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Telling Tales winner Thom Chesser

The winner of the 2008 National Year of Reading Telling Tales competition Thom Chesser.

Winning Telling Tales entry from Brighton by Kaye Shane

A reading of The Snail and the Whale.Filmed in Brighton at a Telling Tales event.

Beverley Williams, regional winner of Telling Tales for Leicester

Beverley Williams reads Cock-a-doodle-do

Telling Tales regional winner for Leeds, Richard Mills

A reading of Daisy at a Telling Tales event in Leeds.

The winning Telling Tales entry from Manchester, by Tess Hebditch

A reading of The Big Old Bear Who Swallowed a Fly filmed in Manchester at a Telling Tales event.

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