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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a special taster of our new

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premium only story. We hope you like it. He yo, Hello,

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I'm Josephine and this is the Animal Tales podcast. There

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are over one hundred extra stories on our premium service,

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another one. Cheryl and Fred are premium members from Canada

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and they were like a story with a Quaker parrot.

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Don't forget to listen to the animal facts after the

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story to learn more about these creatures. For now, it's

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time to sit back and get comfy, because it's time

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to begin. Here comes Fred. Here comes Fred, announced one

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of the finches excitedly. Oh, I can't wait, yelped a budgy.

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I wonder what he's bringing us this time? All the

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birds heads turned to watch Fred. A blue quaker parrot approaching.

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He walked with a wiggle of his tail feathers and

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a smile at the corners of his beak. Have you

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got another story for us? Fred? Asked a finch. Oh, yes,

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announced the quaker parrot with a knowing smile. And it's

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a good one. Is it as good as the one

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with the three bears? Asked a green and yellow budgy

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quite possibly, said Fred. I really liked that one, continued

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the budgy, especially when the three bears find Goldilocks eating

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their porridge and Goldilocks has to escape by flying out

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of the window. I like the one about robin Hood,

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said a plump finch. All that robbing from the rich

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and giving it to the poor by a brave Quaker

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parrot was amazing. Not as good as the little Mermaid,

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added a blue budgy, although I still don't quite understand

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how a mermaid can also be a Quaker parrot. But

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it was still a great story all the same. Okay,

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everyone quiet and down, said Fred, and he flexed his

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wings and settled his feathers. Are you sitting comfortably? That's good?

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Then I'll begin. Once upon a time there was a

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poor street urchin called Aladdin. Was Aladdin, a Quaker parrot,

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asked a budgy, sh don't interrupt, hissed a finch. Fred

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took a deep breath and continued. Aladdin lived in a

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big city where he had to beg for food in

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the market to survive. Then one day a large bearded

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man saw Aladdin perched on top of a market store

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and noticed how hungry he looked. Aladdin's a bird, chirped

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the budgy loudly. He's perching. He might not be, insisted

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a finch. It might be a boy sat up there.

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Boys don't sit on top of market stalls, grumbled another finch.

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How would they get up there? Fred carried on. The

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bearded man pretended that he was Aladdin's long lost uncle

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and that he had a task for him. He told

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Aladdin that he wanted him to fly into a cave

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and fetch a special lamp that was hidden there. Fred said, fly,

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shouted a budgy. Boys don't fly. Aladdin must be a bird,

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might not be, said the plump finch. He could be

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a bat. What rubbish, complained the budgy. Whoever heard of

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a bat being the hero of a story? Hold on

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a moment, said the blue budgy. How can the bearded

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man be a bird's uncle? Wouldn't Aladdin notice that they

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were different? Oh? Yeah, said the finch. Although we live

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in Sheryl's house, so I guess it must be like

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Sheryl being our mum. Ah, that would explain it, said

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the blue budgy. Carry on Fred. Fred wasn't used to

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this many interruptions, but he carried on nonetheless. Aladdin and

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the Bearded Man set off for the cave immediately, and

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when they arrived, the man explained to Aladdin that he

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could not enter the cave. In truth, the cave was

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full of magical track apps, and the man was tricking

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the brave Quaker parrot to retrieve the lamp for him.

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Aladdin's not just any bird, He's a Quaker parrot, shrieked

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