{"id":22719,"date":"2024-08-20T23:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=22719"},"modified":"2024-08-20T23:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T21:28:47","slug":"cbeebies-celebrates-heritage-month-by-airing-sleepy-time-stories-in-four-african-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/08\/20\/cbeebies-celebrates-heritage-month-by-airing-sleepy-time-stories-in-four-african-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"CBeebies Celebrates Heritage Month by Airing Sleepy Time Stories in Four African Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To celebrate Heritage Month this year, BBC Studios will be translating seven Sleepy Time Stories on CBeebies into an African language, from Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans. The dubbed episodes will air on CBeebies, DStv channel 306, between 2<sup>nd<\/sup> September \u2013 29<sup>th<\/sup> September every day from 7pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CBeebies is BBC Studios\u2019 dedicated pre-school channel on DStv, providing children aged six years and under a range of programming designed to encourage learning through play. Sleepy Time Stories will help little ones wind down after a day of excitement and get ready for bedtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pierre Cloete, the Commercial Director at BBC Studios in Africa says \u201cTo mark heritage month and celebrate the diversity of our nation, we wanted to shine a spotlight on some of our African languages with the help of our pre-school channel, CBeebies. As CBeebies is for little learners, translating a selection of the Sleepy Time Stories to 4 languages will allow our little viewers and parents to learn or develop their language skills while enjoying the shows throughout September\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CBeebies - Heritage Month\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AbdU8PBqek4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The translated shows will be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Goldilocks and the Three Bears<\/em> (Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Elves and the Shoemaker<\/em> (Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Enormous Radish<\/em> (Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Fox and the Hen<\/em> (Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Magic Porridge Pot<\/em> (Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Ugly Duckling<\/em> (Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Three Little Pigs<\/em> (Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Bluey S2<\/em> Set 1 Episode 26: Sleepy Time (to only be translated to Isizulu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The episodes will also be available to stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@bbcsouthafrica3616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC Studios Africa YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information see here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbcafricachannels.com\/channels\/cbeebies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.bbcafricachannels.com\/channels\/cbeebies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate Heritage Month this year, BBC Studios will be translating seven Sleepy Time Stories on CBeebies into an African language, from Isizulu, Sesotho, Tsonga to Afrikaans. The dubbed episodes will air on CBeebies, DStv channel 306, between 2nd September \u2013 29th September every day from 7pm. CBeebies is BBC Studios\u2019 dedicated pre-school channel on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/08\/20\/cbeebies-celebrates-heritage-month-by-airing-sleepy-time-stories-in-four-african-languages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CBeebies Celebrates Heritage Month by Airing Sleepy Time Stories in Four African Languages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,10],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-22719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online","category-television","tag-cbeebies","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/CBeeBies.png?fit=450%2C196&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}