Samuel West - Angry Arthur

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0:00:06 > 0:00:08Hello.

0:00:08 > 0:00:09My name's Sam.

0:00:09 > 0:00:14It's nearly your bedtime, but would you like to hear a story first?

0:00:14 > 0:00:15Great.

0:00:15 > 0:00:18It's bedtime for Arthur in tonight's story

0:00:18 > 0:00:20and he's not very happy about it.

0:00:20 > 0:00:23The story is called Angry Arthur.

0:00:23 > 0:00:28It's by Hiawyn Oram, with pictures by Satoshi Kitamura.

0:00:28 > 0:00:31Once there was a boy called Arthur.

0:00:31 > 0:00:35He wanted to stay up and watch the Western on TV.

0:00:35 > 0:00:38"No," said his mother.

0:00:38 > 0:00:40"It's too late, go to bed."

0:00:41 > 0:00:43"I'll get angry," said Arthur.

0:00:44 > 0:00:47"Get angry," said his mother.

0:00:47 > 0:00:50So he did.

0:00:50 > 0:00:52Very, very angry.

0:00:53 > 0:00:59He got so angry that his anger became a storm cloud,

0:00:59 > 0:01:02exploding thunder and lightning and hailstones.

0:01:02 > 0:01:04LOUD CRASHING AND RUMBLING

0:01:04 > 0:01:07"That's enough!" said his mother.

0:01:07 > 0:01:09But it wasn't.

0:01:10 > 0:01:12Arthur's anger became a hurricane,

0:01:12 > 0:01:16hurling rooftops and chimneys and church spires.

0:01:16 > 0:01:19"That's enough," said his father.

0:01:20 > 0:01:21But it wasn't.

0:01:21 > 0:01:24WIND ROARS

0:01:24 > 0:01:27Arthur's anger became a typhoon,

0:01:27 > 0:01:29tipping whole towns into the seas.

0:01:32 > 0:01:36"That's enough!" said his grandfather.

0:01:36 > 0:01:38But it wasn't.

0:01:39 > 0:01:42Arthur's anger became an earth tremor...

0:01:42 > 0:01:43CRACK

0:01:43 > 0:01:48..cracking the surface of the earth like a giant cracking eggs.

0:01:48 > 0:01:51"That's enough," said his grandmother.

0:01:52 > 0:01:53But it wasn't.

0:01:54 > 0:01:58Arthur's anger became a universe quake.

0:02:00 > 0:02:03And the earth and the moon and the stars and the planets,

0:02:03 > 0:02:06Arthur's country and Arthur's town,

0:02:06 > 0:02:11his street, his house, his garden and his bedroom

0:02:11 > 0:02:13were nothing more than bits in space.

0:02:16 > 0:02:19Arthur sat on a piece of Mars and thought.

0:02:21 > 0:02:23He thought and thought.

0:02:26 > 0:02:29"Why was I so angry?" he thought.

0:02:31 > 0:02:33He never did remember.

0:02:33 > 0:02:35Can you?

0:02:37 > 0:02:40That story was called Angry Arthur.

0:02:40 > 0:02:43We all get angry like that sometimes.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45I'm glad Arthur feels better.

0:02:45 > 0:02:48You won't make such a fuss about going to bed, will you?

0:02:48 > 0:02:51Off you go to get tucked up. Sweet dreams.

0:02:51 > 0:02:53I'll see you again very soon.