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Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth!

Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth!

By: Dale Shaw
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How would you feel if, all of a sudden, your baby brother started to act just like King Henry the Eighth? This is what happens to a very ordinary boy called Arthur. Arthur enjoys his completely normal life. But then his life is dramatically turned upside down when his baby brother begins appears to be the loud, demanding monarch, asking for lamb shanks, riding the family dog like a horse and making Arthur's life a misery. Told completely in verse (with the occasional aside from the poet to clear the odd thing up) From the author of The Haunted Underpants and originally heard on the acclaimed kids show Double Dip Recess on WFMU radio, Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth is a fantastical, very, very, silly story of Arthur and Henry and how he comes to terms with the fact that, yes, his brother really does seem to be a tiny king in baby form.(Artwork: Rob Flowers: https://www.instagram.com/hellorobflowers/)


A New Alaska production.


Listen to my other podcasts for kids:
The Haunted Underpants: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-haunted-underpants/id1640961361

Sherlock Combs in... The Case of the Vanished Hamster! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sherlock-combs-in-the-case-of-the-vanished-hamster/id1816434614


First heard on WFMU's Double Dip Recess - listen every Saturday morning.

https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/UB

© 2025 Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth!
Literature & Fiction
Episodes
  • Episode 14
    Dec 28 2022

    Arthur had somehow calmed his tiny baby brother, who appeared to be exactly like an old English king called Henry the Eighth, by playing the lute. But would lute playing have consequences that Arthur didn't realise? The thrilling adventure concludes...

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    3 mins
  • Episode 13
    Dec 28 2022

    Arthur was trapped in his bedroom by his little baby brother Henry who had a pointy spear thing and was riding the family dog like a horse! He was demanding lamb shanks in a not very nice way. Could Arthur find a way out?

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    5 mins
  • Episode 12
    Dec 28 2022

    Arthur had been given a lute, an old-fashioned guitar-type-thing, by his rather annoying music teacher. Could the lute help him with his baby brother, who appeared to be exactly like the scary old king, Henry the Eighth?

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    4 mins
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