Welcome to the Tinyburg Tales Website! History of Bob Hastings and Tinyburg Tales on Radio Tinyburg Tales audio stories are based on the copyrighted works of the late Robert J. Hastings known to listeners as Bob Hastings. As Bob liked to say, "Tinyburg is thirty-five miles from Bigtown and just seven miles south of Pretense". Rev. Bob Hastings wrote all of the scripts for Tinyburg Tales and he is the speaker you hear narrating the stories. The voice of "Uncle Billy" Cutrell in the introduction belongs to Ed Claybrook. The original producer of the Tinyburg Tales recordings and broadcasts was Jay Greener. The stories were recorded from January 1985, thru the early 1990's, and first broadcast by WIBI, in Carlinville, Illinois. The characters of Tinyburg* are churchgoers, community minded folks, kids and mischievous pets much like you would find in a small town or church setting. In creating Tinyburg and its characters, Bob Hastings drew from his own background in the ministry and his boyhood experiences in Williamson County, Illinois. He was ordained in March of 1942 at the age of 18 and called to a country church at Crenshaw Crossing in Southern Illinois. Many of the rural churches he served throughout his life were in Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Doctoral work at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary took him to Texas and Oklahoma congregations as well. Bob cherished those experiences and took delight in recording Tinyburg Tales as a highpoint of his career. ROBERTJHASTINGS.COM Tinyburg Tales Broadcasts Tinyburg Tales are currently broadcast twice Saturday on Bible Broadcasting Network. Check http:// www.bbnradio.org/ for your time zone schedule and information about online Webcasts. Transcripts of the broadcasts of Tinyburg Tales are not available at this time. * Tinyburg Tales is fiction, and any resemblance to actual places or persons living or dead, is purely coincidental. All Rights Reserved by the Robert J. Hastings Estate 2009