted a high price for his gift. But the clever mayor of the town outwitted the Devil by making use of the Devil’s fondness for cats.

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00:06:34

The Bird And Elephant - read by Razan Ibraheem

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2024/05/27

The wild Elephant broke the branch of the tree in a rage where the nest was built by Sparrows. They told the Elephant not to hit the branch but the Elephant did not listen. He broke that branch and the eggs fell and broke at once. What happens next?

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00:14:01

Stage Coach - read by Cónal Creedon

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2024/05/27

Growing up on MacSweeney Street, two cowboys, Ted and Georgie, were reared on tall stories about Grandad Buckley’s war heroics; seemingly in every single war and daring-do of the age. Swapping memories and tall-tales, and armed with some string, they set off for the horizon, past the Rio Grande, and on to adventures in the Wild West. Geee-Yup! Yeee-Haaah!

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00:12:16

Mariella, Queen Of The Skies - read by Eoin Colfer

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2024/05/27

Super-smart Mariella loves nothing more than inventing, but bedtime keeps getting in the way of all her brilliant ideas. There’s only one thing for it – Mariella has to build a rocket-powered flying suit to zap her round the world faster than the setting sun! If anyone can invent such a thing, it’s Mariella. But without sleep, will Mariella’s brilliant ideas just disappear?

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00:09:45

Lesson Learned - read by Dave Rudden

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2024/05/27

Fairy tales are about rules. A girl dances two hundred miles out of the city and on off into the wilderness. Avoiding monsters and dragon fire, after 3 months dancing, she finally found the beyond the beyond the great nothing. Lean and sharp as a knife in her red shoes .. she learns why.

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00:05:31

How Will Santa Find Us - read by Jarlath Regan

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2024/05/27

When their family loses their home, a little girl and her younger brother are left with nowhere to stay for Christmas. As they move from place to place, their parents distract them by taking them on a journey through their imaginations. Everywhere they visit becomes an exciting new world. They climb mountains on a friend's couch. They become ghosts in a hotel lobby. They go on safari while sleeping in their car.

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00:20:57

How To Help Your Grandda - read by Fergus Cronin

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2024/05/27

When Lorcan Browne’s class are told to write to someone they admire, all his friends choose soccer stars and boy band singers, but Lorcan chooses the richest person in town instead, because he could never write to the person he REALLY admires – his Grandda. Sometimes letter-writing can have the most surprising of consequences.

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00:15:38

Fintan’s Fifteen - read by Alan Nolan

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2024/05/27

Ray is tired of losing every match he plays with his team, the Ballybreen Terriers. Before they become the laughing stock of the leadership, Ray persuades Fintan Heffernan, ex-star player of U10's to leave his early retirement and computer games to help bring his rival 'Dirty Den' down and lead the Ballybreen Terriers to the victory they deserve.

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