
AudreyStories
Audrey tells "Bedtime Stories for Adults" in English: set in intriguing countries/places. Parts of the stories are true, the rest is imagination - as all good stories should be. All the stories contain fascinating historical facts about lesser known areas of Guatemala, Cuba, Serbia, South Africa, Bosnia, Mexico, Peru, China, India, Burma and more. These stories make good "Bedtime stories for Adults" who struggle to fall sleep, and are humorous - for easy listening while driving to work. Audrey is a South African Canadian storyteller and writer who has traveled to 41 countries. Some of the stories are in Afrikaans, Audrey's first language.
Episodes
78 episodes
"The Listener." Ecuador.
“The Listener." Ecuador. Our story waits in Ecuador, in a tiny town against the western slope of a majestic mountain. Six extraordinary girls live here. There was a terrible cyclone the year of their birth and everybody believed that thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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15:14

"The Brave Bridge." Mostar. Bosnia.
10. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 10. "The Brave Bridge." Mostar. Bosnia. Once upon a time, in 1555 to be exact, there was an architect named Mimar. He was very talented, and a little arrogant. He told his friends that he would build som...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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8:29

"The Chef on the Ship." 1521. Mexico.
9. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 9. "The Chef on the Ship. 1521. Mexico. Our story sails on a ship in the year 1521. Hernán Cortés is 19 and on his way to conquer and command for Spain. On his ship is an important man: the chef Martin. H...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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8:27

"Aurora Borealis." Northern Lights. Canada.
5. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 5. "Aurora Borealis." Teenagers find it hard to immigrate. In this story, Carissa stays with her piano teacher in Canada while her parents urgently go back to South Africa for 6 weeks. "I did not w...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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32:14

"The Not-so-Secret Suitcase." Cuba.
"The Not-so-Secret Suitcase". Cuba. Aug 13. 2016. There is a 90th birthday celebration for Fidel Castro in the town of Santa Clara, Cuba. Maricela is having a mini-nervous breakdown. A total stranger — a tourist, called Linette, i...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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26:44

"The Heir." Part 6. The End. Panama/Colombia
19. "The Heir." A Journey. Part 6. The End. Panama/Colombia. This is the final episode of our story. We are at the birthday party of Maximillian II in Cartagena, in Colombia. Karli adjusts to the life of "the rich and famous". We then travel to...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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43:18

"The Heir." Part 5. Trip to Colombia. PANAMA.
18. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS 18. "The Heir." Part 5. Trip to Colombia. In this episode, Karli and Willrich travel to Colombia. They do not take one of Willrich's private jets. They fly into the town of Cartagena on a commercial aircr...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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39:40

"The Heir." Part 4. Willrich and Karli. PANAMA.
17. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS 17. "The Heir." Part 4. Willrich and Karli. PANAMA. Why did Willrich (73) decide to give 4 billion dollars worth of "things" (as Karli calls his possessions), to a complete stranger? He was born a billion...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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23:50

"The Heir." Part 3. Karli's Story. PANAMA.
"The Heir." Part 3. Karli's Story. PANAMA. Willrich Otto Schneider picked an heir to his fortune. She is Karli Richter, a woman who tells stories as Podcasts. The German Billionaire is in Panama City. Karli is also here. Willrich organized...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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19:27

"The Heir." Part 2. Willrich's Story. PANAMA.
"The Heir." Part 2. Willrich's Story. PANAMA. This is the 2nd part of the story "The Heir." In this part we hear the life-story of a 73-year-old billionaire. He is called Willrich Otto Schneider of Kleber Industries. We are in Panama City. Will...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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30:35

"The Heir." Part 1. Meeting The Storyteller. PANAMA.
14. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. "The Heir." Part 1- Meeting The Storyteller. PANAMA. 73-year-old German Billionaire -- Willrich Otto Schneider -- is in Panama City at a Podcasting Conference. This rich man decides to give his entire fortune to ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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18:32

"The Symphony of San Sebastian." Mexico.
I travelled on my own to a small village in the mountains of Mexico: San Sebastian del Oeste. I wanted to stay. I had to leave. Therefore—the story of somebody who also wanted to stay, and could. "Katerina liked the name of the town, so she sta...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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19:12

"Hadim's Secret Tulips." Constantinople. 1518.
6. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 6. "Hadim's Secret Tulips." Constantinople. 1518 (Ottoman Empire time). Hadim is a merchant. He travels the 6000km Silk Road to bring back fine silks, new spices and exotic perfumes. He is in love with Sa...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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14:08

