Starting August 15, kids and parents alike can enjoy vividly told children’s stories — and the beautiful classical music written to accompany those stories — on KING FM on Saturday mornings.
Saturday Morning Stories, airing each week at 8:30am, will bring beloved characters and classic stories from Paddington Bear to Goodnight, Moon to the airwaves, thanks to a partnership with the Seattle Children’s Theatre.
Here’s the preliminary schedule.
For more details — as well as links to special materials families can download in advance of each broadcast to get even more from these richly told tales — visit the website of the Seattle Children’s Theatre.
All stories begin at 8:30am on each of the following Saturdays:
- Oct. 17: The Firebird
narrated by Natalia Makarova, with music by Igor Stravinsky - Oct. 24: Haleakala: How Maui Snared the Sun
narrated by Richard Chamberlain, with music by Dan Welcher - Nov. 7: The Runaway Bunny (encore)
narrated by Kate Mulgrew, with music by Glen Roven