Emma Chambers
is perhaps best known for her role as Alice, the dizzy verger in
The Vicar of Dibley
, for which she won a
1998 British Comedy Award
for Best Actress. She also starred as Charity Pecksniff in
Martin Chuzzlewit
, and in
The Secret Garden
and
Drop The Dead Donkey
. On film, she has appeared as William's zany sister Honey in '
Notting Hill
and in
Bridget Jones's Diary
and
Mickey Blue Eyes
. Her many theatre credits include
Tartuffe
at the Almeida,
Trelawney of the Wells
and
Invisible friends
at the Royal National Theatre and Henceforward in the West End.
It is Midsummer's Eve. Blossom, the Royal Dressmaker, and her assistants, Nightwing, Fancy, Trip and Pod, are hard at work. The Fairy Queen must have her new dress by midnight in time for the Midsummer Ball, and there are still a thousand pearls to be sewn on to it!
To pass the time they take turns telling stories — stories no human child has ever heard before. For these are fairy tales as told by the fairies, and though some of them may seem just a little familiar, they have a most unusual viewpoint.
Now you can eavesdrop on the fairies as they chat to each other and tell their stories.
Stories told by the fairies: The Seahorse and the Kelpie King When I was a tooth Fairy Princess Curly Long Locks The Shoemaker and the Robber Elves One Pumpkin, Five Dears and Three Good Wishes
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