The Story of Pinocchio
Books & Literature
This is the story of a clever puppet, Pinocchio. Originally written as "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, an Italian author, back in 1883, this narrates the story of a puppet that is carved by a carpenter Gepetto and who treat the puppet like his own son. But Pinocchio is determined to become a real boy and in the process, he learns a great many lessons. Every time he gets stuck in a difficult situation, he lies and lies but mysteriously he finds his nose growing longer with each lie he speaks. He also decides never to give in to his temptations again but his resolutions last only till the next available oppotunity. But finally, he learns his lessons and proves himself to be worthy of being a real boy.
This story is retold from the original book with some editing to suit the taste of our listeners.
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This is the story of a clever puppet, Pinocchio. Originally written as "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, an Italian author, back in 1883, this narrates the story of a puppet that is carved by a carpenter Gepetto and who treat the puppet like his own son. But Pinocchio is determined to become a real boy and in the process, he learns a great many lessons. Every time he gets stuck in a difficult situation, he lies and lies but mysteriously he finds his nose growing longer with each lie he speaks. He also decides never to give in to his temptations again but his resolutions last only till the next available oppotunity. But finally, he learns his lessons and proves himself to be worthy of being a real boy. This story is retold from the original book with some editing to suit the taste of our listeners. If you like the show, support us by becoming a patron on this link: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradio Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com All podcast listening links: http://chimesradio.bio.link/ Connect with us on our social handles to get all content updates: https://www.instagram.com/vrchimesradio/ https://www.facebook.com/chimesradio
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Episodes
Ch 24: Pinocchio Finally Becomes A Boy
3/5/2021
Pinocchio had Geppetto on his shoulders and the two continue to swim until Pinocchio ran out of breadth and started to drown. Suddenly the tuna fish, who Pinocchio has met inside the big fish, came around. Tuna has followed them both to escape and to express her gratitude, tuna took them both to the shore in no time. The father and the son started walking in search of a house or cottage to seek help. They saw the Cat and the Fox. The Cat for so long having feigned blindness had become blind...
Duration:00:09:55
Ch 23: Pinocchio Finds Geppetto
3/5/2021
Pinocchio was inside the body of a big shark and it was very dark around him. He met a tuna fish, called Tunny, who told Pinocchio that the fish is two miles long without counting the tail. Pinocchio called out his plans to escape from there before the big fish has digested him.
Suddenly, Pinocchio saw a light dimly shinning at a great distance. He followed the light and found a little table spread out. On it, a lighted candle stuck into a green glass bottle, and, seated at the table, was a...
Duration:00:07:02
Ch 22: Pinocchio Escapes The Life Of A Donkey
3/5/2021
Pinocchio and Candlewick were feeling extremely bad for having been bad boys and have not listened to good advice from their well-wishers. The coachmen who had brought them there took them to the market and sold them there to a life of hard work as laborers. Candlewick was sold to a peasant to help in the fields and Pinocchio was sold to a circus director who wanted to add a new show of a trained donkey to his theatre.
Pinocchio so wished to have listened to the fairy mother's advice. On...
Duration:00:04:37
Ch 21: Five Months Of Happiness
3/5/2021
Pinocchio decided to join Candlewick on his expedition to the Land Of Toys. As the wagon was full, Candlewick decided to sit on top of the wagon and the coachmen offered Pinocchio his own seat. But Pinocchio decided to ride one of the donkeys which were pulling the wagon. While the donkeys galloped along the stony road, Pinocchio kept hearing a quiet voice warning him to be a good boy and to go back to his fairy mother but he decided to ignore it.
Finally, the wagon reached the Land of Toys...
Duration:00:08:00
Ch 20: The Land Of Toys
3/5/2021
Pinocchio's joy knew no bounds when Fairy asked him to invite all his school friends for a grand breakfast at the Fairy's house. Everyone welcomed him except his friend, Candlewick who was probably the laziest of all his friends. Candlewick had now made plans to go to the Land of Toys, where all days are spent in play and amusement from morning till night. This place apparently had no schools and hence no one had to study. Pinocchio was once again under bad influence and was getting tempted...
