No-one knows the Neighbourhood better than the animals and children. Oscar nominated actor Ciarán Hinds narrates soothing stories, suitable for children aged 4+. Part of the award-winning catalogue of junior podcasts for kids from RTÉ.
// The new girl in school shows Lollie and her friends that there are many ways of being brave. //
// Cocky gets his first guitar and decides what is important to him. //
// Izzy is determined to find a way of dealing with unfortunate timing and bad luck. //
// Life isn't always fair, but Mr Potts has some good things to say to Nettie on the matter //
// Cocky and Denim go on an early morning tramp about the neighbourhood to see what they have been missing //
// Nettie and her friends are concerned when they learn that Mr Potts is handing over his shed in the allotments to Rosemary Crackers //
// Nettie is content in her own company. Too content, perhaps. She likes to draw in the allotments at the back of her house. She befriends old man Potts, a widower, who may or may not be keeping an elephant. //
// Cocky introduces himself to a rhinoceros at a bus stop. He takes the animal to school for a show-off, but finds he has a problem. Ideas can be a jumble, and rules can seem harsh. An audience with An Uachtarán is essential. //
// Cocky is a fly-away boy - he can actually fly. Denim, the lonely new boy in the neighbourhood, makes a friend and learns that fly-away boys tend to come back, and with good reason. //
// Lollie wears her clothes inside-out. It has something to do with her mother being in hospital. Her friend, Mary-Mary wonders should she do the same. //
// Mary-Mary, Lollie and Sylvia go on a school trip to the gallery. They slip through a panel door marked PRIVATE, where they encounter Mr Thistle, an art restorer. How important is it to be a good observer? //
// Sylvia is concerned about her granddad. He has taken to sitting on a kitchen chair in the back garden. He has a plan, he tells her. He will need a go-cart and Sylvia's help. //
// Izzy wants to feel the earth rotate under the wheels of her otherwise stationary skates. The dentist she is avoiding turns out to be a fellow cosmic traveller. //
// Curious Izzy follows a flight of birds and that leads her to the coast. She meets Buffer, the school bully, but also Wally, a motorcycle Garda obsessed with birds. A person might investigate one thing, but find another. //
// A school trip is very much more interesting when a hippo joins in. Well, it is a science project, after all, and Izzy's grandma arriving on her new motorbike can be part of it. //
// 'We've all grown up and moved away, Perhaps you live there now.' Interlinked stories of childhood read by Ciarán Hinds and written by Philip Davison. Coming soon. //
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