Planet Storytime Podcast

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***The Beatru Chronicles*** (Chapter 4~Colonel Rhys) - PSP38 Jan 26, 2021

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Welcome back to Planet Storytime!
We start season 3 with chapter 4 from The Beatru Chronicles, "Colonel Rhys" which picks up directly after the conclusion of chapter 3 and takes us back to the riverside with Beatru and Brik as they try to escape from from the oncoming battalion of the Chairman's firehorns!
We're happy to see Beatru's podcast episodes picking up more and more support as we get deeper into the story - thank you! We will continue to shake up our show and continue to occasionally provide stories that are better suited for younger children. We also have an interview coming up with an exciting, amazing children's author who will also be a guest reader for us, reading her brand new story - but that's a secret until the next podcast:)
In the meantime - thanks for sticking with us this past year. As challening as things have been on so many different fronts, it's not hard to see that if we work to be kind, thoughtful, gracious, humble, loving, mindful, tolerant people, we can truly make the world a safer, happier place for every-single-one!
We salute those of you who continue to support our show and the humble values it tries to espouse.
We look forward to 2021 being our biggest year yet and look forward to growing with everyone here. We couldn't do this with out you.
Sincerely,
PSP trench team 21
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***The Beatru Chronicles*** (Chapter 3~Stampede) - PSP37 Dec 31, 2020

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Planet Storytime!
It's NYE! This is our last episode from our 2nd season and we are pleased to bring you chapter three from The Beatru Chronicles as we continue to journey with Beatru and her current challenges out on the Great Plain!
We really hope you enjoy it:)
Thank you to all who have embraced Beatru and her adventure - we truly believe you'll love this key chapter in her story!
And thanks to everyone for making season 2 such a massive success for our team! While 20 podcasts was well short of our schedule for 2020, we experienced exponential growth from where we were a year ago - and it's all because of you! Thank you for connecting with us during one of the most challenging years in recent memory, and for helping us grow - we salute each and every one:)
Have a wonderful New Year's Eve - be safe and smart - and we will see you soon with our first episode of season 3!
Sincerely,
The PSP Team
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The Story of Archie Ball (A Stellar Christmas Story) - PSP36 Dec 22, 2020

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Season's Greetings from Planet Storytime! It's been snowing here for weeks and it's extremely chilly! But it hasn't been enough to keep us from knocking out stories as quickly as we can!
While our team has been focused on the production of The Beatru Chronicles, we wanted to share our first original Christmas story, The Story of Archie Ball, complements of guest author, Eudora Russell.
This is a wonderful Christmas story featuring the lost and out of place, Archie Ball, who finds himself amidst a long quest in search of purpose and meaning, narrated by Thomas Mitchell and featuring classic Christmas music produced by Paxton Stanley. We sincerely hope you enjoy the story!
As we get ready to turn the page on 2020, we remaing 100% focused on continuing to provide more and more stories about Beatru and her adventures but will continue to provide stories for our younger listeners from time to time. This Christmas story should appeal to our fans of all ages!
Wish you all - around the world - a very Merry Christmas and happy holiday season! Thank you for your strong support in a very difficult year - we will continue to provide content and, as promised, with much greater frequency than we had in 2020!
The PSP Team, Thomas and Pax

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***The Beatru Chronicles*** (Chapter 2~The River and the Turtle) - PSP35 Dec 20, 2020

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Welcome back to Planet Storytime!
We return this week with the second chapter from The Beatru Chronicles - The River and the Turtle.
We left off in chapter one with Beatru and Queen Kozima heading out and on to the Great Plain, having escaped from the Red Men in the forest where Beatru awoke from her dream. In chapter two, we start to understand that Beatru's situation is much larger than she realized at first and that things are only now starting to get really interesting for her.
Thomas Mitchell and Pax Stanely deliver another stellar presentation as they continue JS Blue's strange but gorgeous story about 9 year old, Beatru, a young girl in need of water and a quick path back to her brother, Dante.
We recognize that this recent shift to slightly older content may have chased off some of our loyal listeners and we apologize if the shift was, perhaps, too abrupt, but we intend to return with another younger child's story prior to the release of chapter three from The Beatru Chronicles. Planet Storytime has been a wonderful sandbox of experimentation for children's content, but we try to be as mindful as we can to our fans and the parents of our fans. If you have questions, comments, concerns or complements, please remember to reach out to us at planet.storytime@gmail.com.
Thank you as always for your continued support!
The PSP Team

