Musical Storyland - The Great Race

CBeebies Radio Podcast

BBC

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

3.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Many years ago, the Jade Emperor of China held a race across a great river to decide the order of the years of the Zodiac. The Jade Emperor invited all the animals of the world, but only 12 chose to race.

Some of the animals are clever and crafty, some are easily distracted but they all make it across the river and the Emperor rewards each animal by naming a year in the Zodiac after each one.

Musicians from the BBC Philharmonic are joined by broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake and guest guzheng player Zi Lan Liao to share a musical re-telling of this ancient legend.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Come to a magical place of fairy tales and adventure.
0:10.0	Let the music take you far away to Musical Storyland. land. Welcome to Musical Storyland with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
0:53.3	My name is Nihar and these are my friends and their instruments.
0:58.0	Hello, my name is Silan and I play the Gugent.
1:05.0	My name is Jenny and I play the Piccolo.
1:16.6	My name is Simon and I play the violin.
1:28.3	My name is Jess and I play the cello. Together, we're going to tell the musical story of the Great Race, a tale that is told in China.
2:03.6	Many years ago, the Jade Emperor of China, held a race across a great river to decide the order of the years of the zodiac.
2:24.3	The Jade Emperor invited all the animals of the world, but only 12 chose to race.
2:42.6	Twelve daring animals trying to win the race
2:46.7	for the order of the zodiac, each will find a place.
3:00.6	The river's current was very strong and the rat was small.
3:09.3	He knew he would find it difficult to swim across safely.
3:16.3	But the rat was also clever and so he asked the ox if he could hitch a ride across the water.
3:27.0	The ox agreed and swam them both across.
3:35.0	The rat jumped off and ran to cross the finish line first.
3:45.6	The hard-working ox soon followed behind in second place.
3:55.6	12 dairy Twelve daring animals trying to win the race
4:07.8	For the order of the zodiac, each will find a place.
4:24.0	A tiger was determined and swam fast across the river.
4:32.6	He finished in third place.
4:36.6	The dragon flew up into the sky.
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