Lockdown Tales

LOCKDOWN TALES

a podcast series sending stories to children
during the Covid-19 crisis

As heard on BBC Radio Suffolk
‘wonderful and innovative at this difficult time’ – MACMILLAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS
'My grandson, who is 3, often asks for the Wonderful Beast Lockdown stories at mealtimes.' – GRANDPARENT OF A LISTENER

For a full list of stories and activities by popular age group, please click here.

listen now : Spotify · Stitcher · soundcloud · ITUNES

The quangle wangle's hat competition:
click here to see the gallery of entries!

Winning entry: 'Ogglegog' (Alice, aged 8)

'The tales are a huge success with my grandson Pablo, who is three. Plus he sometimes comments on the introduction music..."that's Granny!"'
- SYLVIA HALLETT, COMPOSER AND MUSICIAN FOR LOCKDOWN TALES

Lockdown Tales is a free resource and Wonderful Beast relies solely on the support of funders and donors. All contributions, however small, are hugely appreciated. Please help us to keep this project running as long as possible by making a donation, if you can.

funders

Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust
Scarfe Charitable Trust

Participating voices...

creatives

Julia Adlard
Julia Blackburn
Martin Bonger
Ann Bryson
Sally-Ann Burnett
Rosalind Burt
Jonathan Buxton
Emma Chichester Clark
Alfie Enoch
Vincent Franklin
Hugh Fraser
Theo Fraser Steele
Ann Firbank

Rob Gildon
Hilary Greatorex
William Hackett-Jones
Jenny Hall
Emily Holt
Rob Jarvis
Gemma Jones
Veronica Lamond
Morven Macbeth
Petra Markham
Sasha Mitchell
Sophie Neville
Bethany O'Halloran

Dean Parkin
Ann Penfold
Matt Prendergast
Diana Quick
Prathap Ramachandra
Montserrat Roig de Puig
Martina Schwarz
Anusha Subramanyam
Cleo Sylvestre
Penelope Wilton
Sam Wright

Alys Kihl
Emma Close-Brooks