Stories to listen to.

The old fairy tales, unabridged and word for word, as audio dramas to get lost in: every character has a voice of its own, specially composed music and sound effects bring the story to life, and the whole text is there to read along.

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Complete Trailer Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt

The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids

10 min 6 roles, 5 voices ages 4 and up

The old goat has to go into the forest and warns her seven kids about the wolf: they will know him by his rough voice and his black feet. But the wolf is clever. A tale to hold your breath for, unabridged, with a full cast, music and sound effects.

Complete Trailer Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt

Rumpelstiltskin

10 min 7 roles, 5 voices ages 5 and up

A miller boasts to the King that his daughter can spin straw into gold. Now she sits in a room full of straw and weeps, until a little man comes in. He helps her, but not for nothing. The tale of the name nobody knows, unabridged, with a full cast, music and sound effects.

Complete Trailer Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt

The Frog-King, or Iron Henry

12 min 6 roles, 5 voices ages 4 and up

A princess loses her golden ball in a well, and a frog brings it back up for her. But in return he wants to be her playmate, eat from her little golden plate and sleep in her little bed. The first tale of the Grimms' collection, unabridged, with a full cast, music and sound effects.

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What makes Copsetale different

  • Unabridged

    We read the whole text as it was printed, with nothing cut and nothing retold, in translations old enough to belong to everyone.

  • A voice for every character

    We cast every role and set its tone and pauses. We listen to the recording and have lines spoken again until they are right.

  • Music and sound effects

    Every story has its own specially composed title music. Sound effects, from a drip in the well to the coach, make the scenes come alive: an audio drama to get lost in.

  • Read along

    The whole text is there, in time with the recording, and the printed text of the old translation paragraph by paragraph.

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What should we record next?

The wishlist holds fairy tales and stories whose rights we have already checked.

To the wishlist

  • Hansel and Grethel Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt
  • Little Red-Cap Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt
  • Little Snow-white Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt
  • The Golden Goose Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt

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