The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Audio Drama


Mark Twain's 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Part 1 


Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer tells the story of Tom, an imaginative and mischievous young boy in mid-nineteenth century in St. Petersburg, Missouri,  who never passes up a chance for an adventure.

Tom Sawyer lives securely with the knowledge that his Aunt Polly loves him dearly. When she scolds him or whips him, he knows that inside her heart lurks a hidden remorse. 

Telugu Version  from Prasar Bharati Kids


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Part 2 

Tom comes late to school one morning. When the schoolmaster asks Tom why he is late, the empty seat beside Becky catches his eyes. Recklessly he confesses he stopped talking to Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunk. For associating with Huckleberry Finn, Tom is whipped by the schoolmaster and ordered to sit on the girl's side of the room. Amid the sniggers of the entire class, he takes the empty seat next  to Becky.

Telugu Version from Prasar Bharati Kids 

 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -Part 3

That night, Tom hears Huck's whistle below his bedroom window. Sneaking out, Tom joins his friend, and the two go off to the cemetery. The gloomy atmosphere of the burial ground fills the  boys with apprehension, and their fears increase when they spy three figures- Injun Joe, Muff Potter and Doctor Robinson. Evidently they have come to rob a grave. When the two robbers exhume the body, they begin to quarrel with the doctor about money. In the quarrel, the drunken Potter is knocked out. Then Injun Joe takes Potter's knife and kills the Doctor. When Potter recovers from his blow, he thinks he has killed Robinson. Injun Joe allows Potter to believe himself guilty. 

Telugu Version from Prasar Bharati Kids 


 
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Part 4

Terrified, Tom and Huck slip away from the scene, afraid that if Injun  Joe discovers them and  he will kill them too.

Tom loses all interest in life, brooding over what he and Huck saw in the graveyard. He meets Joe Harper and Huck Finn, and they go to Jackson's Island and pretend to be pirates. They are beginning to get homesick when they hear a steamboat. Then the boys realize that the townspeople are searching for their bodies.

Telugu Version from Prasar Bharati Kids 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Part 5
The  discovery of townspeople searching for their dead bodies puts a new aspect on their adventure. Gleeful, Tom cannot resist the temptation to see how Aunt Polly is reacting to his death. He slips back to the mainland one night and into his aunt's house, where Mrs.  Harper and Aunt Polly are mourning the deaths of their mischievous but good-hearted children. 

When Tom returns to the island, he finds Joe and Huck tired of their game and ready to go home. Tom proposes to them an attractive plan which they immediately decide to carry out. When the funeral procession is about to start, Tom, Joe and Huck March down the aisle of the church into the arms of the startled mourners. For a while, Tom is the hero of all the boys in the town.

Telugu Version from Prasar Bharati Kids 


 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -Part 6


After Muff Potter is jailed for the murder of the doctor in the graveyard, Tom and Huck swear to each other they will never utter a word about what they saw. Being afraid that Injun Joe will murder them in revenge, they furtively sneak behind the prison and bring Muff food and other cheer; but Tom cannot let an innocent man be condemned. At the trial, he appears to tell what he saw on the night of the murder. While Tom speaks, Injun Joe, a witness at the trail springs through the window of the courtroom and escapes. 

Telugu Version from Prasar Bharati Kids 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Part 7 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Part 8 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Part 9 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Part 10 

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