• Friday Barnes and the Case of the Christmas Pinata
    Nov 10 2026

    It's the first night of Mexico City's Las Posadas Christmas festival, and Friday Barnes is chasing Ian Wainscott through an art gallery as he tries to steal a painting. Will she catch up to him? Does she want to? Will they have a happy Christmas?

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    21 min
  • Bonus Episode - 'Rama and the Unbendable Bow' as told by Nanny Piggins - Diwali rerun
    Nov 7 2026

    I'm rerunning this episode because it's Diwali this week. I know this isn't quite the same story as Diwali, but it's about Rama and it's the start of his epic tale that ends up with the celebration of lights.

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    22 min
  • 'Odysseys and the Final Trick' as told by Nanny Piggins
    Nov 3 2026

    In the final days of the Trojan War, Odysseus has her most ingenius idea ever - the Trojan Pig! Unfortunately, when it's built it doesn't look like a pig it looks like a horse.

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    27 min
  • 'Odysseus and the Luck of Troy' as told by Nanny Piggins
    Oct 27 2026

    Having killed all the great Trojan heroes - Paris, Hector, the Queen of the Amazons etc - there is one thing left for the Greek army to do before they can overrun the city. They must steal the Luck of Troy. Luckily Odysseus has a cunning plan.

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    18 min
  • Friday Barnes and the Case of the Missing Homework + Q&A LIVE at the CWF
    Oct 20 2026

    This is me performing 'Friday Barnes and the Case of the Missing Homework' as well as answering questions from the audience when I was at the Canberra Writers' Festival performing in the National Library.

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    33 min
  • 'Paris is such a rotter' as told by Nanny Piggins
    Oct 13 2026

    Having just killed Achilles, Paris thinks he is on top of the world. But one dreadful mistake later and he is on a slippery slope to his doom. He may be able to slay the greatest Greek warrior of all time but can he survive his wife finding out that he is already married to a mountain nymph?

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    18 min
  • 'Ajax goes Berserk' as told by Nanny Piggins
    Oct 6 2026

    Nanny Piggins continues the story of the Trojan War, she's up to the bit where Ajax goes berserk and the hero with the stinky foot returns.

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    23 min
  • Nanny Piggins and the Duel at Dead Man's Gorge
    Sep 29 2026

    I have been on tour for the release of Friday Barnes 14 for the last two weeks. I ran out of time to write and record a fresh episode for this week so I'm dropping a rerun of one of my all time favourite Nanny Piggins stories.

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    24 min