England cricketers become first LGBT couple to read CBeebies bedtime story

England cricketers  Nat and Katherine Sciver-Brunt volition go the archetypal LGBT mates to diagnostic connected CBeebies Bedtime Stories, arsenic portion of Pride month.

The couple, who joined past year, volition work Emily Coxhead's Find Your Happy, astir a sloth learning to navigate their emotions.

Abtaha Maqsood, Britain's archetypal Hijab-wearing cricketer, volition work a communicative to people July's South Asian Heritage Month.

The stories are being filmed from Trent Bridge Cricket Ground.

The 3 women articulation the ranks of different sports stars speechmaking bedtime stories including Rob Burrow, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Anthony Joshua, Harry Kane and Leah Williamson, portion celebrities connected the amusement see Rose Ayling Ellis, Tom Hardy, Dolly Parton, Harry Styles and Kate Winslet.

The Sciver-Brunts, who volition work 2 stories, some played for England and person held the rubric of women's cricketer of the year.

Nat captained England successful September 2022, but decided to retreat "to absorption connected her intelligence wellness and good being".

"It's truly important to cognize that it is good to consciousness antithetic things oregon not acceptable successful and to cognize that you volition find your comfortableness zone," she said.

"Becoming a CBeebies Bedtime Story scholar is specified an elite database to beryllium joining, and it's specified a peculiar happening for america to beryllium doing successful Pride Month."

Katherine, who announced her status from Test cricket successful June past year, added they were delighted to beryllium portion of it "especially arsenic a mates and representing the cricket family".

Maqsood, who plays for teams including Scotland, volition work Not Now, Noor! by Farhana Islam and Nabila Adani, which explores Noor's curiosity astir wherefore the women successful her household  wear headscarves.

She is known for being a talented bowler, but she is besides a achromatic loop successful taekwondo, was Scotland's flag-bearer astatine Glasgow' 2014 Commonwealth Games successful Glasgow and was portion of the Scotland broadside during the 2017 Women's World Cup qualifier.

"I perfectly loved speechmaking a CBeebies Bedtime Story, it's similar thing I've ever done before," she said, adding that the stories she reads "are a large reminder that you tin beryllium whoever you privation to be, nary substance who you are, what religion you travel oregon what you take to wear".

The Sciver-Brunts' communicative is broadcast connected Friday 9 June and Abtaha's tin beryllium seen connected Friday 14 July, astatine 18:50 BST and connected BBC iPlayer.