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Free money and Bike Week

On this week’s episode of The Week Junior Show, we’ll be talking about Bike Week, plans for a ‘Summer of Play’ and 50 years of movie makers Lucasfilm. Plus, we’ll have a debate all about whether adults should be given free money.
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The Attic Under the Floor

This week’s story is all about a girl who stumbles across a secret attic that she visits every night when she goes to bed.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Poetry Joust

The knights have successfully completed their ecoquest and found, with help from Pete the Piper, the long lost Fountain of Frank. Much to the relief of the King, Queen and Princess Aqualine…
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Written by Martin Kiszko, Produced and Directed b…

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Ben Bailey Smith chats Something I Said

Ben Bailey Smith (previously Doc Brown) has written a book! It’s a funny, big-hearted story about family, friendship and how far one boy will go to get a laugh. For thirteen-year-old Carmichael Taylor, life is one big joke – in a good way. He just…

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Colliery Disaster (Adventures Through Time)

The Black Country was famous for coal mining back in the day! But working in the mines wasn’t just a pretty horrible job because it was so hard, dark, and dirty work; it was also really dangerous. You could be crushed by falling rock, suffocate on gass…

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Colliery Disaster (Adventures Through Time)

The Black Country was famous for coal mining back in the day!
But working in the mines wasn’t just a pretty horrible job because it was so hard, dark, and dirty work; it was also really dangerous.
You could be crushed by falling rock, suffocate on ga…

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Bear Grylls and chalk lollies

Adam and Dan have an archery face-off – Dan’s at Bear Grylls Adventure in Birmingham this week to give it a go. 
Bex gives us loads to do across the UK and Adam’s giving us an at-home craft we can all complete – chalk lollies (just do…

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The Prisoner Poet

The eco-knights have not only had the map showing the location of the Fountain of Frank taken – but also all their armour and clothes! Now they’re locked up in just vest and pants in King Frank’s dungeon and no one knows where they are…

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Could Humans Be Venomous?

Agneesh Barua tells us how humans could be venomous, why is the sea colder the deeper you go and could we survive without any animals on the planet? All on this weeks Fun Kids Science Weekly?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Keeping Us Warm (Adventures Through Time)

You might take being warm and cozy in your house for granted, but the people of the Black Country definitely didn’t back in the Victorian era! Most people back then had to rely on fire in their homes to keep warm. With finding the fuel for the fire, st…

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