Airing time: Your choice, on-demand
Writer and story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Her stories come from all over the world, as well as from her own imagination. They are all told in true oral tradition.
Pick a Tale for Adults airs Wednesday at 8pm, after the kids have gone to bed. After all, we don't want to give them nightmares.
(Pick a Tale for Children airs Wednesdays at 8am - just in time for the car trip to school)
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Podcasts
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Tell it Again Harry & A Matter of Hormones by Sheila Forbes
Lesley's good friend and fellow writer, Sheila Forbes, reads her own short stories
Duration: 00:26:28 | Date: 12 June, 2024
Nineteen Ninety Six
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:13:15 | Date: 29 May, 2024
East Of Sun, West Of Moon
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:19:02 | Date: 15 May, 2024
War and Peas & Chief Seattle
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:16:42 | Date: 1 May, 2024
Tough Men Rough Places, The Workhouse Boys, The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:16:48 | Date: 27 March, 2024
The Facts About Flax
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:15:03 | Date: 13 March, 2024
The Paradise Garden
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 12:03 | Date: 28 February, 2024
How to Live Forever
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:13:41 | Date: 14 February, 2024
Bad Jelly the Witch
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:19:43 | Date: 31 January, 2024
Dance In The Sky & The Story of Pleides
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:14:22 | Date: 17 January, 2024
Brad Amanti
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:15:08 | Date: 27 December, 2023
The Christmas Apple Tree & Surfboat Men
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:18:40 | Date: 13 December, 2023
Contraptions & The Dragon of Krakow
Storyteller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:17:38 | Date: 29 November, 2023
A Drop of Amber Brew & New Plymouth Railway
Storyteller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:19:37 | Date: 15 November, 2023
Billy the Kid & Old Man, Rolling Rock
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:15:05 | Date: 1 November, 2023
Three Snake Leaves
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:17:04 | Date: 18 October, 2023
Blind Man Goes Walking
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:12:56 | Date: 13 September, 2023
Snow White in New York
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:18:12 | Date: 30 August, 2023
Ivan - A Tale From Russia
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:15:53 | Date: 16 August, 2023
Jack the Cunning Thief
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:17:10 | Date: 2 August, 2023
Tom Tit Tot
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:16:23 | Date: 19 July, 2023
Grandads Medals & Helping to Win the War
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:15:38 | Date: 28 June, 2023
If You Blink You Miss It
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:21:28 | Date: 31 May, 2023
The Immigrants & Rona and the Moon
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:17:08 | Date: 17 May, 2023
Home Before the Acorns Fall
Home Before the Acorns Fall by Lesley Dowding
Duration: 00:21:50 | Date: 10 October, 2023
The Red Poppy
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:22:58 | Date: 3 May, 2023
How the First Black Bird Came to Ireland
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:22:33 | Date: 19 April, 2023
King Cormacs Fighting Academy
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:22:09 | Date: 12 April, 2023
The True Story of Joan Wiffen, Back Country
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:21:35 | Date: 5 April, 2023
Paper Cuttings
Hans Christian Anderson's Paper Cuttings
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:22:45 | Date: 29 March, 2023
The Little Ship
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:15:07 | Date: 22 March, 2023
Quetta Torres Part 2
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:16:47 | Date: 15 March, 2023
Quetta Torres Part 1
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:15:49 | Date: 8 February, 2023
Baiame Part 2 & Koala and the Rainbow
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:22:44 | Date: 1 March, 2023
Baiame_Pt1
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:21:00 | Date: 22 February, 2023
Old Peters Russian Tales
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:23:59 | Date: 15 February, 2023
Mutiny on the Bounty
Story teller, Lesley Dowding, lives to bring story into the world of children and adults, alike. Her listeners are encouraged to bring to life imagination and creation, to dance with the stars and enjoy the moment.
Duration: 00:16:00 | Date: 1 February, 2023