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***The Beatru Chronicles*** (Chapter 1~The Clearing) - PSP34 Dec 06, 2020

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Welcome back to Planet Storytime for a new podcast!
We are happy to present the first chapter in our new original serial, The Beatru Chronicles, written by JS Blue.
Beatru is a 9 year old girl who is just like any other 9 year old. She has a big brother who she adores, she loves lemonade and her favorite band, Sun Tribe 7. One day she awakens to find herself in a strange new place with mind-boggling challenges that will push her into often quick and hard decisions, each with consequences. Although she is only 9 years old, Beatru is a brave and adventerous child who uses her intellect and wittiness to navigate challenges with as much strength and grace as possible. Her journeys will take us many places on a huge, epic stage. We truly hope you enjoy her story as much as we have enjoyed making it!
We will leave the rest of the details to Thomas Mitchell and Pax Stanley who deliver another stellar podcast episode.
This is our first project with JS Blue, a longtime friend of TM Ganim.
NOTES:
- This episode dives straight into the story, bypassing our usual introduction and breathing exercise
- We will continue to occasionally produce more traditional PSP-style stories for our younger fans while maintaining a primary focus on the serial model of storytelling
Please submit any questions, comments, etc., to planet.storytime@gmail.com. And thank you for your patience as PSP34 took a few weeks longer than anticipated to publish. We do anticipate a much speedier publication schedule in 2021.
We also hope you enjoy The Beatru Chronicles! Thank you for your continued, growing support! We look forward to a big 2021 with all of you!
The PSP Team

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A Crow & Beetle Thanksgiving (PSP13 replay) - PSP33 Nov 17, 2020

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Welcome back to Planet Storytime!
In this episode of the podcast, we are presenting our Thanksgiving episode from last year, A Crow & Beetle Thanksgiving. Part of the decision to re-run PSP13 is tied to our current production work for our new original series, The Beatru Chronicles, which we'll be releasing with PSP34 in little over a week (more details on that below), and part is tied to the fact that we consider this to be one of our very best episodes, with two of Thomas and Paxton's favorite characters, Crow and Beetle. So if you missed this episode last year, please give it a listen this year!
We're also well aware of the fact that we are behind schedule with new content - we apologize for the delay. As we've mentioned in the past, the Planet Storytime Podcast has been largely a content experiment for our production team as we've worked hard to understand what our continually growing audience wants from the show. And given the amount of time we put into producing the show, we want to make sure that our efforts are tying back well to our fans' main interests.
Over the past 14 months since our inception, we have produced famous works from famous authors and we have produced original content. The feedback for both story types has been equally positive. But given the amount of time needed to produce our podcasts, we've opted to focus strictly on our own original content, which requires far less development/modernization time.
We're also moving to a new story-telling model with The Beatru Chronicles - a recurring, serial show with each podcast episode produced as single chapters from a much larger story we've been working on the past several months. This will not only help improve our publishing frequency but provide cliff-hangers, longer story arcs and help streamline our production schedule. Most importantly, this shift in content will help us produce better and better podcasts.
We will still occasionally produce one-offs with original content, like our Crow & Beetle stories, but our long-term plan is to focus largely on The Beatru Chronicles and other long-term series. We'd love to share more about Beatru and her adventures but would prefer to save all of that for PSP34. Suffice it to say that Beatru should appeal to our 6-and-up listeners (and hopefully most of adult listeners) who love epic adventures in the vein of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and J.K. Rowling!
We want to thank all of you once again for your endless support - we know you want more content, faster, and it is coming! We feel cautiously confident that The Beatru Chronicles and continued focus on original content will be well-received by our fanbase and intend to have PSP34 published on Black Friday.
Stay tuned!

