Richard Pope @richardpope.org · Mar 10

In the search for calm things to play while kids are having breakfast, I stumbled across David Bowie doing Peter and the Wolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie_Narrates_Prokofiev%27s_Peter_and_the_Wolf It’s mostly very Jackanory,... https://richardpope.org/2026/03/10/in-the-search-for-calm/

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Alex · Mar 10

This has been a regular for us at the same time for the same reasons. His intonation feels somewhere between extremely bored and fully engaged and I can't decide which.

Matt Andrews · Mar 10

Between this, the Snowman intro, and Labyrinth, I think my kids suspect that David Bowie is the name of a children's storyteller/entertainer

thattommyhall · Mar 10

on Audible there is a BBC fairy tales where Lenny Henry does a puss in boots that for some reason sounds like Elvis, we love it

Sharon Dale (she/they) · Mar 10

I had the record/book version