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Hello. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
My name is Edith and I'm here to tell you a bedtime story | 0:00:08 | 0:00:12 | |
all about an unexpected mix-up. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
Would you like to hear it? | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
You would? Great. Well, get yourself nice and comfortable. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
The story's called The Princess And The Pig | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
and it's by Jonathan Emmett and Poly Bernatene. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
Not that long ago, in a kingdom not far from here, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:35 | |
a farmer was travelling home from market with a cart-load of straw. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:40 | |
The farmer was so poor, he didn't have a horse | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
and had to pull his own cart. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
In the back of the cart lay a tiny, pink piglet. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
Nobody wanted to buy the piglet at market, | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
but the farmer had taken pity on it. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
"I'll call you Pigmella," he decided, | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
as this seemed like a good name for a pig. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
It was a hot day | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
and the farmer stopped to rest in the shade of a great castle. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:09 | |
Far, far above him, on a high balcony, | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
a queen was inspecting her new baby daughter. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
The Queen was so rich that she has seven nannies | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
and didn't have to look after her own child. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
The Queen picked the baby out of her cot and held her at arm's length. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:29 | |
"I'll call it Priscilla," she decided, | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
as this seemed like a good name for a princess. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
A moment later, a wet squelching noise came from the baby's nappy, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:43 | |
closely followed by an awful smell. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
"Yuck!" shrieked the Queen, | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
dropping the baby and running off to find the royal nannies. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
She left so quickly, she didn't notice | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
that she had dropped the baby over the edge of the balcony. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
Down, down, down went the baby, into the farmer's cart. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
Up, up, up flew the piglet, into the princess' cot. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:14 | |
When the Queen returned | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
and found the piglet lying where the baby should have been, | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
she let out an even louder shriek and fainted into the nannies' arms. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:28 | |
The King thought he knew what had happened. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
"A bad fairy has done this," he explained. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
"The fairy wasn't invited to the princess' christening, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
"so she's turned the baby into a piglet to get her revenge. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
"It's the sort of thing that happens all the while in books." | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
Meanwhile, the farmer had returned home | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
and was startled to discover a baby girl | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
lying where the piglet should have been. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
The farmer's wife thought she knew what had happened. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
"A good fairy has done this," she explained. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
"The fairy knew how poor and honest we are, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
"and how badly we want a child | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
"so she's turned the piglet into a baby. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
"It's the sort of thing that happens all the while in books." | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
And so, without a second thought, the baby became Pigmella, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:22 | |
the farmer's daughter. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:23 | |
And the piglet became Priscilla, the princess. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
It wasn't long before Pigmella was able to eat, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
walk, | 0:03:34 | 0:03:35 | |
and dress all by herself. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
And the farmer and his wife soon forgot that she'd ever been a pig. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
Things were not so easy for Priscilla. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
But the King and Queen never let anyone forget | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
that she was really a princess. | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
As Pigmella grew older, she grew clever and beautiful | 0:04:00 | 0:04:06 | |
and was admired by everyone she met. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
As Priscilla grew older, she grew not so clever and not so beautiful | 0:04:09 | 0:04:16 | |
and was avoided by everyone she met. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
Then one day, the farmer's wife overheard | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
some of the castle servants | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
talking about the princess who had turned into a pig. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
"It's just like what happened to Pigmella," she told her husband. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:37 | |
"Only the other way around." | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
The farmer soon guessed what had happened. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
"The princess and the pig must have swapped places somehow," | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
he explained. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:47 | |
"It's the sort of thing that happens all the while in books." | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
The poor farmer and his wife were very unhappy. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
They loved Pigmella, | 0:04:55 | 0:04:56 | |
but they knew they must return her to her rightful home. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
Pigmella was also unhappy. She loved the farmer and his wife | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
and did not want to live with anyone else. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
But they were an honest family, so the next day, | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
they all went to the castle to see the King and Queen. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
The King and Queen listened to the farmer's story, | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
but they didn't believe it. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:19 | |
"What nonsense," cried the Queen. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
"Ridiculous," laughed the King. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
"This girl may be clever and beautiful, | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
"but she does not look or speak like a proper princess." | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
The Queen thought she knew what was happening. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
"It's a trick," she declared. "This girl is just a farmer's daughter, | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
"pretending to be a princess in the hope she might marry a prince. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:43 | |
"It's the sort of thing that happens all the while in books." | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
And so Pigmella returned home with the farmer and his wife, | 0:05:47 | 0:05:52 | |
where she married a young shepherd and lived happily ever after, | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
and never once wished that she'd been a princess. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
And Priscilla also got married to a handsome prince, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:05 | |
although he had to be talked into it. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
"Priscilla was changed into a pig by a bad fairy," the King explained. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
"But once you kiss her, the spell will be broken and she'll turn back | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
"into a beautiful princess," added the Queen. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
"It's the sort of thing that happens all the while in books," | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
they assured him. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
But unfortunately for the prince, | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
it's not the sort of thing that happens in this particular book. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
That was a funny story, wasn't it? | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
It was called The Princess And The Pig | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
It's bedtime now, so you better get ready for a good, long sleep. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
I'll be back again soon with another story. Sleep tight. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 |