Rita Boutros

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436 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

Rita Boutros’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I've got a young family to look after, and my wife doesn't like me to be away long.

And he flew off.

There were sheep grazing in the field on the other side of the hedge, and one of them came munching close to the bramble bush.

Oh, please, Mrs Sheep, said the fairy, can you help me out here?

Oh what would you give me if I do?

said the sheep.

I will teach you to sing as the fairies sing, said the fairy.

I will also give you wisdom.

For she was getting more and more anxious, and she thought such lovely gifts would tempt the sheep.

But the sheep stared stupidly with her glassy eyes.

That's all very well, she replied, but I happen to have a very nice voice naturally, and can already sing rather well.

and as for wisdom, I don't quite know what that is, but

I don't think it sounds very interesting.

I'd help you gladly, but the thorns would tear my fine woolen coat, and that would never do.

Surely a fine woolen coat is worth much more than wisdom.

And she moved away.

The fairy was beginning to despair.

She thought she would never, never be able to get back to Fairyland.

But just as she had given up hope, a pig came wandering past, making ugly noises and staring about with his little blue eyes.

He spied the fairy sitting in the midst of the bramble bush, with her head down on her knees,

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