Duration:00:04:07
Ch 19: The Return To Fairy’s House
3/5/2021
Pinocchio walked towards the fairy’s house and once he reached there, he pressed the doorbell. He waited for about an hours and finally, a snail looked down from the top window. Pinocchio asked the snail for help but the snail asked him to wait while it comes down to open the main door and shut the window at Pinocchio. After a while, Pinocchio lost his patience and gave a tremendous kick against the house door and stuck his foot there.
The next morning, the snail got Pinocchio a silver tray...
Duration:00:08:00
Ch 18: The Big Shark On The Beach
3/5/2021
On the first day of his school, other students started making fun of him because he was a puppet. But when Pinocchio demanded everyone to respect him and give him space, it helped calm things down. And Pinocchio started to focus on his school diligently. But one day on his way to school, he met a group of seven of his schoolmates. They told Pinocchio that a big shark has shown up on the beach and they are all going to see it. Curious Pinocchio thought he might get to know something about his...
Duration:00:06:48
Ch 17: Pinocchio Again Promises To Be Good
3/5/2021
The woman tried to maintain initially that she was not the fairy but seeing Pinocchio cry for too long, melted her heart and she finally admitted that she was indeed the little fairy with blue hair. Pinocchio felt very happy. Since the fairy has grown a lot while Pinocchio was away, enough to be his mother, he decided to call her his mother.
The fairy asked Pinocchio to be a good boy. She defined good boys as the ones who are obedient, love studies and work, always tell the truth, goes to...
Duration:00:04:42
Ch 16: Pinocchio Finds The Fairy Again
3/5/2021
Pinocchio swam all night in search of his father but was unable to locate him. The next morning, he landed on an island in the middle of the sea and also met a Dolphin who informed Pinocchio that a terrible shark must have swallowed Geppetto in the last night’s storm. He again left to look for his father in fear.
After walking for half an hour, he came to a small country called The Village of the Industrious Bees. He was very hungry, so either he had to work and earn some money or beg it...
Duration:00:08:01
Ch 15: Pinocchio Rides A Pigeon
3/5/2021
Pinocchio was looking for the fairy’s house but was not able to locate it. Finally, he reached the place where the house once stood but there he found a plaque stating, “Here once lived a child with blue hair who was abandoned by her brother Pinocchio” and he started to weep profusely.
Just then a pigeon came and informed Pinocchio that he left Geppetto, his father, on the shore of a large sea three days ago. Geppetto was building a boat to cross the ocean to look for his son Pinocchio. The...
Duration:00:08:04
Ch 14: Pinocchio Discovers The Thieves
3/5/2021
While staying in the doghouse as a watchdog, Pinocchio woke in the middle of the night when he heard some strange whispering sounds coming from the yard. He stuck his nose out of the doghouse and saw four small, hairy animals. They were the weasels. They offered a deal to Pinocchio for not making noise while they stole the chickens and in return he will be rewarded with one chicken for himself. It was the same deal that they had cut out with the previous guard dog.
But Pinocchio made a loud...
Duration:00:04:41
Ch 13: Start Back To Fairy’s House
3/5/2021
Freed from prison, Pinocchio realized all the mistakes he had made till then. So he sets out to return to his father and his blue-haired fairy sister. On the way, he met a terrible monster, a green snake, who was blocking the way. Pinocchio was scared to see the snake so he decided to wait in the hope that it will move out of its way, leaving the road clear. But the snake did not move and hours passed by. Pinnochio stood there wondering if it was dead. As he raised one leg to move over the...
Duration:00:05:33
Ch 12: Pinocchio Is Cheated Off His Money
3/5/2021
The Fox and The Cat have told Pinocchio to wait for twenty minutes over there but he walked impatiently in the town to pass the time. When the time was over he went back to get his coins but saw nothing. He was shocked to see the empty field with no bushes or trees. Over there, he met a Parrot who mocked Pinocchio for being so silly and falling into this trap. The Parrot informed him that the fox & the cat had come back as soon as he left, dug out coins from the hole, and escaped.
