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NEW STORY: Professor Phlegm and the Lost Treasure Hunt

Devin has just moved to the small town Clenchwart, in the middle of the summer holidays, and he is bored out of his wits. He attempts to find a summer job, if only to give him something to do! Upon his search, he is entranced by the strange sounds of w…

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Snakes, spiders and a laughing sickness

Ross Hickles is a Herpetologist and Aquarist at SEA LIFE London, plus he owns over 200 pet animals including spiders, snakes and slugs. This week, he’s chatting to Dan about snakes, difficult creatures to keep and how he got into herpetology!
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Helena Duggan on A Place Called Perfect

Bex chats to author of A Place Called Perfect – Helena Duggan. The book has been shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Bex finds out all about the book and what it’s like being shortlisted for such a big prize!

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The plastic tide and spewing in space!

Peter Kohler is the founder and director of The Plastic Tide, a charity made up of ocean, science and tech enthusiasts obsessed with working out ways to keep our beaches and seas clear of marine litter and plastics. This week, he’s chatting to Dan abou…

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Meghan Trainor

Superstar singer Meghan Trainor has a brand new single and Sean finds out all about it and what Meghan has been getting up to!

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Sammy Tzatziki’s Storm Cloud (Bryony Brownwell’s Mystery Project)

Episode 10: Sammy’s fed up of being the only one without a superpower. And on a school trip to the Freedom Fortress, he decides he’s had quite enough of the others going on about all their magic skills, thank you very much! But when he stom…

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking, one of the most influential scientists of our time, sadly died this week at the age of 76. He was famous for his work on black holes and relativity and so this week Dan chats to Josh Barker, from the National Space Centre all about how…

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Danny Wallace on Hamish and the Baby Boom

Comedian and Writer Danny Wallace presents the latest book in his Hamish Ellerby series with his new book Hamish and the Baby Boom! It’s the fourth book in the series which follows Hamish on his adventures with his friends.   

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US vs UK and laying Britain’s railway lines!

This week on the Fun Kids Download, Robot is asking ‘what gets wetter the more it dries?’.
What’s the difference between the British Prime Minister and the American President? Do you know? We find out all the similarities and differences between …

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The Smoochy Smoothie Saga (Bryony Brownwell’s Mystery Project)

Episode 9: Izzy’s love potion seems to have worked, but soon things get out of hand and she wants to reverse it. Unfortunately, when she heads back to the Bubbly Green Lab, Doctor Dimples is nowhere to be found! What’s worse, nobody there h…

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