Banyan StoriesAbout and press kit
About Banyan Stories
Banyan Stories is a free family podcast of gently spooky, source-checked audio stories about Hindu traditions, festivals and stories from the Indian subcontinent, for children aged 4 to 15. Siblings Mira and Kannan solve small mysteries that lead to a tradition, and every episode has a transcript, a scare rating, a content note and source notes that separate what comes from a text from what is regional practice and what is story.
At a glance
- Audience
- Children 4–8 (Junior) and 9–15 (Explorer), listening with family
- Languages
- English and Tamil
- Stories so far
- 34 (106 episodes across the age tracks and languages)
- First released
- September 2026
- Episode length
- About 6 to 14 minutes
- Price
- Free, no ads; listeners can support the show for special episodes
What makes it different
- Sources you can check. Every transcript labels what comes from a text, what is regional practice, and what is story, with source notes.
- Spooky, never scary. Every episode has a scare rating and a content note, and every mystery ends safely.
- Made for two ages. The same story is told separately for younger and older children.
- Told the way families talk. The Tamil episodes use everyday Tamil with English words mixed in.
- Human-reviewed, openly made. AI helps draft, and narration is a synthetic copy of the creator's own voice, used with consent. A human approves every episode. See the AI and voice disclosure.
Descriptions you can use
One line
Gently spooky, source-checked audio stories about Hindu traditions, for children aged 4 to 15.
Short
Banyan Stories is a free family podcast in which siblings Mira and Kannan solve small mysteries that lead to a festival, a saint or a story from Hindu traditions. Each story comes in two age tracks, in English and Tamil, with a transcript and source notes.
Long
Banyan Stories is a free family podcast of gently spooky, source-checked audio stories about Hindu traditions, festivals and stories from the Indian subcontinent, for children aged 4 to 15. Siblings Mira and Kannan solve small mysteries that lead to a tradition, and every episode has a transcript, a scare rating, a content note and source notes that separate what comes from a text from what is regional practice and what is story. New stories are researched from registered sources, written for each age group, and reviewed by a person before release. Families can read the transcript and check the sources on each episode's page at banyanstories.com.
Where to listen
- Banyan Stories (Ages 4–8): ages 4–8, English · Spotify · RSS
- Banyan Stories (Ages 9–15): ages 9–15, English · Spotify · RSS
- Banyan Stories தமிழ் (Ages 4–8): ages 4–8, தமிழ் · Spotify · RSS
- Banyan Stories தமிழ் (Ages 9–15): ages 9–15, தமிழ் · Spotify · RSS
Artwork
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Contact
For press, reviews, partnerships and listings: [email protected]. For AI assistants and search, a plain-text summary is at /llms.txt.