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500 Words' Bedtime Stories
Winning children's stories from BBC Radio 2's 500 Words. Listen to 500 Words' Bedtime Stories online with a synced transcript. Replay sentence by sentence, check translations, get AI explanations, and shadow each line in GoodScriber.
24 audio lessons, 12 h 41 min in total. Levels: Intermediate.
Lessons
| # | Title | Length | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The 500 Words Final | 33:10 | Intermediate |
| 2 | You Can Count On Your Friends | 42:51 | Intermediate |
| 3 | Happy Endings | 40:10 | Intermediate |
| 4 | Teamwork Makes The Dream Work! | 39:37 | Intermediate |
| 5 | What Adventures Will You Go On Today? | 39:33 | Intermediate |
| 6 | It’s Up To You How Far You’ll Go. If You Don’t Try, You’ll Never Know! | 43:46 | Intermediate |
| 7 | With a Little Determination... | 42:05 | Intermediate |
| 8 | And The Winner is....... | 37:22 | Intermediate |
| 9 | Wiley Words and Pesky Punctuation | 24:18 | Intermediate |
| 10 | Mighty Misfits | 31:04 | Intermediate |
| 11 | Fairytales and Fantasy | 28:41 | Intermediate |
| 12 | Magical Tales | 29:00 | Intermediate |
| 13 | A Taste Of Freedom | 27:45 | Intermediate |
| 14 | Technology | 26:17 | Intermediate |
| 15 | All The Colours | 25:59 | Intermediate |
| 16 | Our Natural World | 31:21 | Intermediate |
| 17 | Heaps Of Heroism | 25:21 | Intermediate |
| 18 | The Big Smoke | 28:11 | Intermediate |
| 19 | Better Together | 29:21 | Intermediate |
| 20 | Other Worlds | 31:15 | Intermediate |
| 21 | The Memory Palace | 28:22 | Intermediate |
| 22 | The Force of Fate | 30:45 | Intermediate |
| 23 | 500 Words Returns with a Gaggle of Giggles | 25:30 | Intermediate |
| 24 | Ever So Eclectic | 19:27 | Intermediate |
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