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Voiceover: Come to a magical placeof fairytales and adventure.Let the music take you far away,to Musical Storyland.

Jan: Welcome to Musical Storyland with the 91�ȱ� Philharmonic Orchestra.My name is Jan and these are my friends and their musical instruments.

Sidiki: Hello my name is Sidiki and I play djembe and the calabash.

Jenny: My name is Jenny and I play the piccolo.

Jess: My name is Jess and I play the cello

Jan: Together we're going to tell the musical story of a Ananse and The Monkeys.A tale that is told in the Caribbean.

Once upon a time, Ananse lived in the house with his family.

Everyone in Ananse's house was hungry.His wife was hungry. His children were hungry and he was hungry.

Ananse and his wife talked about what they could do to earn some money.

Why don't you make something to sell at the market, she said.and then we can buy food for the children.

All right. I will, said Ananse.

Ananse had a very useful skill, he knew how to sew.

He went into a little workshop and took out some pieces of cloth his needle and his thread.

He cut the cloth into different shapes he cut the brims and crowns of hats and he began to sew.

He sewed and he sewed and he sewed until he'd made one hat.

He sewed and he sewed and he sewed until he'd made two hats.

He sewed and sewed until he'd made sixteen hats.

Ananse put the hats into a big basket, put the basket on his head

and walked through the forest towards the market.

Ananse had worked very hard that morning and after working and walkingand walking and working, he began to feel a little bit tired.

He saw a huge tree with big leaves that provided shade underneath.

Oh, I'll just take a nap he thought as he put down his basket,put on one of his hats to block out the sun and went to sleep.

Ananse didn't know that up in the tree was the family of monkeys,there were parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, children and cousins.

The monkeys came down and each one took a hat from Ananse's basket.

Fifteen hats on fifteen monkeys heads.

The monkeys liked how they looked.

They did fashion shows and gave each other compliments like ooh ooh ahh ahh ooh ahhhh.

At that moment, Ananse woke up and saw the fifteen monkeyswith his fifteen hats and this is what he said to them:

Excuse me, those are my hats.
Ooh ooh ooh, ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhh.
You don't understand.
Give them back.

Ananse became very frustrated.

He said give me my hats.

And the monkeys said: ooh ooh ooh ahhh

Ananse realised something.

The monkeys copied everything he did.

As an experiment he tried scratching his head.
The monkeys scratched their heads.
Ananse tried making a funny face.
The monkeys made funny faces.

This time Ananse knew what to do.

Excuse me, those are my hats.
Ooh ooh ooh, ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh.
You don't understand give them back.
Ooh ooh ooh, ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh.

Ananse pulled off his own hat and threw it to the ground.

The monkeys copied and the hats rained down from the top of the tree.

Ha! said Ananse. Got you!

Ananse, put the sixteen hats back in his basket, put the basket on his head

and went to the market

He sold each and every hat and used the money he had madeto buy his family a good meal.

He also bought sixteen bananas.

And on his way back, he gave each of the fifteen monkeys a banana,saving one for himself.

Everyone ate their bananas together before a Ananse set off for home.

Goodbye friends, called Ananse.

Ooh ooh ahhh, said the monkeys.

That night Ananse and his family ate a delicious mealand the monkeys slept soundly in their tree, dreaming of hats and bananas.

And from that day on, the chant that Ananse had shared with the monkeysbecame a family favourite.

Excuse me,
those are my hats.
Ooh ooh ooh, ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh.
You don't understand.
Give them back.
Ooh ooh ahhh.