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Original Author: Ariel Goodbody
The Shape of Art
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Abstract, Art supplies, Bin, Landscape (painting), Law, Portrait, Sculpture, Shape, Wrong (feeling)Word Count: 1397Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyFelicity is a successful lawyer, but she wants a change. She tries painting and loves it. But there’s a problem: everyone hates her paintings. Can she find the true shape of her art?
Think Fast!
Eugene is a big nerd, and he’s afraid of everything. But one day, a man attacks him in the street, and Eugene discovers that he isn’t so weak after all.
How I Celebrate Christmas
Chocolate oranges, burning puddings and white carrots: British Christmas is quite unique. Find out all about how it’s celebrated in today’s episode.
How the Platypus Came to Be
The nose of a duck, the fur of an otter and the tail of a beaver: platypuses are one of the strangest animals in the world! So where did they come from?
The Curse of the Pig
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Genre: Children’sSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Bone, Catch wind, Curse, Dragon, Forbid, Iron, Ladder, Mud, Pass by in a blur, Pork, String, Tell the future, Tie around, Transform, Wear outWord Count: 4280Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyA princess finds a book that tells her future. When she grows up, she will have to marry a pig. The girl doesn’t want to believe it, but one day a pig comes knocking on her door. But things are not as they seem. This is a curse, and there has to be a way to break it…
The Freezer Door
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Cheek, Cliff, Freeze, Freezer, Gooseberry, Kid, Nightmare, Parallel universe, Pick at, Sober, Weigh something upWord Count: 1517Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyA woman has a loving husband and children, and she’s great at her job. So why is she sad? One day, she opens the freezer door and sees the way into another world. If she goes, she will lose her husband and children. But could she be happy there?
The Pumpkin Jug
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Genre: RomanceSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: A good match, Bow (verb), Come into season, Fit, Hole, Impossible, Jug, Landslide victory, Pick (flowers), Poppy, Pumpkin, Rule (noun), ThirstyWord Count: 1348Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyA king meets a woman who grows pumpkins. She gives him water in a dirty old jug, and then she breaks it. The king thinks this is strange, but he likes the woman. So he gives her a challenge: if she can put a big pumpkin in a small jug, he will marry her. But she cannot break the jug or the pumpkin. Can she do it?
Misty the Snake (Rerun)
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Genre: ComedySetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Bubble wrap, Ex, Lick, Marmite, Owner, Parcel, Prison bars, Put a bounty on someone’s head, Queue, Sneak, Tongue, YeastWord Count: 1457Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyMisty the Snake loves eating other people’s pets. This does not make the people of the United Kingdom happy. So her owner takes her to Brazil, but really she wants to go home to Ghana…
Doing Evil Part 2
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: ‘Even if I die trying’, A-level, Brush yourself off, Detention, Do-gooder, Frame someone for something, Indoctrination, Oxbridge, PE, Practically vibrating, Put your head down, Ripple, Theology, Wet the bedWord Count: 4021Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyTobias arrives at St Gummarus’ School for Nasty Children. At first, he thinks his parents might have made a mistake, because all the kids here are badly behaved and nasty. But he soon realises that deep down, they are good, and they’re threatening his mission to do evil. So Tobias decides to use goodness as a weapon…
Doing Evil Part 1
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: A cross to bear, Atheist, Boarding school, Bullying, Chapel, Evil, Host (Christianity), Hypocrisy, Lord, Mass, Rota, Satan, Seven deadly sins, Spit, Tabernacle, Test the watersWord Count: 3625Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyWhen Tobias’s parents ask him what he wants to be when he grows up, he says, ‘Evil.’ There’s just one problem: his parents are devoted Christians! As Tobias does more and more bad things, his parents try to find ways to make him good, until finally there is only one option left…