Pinocchio...
Duration:00:04:49
Ch 11: Pinocchio Meets Fox & Cat Again
3/5/2021
Pinocchio cried for hours over the length of his nose but the Fairy showed no pity toward him, as she was trying to teach him a good lesson about not lying to anyone else. After a while, when she started to feel sorry for him, she called upon woodpeckers who pecked at his nose to return it back to normal. Fairy told him that she has called for Geppetto too and eager to meet him, Pinocchio left the cottage to meet him on the way. When he reached the big oak tree, he saw the fox and the cat...
Duration:00:07:22
Ch 10: Beautiful Fairy To The Rescue
3/5/2021
The girl with the beautiful blue hair was actually a fairy and she used her magic to rescue Pinocchio from the tree. She asked a large falcon to brought him from the tree and into her cottage. The fairy brought Pinocchio some bitter medicines to help him get better and sat down beside him to hear his story. He then told her everything about the Fire-Eater, thieves, and the gold coins.
When the fairy asked him about the coins, Pinocchio thought that she was also after her money. So he lied...
Duration:00:04:33
Ch 9: The Gang Of Thieves
3/5/2021
Pinocchio, the lame fox, and the blind cat walked a long way towards the Field of Miracles which the fox and cat have said is located in The Land of The Owls. Finally, they stopped at the Inn of the Red Craw-Fish for some rest in the evening. They had a delicious supper and went to their respective rooms for a nap.
After a while, the innkeeper came to wake Pinocchio up and informed him that his friends have already left. Pinocchio quickly gave him a gold join for the supper & stay and left...
Duration:00:07:26
Ch 8: The Present Of Five Gold Coins
3/5/2021
Pinocchio went to meet the Showman, Fire-Eater the next day. Pinocchio told him about his father Geppetto and their poor financial condition. The Fire-Eater gave Pinocchio five gold coins to help them out a bit and asked him to take them straight to his father.
But on his way back home, Pinocchio met a lame fox and a blind cat. He told them how rich he is with the five gold coins and how wisely we want to spend them. But the fox and cat started to give him bad advice. A blackbird perched on...
Duration:00:08:00
Ch 7: Puppets Recognize Pinocchio
3/5/2021
Pinocchio went inside the ‘The Great Puppet Theater’. The performance was already going on. Harlequin and Punch were reciting on the stage and were threatening each other with sticks and blows. People were enjoying the spectacle and at the antics of the two puppets.
Suddenly Harlequin stopped in the middle of the show, turned towards the crowd, and enquired about Pinocchio. All the puppets started shouting “Yes, it is Pinocchio. It is our brother Pinocchio”. Harlequin invited him on stage....
Duration:00:09:03
Ch 6: Pinocchio Goes To The Puppet Show
3/5/2021
On the first day of Pinocchio’s school, he promised Gepetto to be a good boy. On his way to school, he thought of learning arithmetic and earn a lot of money so that he could buy a new coat for his father, Gepetto. But while on his way to school, he heard a noise and started to follow it down the street where he found himself in a large square, full of people.
In the square, a Puppet show was going on called as “The Great Puppet Theater”. Interested in the show, Pinocchio started to bargain...
Duration:00:04:51
Ch 5: Pinocchio Gets New Feet
3/5/2021
Geppetto shared whatever food he had with him with Pinocchio. But as soon as Pinocchio’s hunger was satisfied, he started crying for new legs. But Gepetto decided to punish Pinocchio for his bad behavior which made Pinocchio promise to be a good boy. He also promised Gepetto that he would take care of him.
Geppetto decided to let go of his anger and create a new pair of legs for Pinocchio. But as soon as Pinocchio felt his new feet, he got off the table and started to skip and jump around....
Duration:00:04:46