Synopsis
Three Billy Goats Gruff longed to cross a bridge to graze on a lush meadow beyond, but a big bad troll who liked to eat goat lived under the bridge!
- Programme: Happy Tent Tales
- Episode: 03: Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Channel: CBeebies
- Broadcast year: 2018
- English | Reading | Comprehension | Fairy stories, traditional tales and myths and legends
Licence: ERA Licence required
Free to watch for UK schools, colleges and universities with an ERA Licence
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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