"The Magician of Sarajevo." Bosnia.
8. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 8. "The Magician of Sarajevo.". Bosnia.They met in a thunderstorm in Sarajevo, Bosnia and fell in love. This was a love such as no other, for she was in his city on a soul-searching pilgrimage: to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:01

"Maximilian Smiles." Britain.
12. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 12. "Maximilian Smiles." Britain. Maximilian the Second always smiled and that was a problem.
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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29:58

"Carmen Lombardi" Music Backtrack
This version of the story "Carmen Lombardi" has a music and sound effect track added. Bedtime Stories for Adults: set in Italy. Carmen was born invisible. She was child number 5 of 9 children of the famous Lombardi family in Italy. The Lombardi...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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52:57

"The Orange Bucket." Guatemala.
ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS 2. Fun/serious story with a tiny important twist. Do not let the beginning frighten you. I wrote the outline to this story in Guatemala -- because I am a photographer. I took pictures of beautiful churches in...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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14:48

"Kidnapped in Colombia." Cartagena, Colombia. 2020.
13. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 13. "Kidnapped in Colombia." Cartagena. 2020. Carlos kidnapped me in Cartagena in broad daylight. I blame the Marxist guerilla group -- the ELN for this. I was not supposed to be in town on that S...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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28:11

"Storks in Serbia." Serbia.
English Fiction 1. "Storks in Serbia". This is my first English Podcast. I speak Afrikaans as a first language and I write in Afrikaans. This story was published in South Africa in the magazine SARIE. I wrote this in Serbia, in the town ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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27:41

FIKSIE 5. "Noorderligte. Aurora Borealis." 'n Storie uit Kanada. Vir tieners en immigrante.
Immigrante storie. Hierdie storie is vir my oudste dogter. Ek moes haar alleen in Kanada in 'n klein dorpie los, toe sy 'n tieners was, omdat ek dringend SA toe moes gaan. Dit het my hart gebreek. Ek het die storie gemeng met Kanada ondervindin...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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30:31

Bosnië 3. Moeilikheid in Sarajewo. Ek maak 'Kultuur' foute en mense gil op my. Swaar-reis tye.
Episaode 3. As ek so na my eie stories luister, klink dit of ek op 'n Pienk-Wolkie deur Bosnië gefladder het. Nee! Die plek is 'n konstante paradoks en het my so deurmekaar gemaak. Een oomblik kuier ek by 'n towenaar, volgende oomblik gil ieman...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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9:36

FIKSIE 4. "Die Luisteraar." Hierdie kortverhaal is in die tydskrif SARIE gepubliseer.
Ek het hierdie verhaal die nag voor my 4e kind se 18e verjaardag geskryf -- as verjaardag geskenk aan haar. (Skies my ander 3 kinders dat julle nie "18e verjaardag-stories-wat-in-tydskrifte-was" gekry het nie -- bel vir mamma, dan praat ons.) "...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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13:00

FIKSIE 2: "Ooievaars in Serwië". Kortverhaal wat in die "Sarie" gepubliseer is.Ek het dit in Serwië geskryf.
Ek het in oos-Europa gaan reis en in Serwië gaan kuier. Daar is 'n ooievaar op elke lamppaal in die hoofstraat. Hierdie Kortverhaal is in daardie hoofstrraat geskryf... "Karin sit in Serwië plat op die gras met haar rug teen ʼn lamppaal. S...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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13:58

Bosnië 2. Die Towernaar van Sarajewo.
Episode 2. Daar was 'n donderstorm in Sarajewo. Ek het by 'n Towenaar beland. Per ongeluk, genadiglik, of noodwendig.By die lawwe afdak wat as effense reënskerm moes dien, is daar ʼn klein winkeltjie wat lyk soos ʼn kombinasie van Liewe Hek...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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13:06

Bosnië 1. Sarajewo. Somer-Sonstilstand-Dag 2010. "Sy naam is ZLATCO."
Episode 1. Ek het op Somersonstilstand dag, 21 Junie 2010, in Sarajewo aangekom met 'n vliegtuig. Ek was alleen op reis in Oos-Europa. Na Serwië en Hongarye, is ek Bosnië toe.Ek stap agter ʼn streep dorpsmense aan wat kortpad vat deur ʼn veldjie ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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12:53
