You're up to Dot, with 85 minutes still to know show. For everyone who's simply dotting it out, Alexa. Hey guys, today we are looking at a really good skill for anyone who wants to keep children occupied and maybe a little bit informed as well. It's called Oxford Bookworms Adventures, and they're a series of really nice interactive audio adventures for kids.
Alexa, open Oxford Bookworms Adventures. Welcome to Oxford Bookworms Adventures. There are four interactive stories that you can choose from. Survive, The White Stones, Oranges in the Snow, and Mystery in London.
Which adventure would you like to play? Mystery in London. Mystery in London. It is the year 1898, and you are Mycroft Pound, the famous detective.
You are sitting in your house in London, one cold November evening. There is a knock at the door. It is Inspector Freewell of the London Police. Can you come to Whitechapel, Mr.
Pound? We need your help. There's a woman in the street. She isn't dead, but there's blood everywhere.
We think it's the Whitechapel killer again. You put on your coat. The Whitechapel killer attacks people with a long knife. Six women are dead because of him.
You arrive in Whitechapel, and the police are waiting for you there. The woman is lying in the street, near the Rosencrown. She is very ill, so she cannot talk to you. You see some bicycle tracks on the road.
Do you want to follow the bicycle tracks? Do you want to go into the Rosencrown to talk to the people there? Go into the Rosencrown. There are four people in the Rosencrown.
You want to ask some questions about the woman in the street. Who do you talk to first? Do you want to talk to the old man? Do you want to talk to the young man?
Do you want to talk to the old woman? Do you want to talk to the young woman? Help. Let's see what we have.
To hear this section of the story again, say, read story again. To go back to the section before this one, say, go back one. To start the adventure again, say, start again. Or, to choose a different adventure, say, choose different adventure.
Okay. Speak to the old man. Do you know the name of the woman in the street? You ask the old man.
He cannot hear you, and he does not answer. Do you want to talk to the young man? Do you want to talk to the old woman? Wow.
Do you want to talk to the young woman? Talk to the young woman. Hopefully she'll be able to hear. Do you know the name of the woman in the street?
You ask the young woman in the Rosencrown. This desperately need to... She comes out into the street and looks at her. Speed.
Button. I don't know her name, but she has a friend called Rosie. Ask her. Where does Rosie live?
You ask. She lives in Limehouse Street. Do you want to go back to the Rosencrown to talk to the other people? Do you want to go to Limehouse Street to find Rosie?
Stop. Thank you for playing. To find hundreds more great stories, search for Oxford Bookworms on the Oxford University Press website. Goodbye.
Well, I was expecting that the track in the snow, the bicycle blood track thing, would also be an option still, but no, I don't know. Gosh, that was so slow. Now, at the beginning, I said this was for kids, and the story we picked is talking about long bloody knives, but it's also being spoken in a way that sounds like it's for very, well, dim children, really. Very slow talking.
Anyway, good story. It looks good anyway. This is called Oxford Bookworms Adventures, and give it a go. There's at least four adventures there, and if you're into those kind of stories, then there's tons more on that website that I just mentioned.
Cool. Give it a go, guys. This is Robin signing off, and we'll speak again tomorrow. Feedback, comments, demos.
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