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Eight-year-old Elsie Dinsmore is enjoying a blissful Christmas holiday season with her family and friends when a crisis arises that threatens life as she knows it. She believes that obeying a request her father has made would violate her conscience, and she must refuse him. He, in turn, believes Elsie is being willful and disobedient, and he fails to see her refusal as a matter of her deep, abiding faith in God.

Elsie Dinsmore is an endearing 8-year-old girl with several bewildering problems. She has never known her mother, who died when Elsie was a baby, and she longs for a close, loving relationship with her father. He, however, has sent her off to be raised at Roselands, his brother's Southern plantation, where her teacher, Miss Day, harshly criticizes her and her cousins tease her relentlessly.

As Elsie Dinsmore grows up and becomes a young woman, her family undergoes major changes. Her father, Horace Dinsmore, falls in love and marries sweet Rose Allison, whom Elsie has loved since childhood. Soon two new members, Horace Jr. and Rosebud, join the happy family.

Join the festivities and discover the joy of giving, coming together and spreading happiness in five new family stories! These uplifting stories are perfect for young children celebrating with their friends and family, or wanting to learn about different Jewish traditions. These stories are aimed at children aged three to six for family listening, learning and the development of young minds.

The entire family is thrown into turmoil, however, when a carriage accident threatens the life and sanity of Grandpa Dinsmore and Aunt Enna, and Violet is burned with a troublesome secret. Everyone in the family is thrilled as young Elsie blossoms under the warmth of new love, but sorrow strikes as Lily is gathered into the arms of the Good Shepherd despite all the efforts to save her life.

A BBC Radio 4 full cast dramatisation of the third adventure in C. S. Lewis' classic Narnia series.

Life in the small fishing village in the south of Calorman is all that young Shasta knows until, one day, he overhears his father planning to sell him into slavery to a stranger and discovers that he is not a fisherman's son after all. Shasta dicovers that the horse is called Bree, and that he comes from a magical land in the North.

Maya RIchter's new faith is put to the ultimate test when her family aims to keep her far away from her new Christian friends. But why doesn't Tom Richter want his daughter spending time with Grace Andrews and the Morrisons? That's just one of the questions that leads the kids on their search for answers to Coleraine's biggest secret.

Meet Maya Richter - the meanest girl in the whole school !In fact, her whole family seems to enjoy pushing their way to the top and letting everyone else know about it. But why don't the Richters want anyone to get to know Grace Andrews? That's what the Morrison kids want to find out as they try to introduce God's love to this hurting family.

A broken family discovers the healing balm of Gilead! Becca and Luke's mom walked out on them when they were kids. Now they're teenagers and starting to figure life out on their own. So why has Joan Taylor come back? With the Morrisons standing close to this hurting family, this season will stretch everyone's faith and trust like no other time in their young lives, and lead them to discover God's overwhelming peace.

Your Story Hour proudly presents a new set of exciting, dramatized stories. Listen as Desmond Doss, the courageous WW2 medic, saves the lives of 75 wounded American soldiers on Okinawa. Or return to the year 1781 as teenager Emily Geiger risks her life to carry a secret message from patriot officer Nathan Greene through enemy lines.

Follow the mid-1800s adventures of the Allen Family as they join a wagon train headed west on the epic Oregon Trail. Traveling over 2000 miles in their oxen-driven "Prairie Schooners" through hazardous river crossings, treacherous weather, mountain passes, tragedy, disease, and devastating dust storms, the Allens symbolize the determination and trials of a typical family who braved the Oregon trek.

Listen as Wassaja, a young Yavapai boy, overcomes the destruction of his village and a violent abduction by a rival tribe, yet by 1899, goes on to become Dr. Carlos Montezuma - the second American Indian to become a physician in the US. Return to the Nebraska plains' Omaha Reservation where Chief Iron Eye's compassionate daughter (Susan LaFlesche Picotte) begins her epic journey, becoming the first American Indian woman physician.

In 1810 a teenage American sailor, Joseph Bates, is abducted by the notorious British press gang. Listen as he is unjustly forced into the King's navy, then escapes only to be seized again. Released six years later, he works as a merchant seaman surviving ocean perils and harrowing storms. Joseph's skill and courage result in his becoming a trusted sea captain. His marine adventures continue, yet Joseph feels the need for faith in his life.

A two-part series on Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccination, two exciting modern-day missionary adventures, and two war-time stories!

Luisa, Bruno e Giulia non possono crederci: i loro ruoli nella recita scolastica di quest'anno sono l'asino, la mucca e la pecora! E questo, sebbene Luisa volesse essere una delle "Tre Regine Magie", Bruno avesse assunto un allenatore di recitazione e Giulia dovesse interpretare 'Maria'! La talentuosa Amina dovrebbe ora ottenere questo ruolo dalla scuola gemellata ed è tutta colpa della cotta segreta di Giulia, Roberto. I tre sono mega-frustrati e Luisa pensa anche a sabotare la performance con un'interruzione di corrente.