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Rikki~Tikki~Tavi - PSP32 Sep 26, 2020

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Welcome back to Planet Storytime!!
In this episode of the podcast, we are proud to present Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, by Rudyard Kipling. Many know and love this story, and it has been adapted many times. For Thomas and Paxton, the need to stick as closely to the original story as possible was important, given how well it is written. We did make a few changes but none of these impact the flow of the story.
If this is your first time hearing about Rikki the Mongoose, prepare for a very dramatic, exciting story about bravery, and putting others first! This is the longest single-story podcast in PSP's history and is also one of the scarier stories we've done. We would encouarge our parent-friends to consider this for any kids under age 6.
We have some exciting new material coming out in the next few weeks - stay tuned in for that in the next few weeks!
Thank you for your continued support!
PSP Team

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However You Be & Music from The Wonderful Pump - PSP31 Sep 09, 2020

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Welcome back to Planet Storytime!
Today marks our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Hard to believe 12 months have passed since we released PSP1! We weren't sure what to expect when we started the podcast, but our goal was to create amazing content for kids of all ages and to help all our listeners make full use of their imaginations and the pictures in their head while listening to our stories. One year and 2 seasons in, it's clear that we have an amazing fanbase and friends from all over the world, and that our listeners continue to come back for more stories. We've learned a great deal over the past year and look forward to continuing to produce amazing content as we move towards the end of Season 2 and 2020.
We say it all the time, but THANK YOU(!!!!!) to all of you for supporting our show and for telling your friends about us - we would not still be here if not for each and every one of you! Please keep your emails coming to us with suggestions, ideas, things you like and even things you don't like!
In celebration of our first year together, we want to use this podcast to spotlight one of TM Ganim's most beloved poems from PSP16, However You Be. Two dear friends to our show, Ellie and Stew, recently requested a copy of However You Be to help Ellie through some challenges she's going through (hope you're enjoying it, Ellie!), and we thought we'd feature it in our anniversary show today as a tribute to Ellie and Stew, as well as all of our fans. TM's message in this poem is so important and a source of great clarity during the trying times we often find ourselves in this year. We've also included Pax's soundtrack from our last episode, The Wonderful Pump. We hope this podcast provides soothing and calming thoughts and sounds to each of you!
We have several new original stories in the works as well and will release another Stellar podcast this fall since those really seem to be a great format for our listener friends:)
Please email us with any comments, questions, praise, criticism, or collaboration ideas at planet.storytime@gmail.com. We really do make the time to read each and every email we receive and appreciate the time needed to do so.
Thank you all for listening to the Planet Storytime Podcast during our first year of production! We will continue to deliver new content for everyone as we dive headlong into year two, face to the wind!
With greatest respect and appreciation, the PSP Team!

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The Wonderful Pump - PSP30 Aug 25, 2020

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Welcome back to Planet Storytime!
In this episode of the podcast, Thomas Mitchell and Paxton Stanley deliver one of L. Frank Baum's often overlooked classics, The Wonderful Pump, a story that dramatically illustrates how greed taints best possible outcomes and the crucial need to remain fully mindful when opportunity presents itself.
Once again, we would like to express our gratitude to all of our loyal listeners worldwide! Our audience continues to grow each week and the outpouring of support humbles the entire PSP team! THANK YOU!!
Housekeeping:
- We're less than two weeks away from our 1 year anniversary, and as we head into our second year, we have exciting changes coming, including producing 100% all-original content, and diving deeper into the history of Planet Storytime
- Before we make the change to all-original content, we have a handful of children's classics we intend to produce, including at least a pair of Rudyard Kipling's most famous works
- Given challenges with Covid-19, distributed work, digital learning, etc., our production schedule has lagged behind our intended plans for 2020; we promise that our publication frequency will increase back to 2-3 podcasts/months as soon as possible
- Our much anticipated website will finally roll out in the next few weeks as well
We could literally spend 1000 words expressing our gratitude for your support but we know the best 'thank you' back to all PSP fans is to get more content into everyone's ears. Our first year was largely an experiment to gauge interest levels and overall sustainability. Suffice it to say that the overwhelmingly positive feedback and subscriptions have convinced us to continue making podcasts indefinitely!
Thank you, loyal listeners! Without you our show could not exist!
PSP Team

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Stellar Classics - PSP29 Jul 24, 2020

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Welcome back to Planet Storytime!
In this episode of the podcast, we give you Stellar Classics, five of our favorite, timeless stories from our favorite children's writers from our catalog:
How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin by Rudyard Kipling
How The Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
As with all of our previous Stellar podcasts, this episode features chapter markers, making it very easy to navigate to your favorite stories.
UPDATES:
We have many new stories in production at the moment and will be back with new episodes in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned because we have some exciting stories we're about to release!
Huge thanks to all of our worldwide audience for your continued support! And for those of you who have taken time out of your day to provide us support on Patreon, we are humbled, and grateful to all of you - thank you!
Please be safe and kind and never stop believing in youself!
Tom and Pax

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