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An illness that turns humans into trees and donating our organs

2018 is the year of engineering! So Dan has sent our resident inventor Sir Sidney McSprocket all over the country to chat with real life engineers to find out which famous inventors inspired them! 
Plus Dangerous Dan is looking at an illness…

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Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo on Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

Writers of the best-selling book ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’ join Bex in the studio to chat all about the second book in the series, where the idea for the books came from, what makes a rebel girl and their favourite women from the …

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Slime and what is the longest word in the dictionary?

This week on the Fun Kids Download, Robot has a confusing riddle! 
Bex and Dan are taking a trip on a train and learning that in the future the railways are going to have to change and the painting explorers are looking at what happens when a fam…

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Izzy Debacle’s Chemistry Class (Bryony Brownwell’s Mystery Project)

Episode 8: Star science pupil Izzy’s won an internship at the Bubbly Green Laboratory. But she wasn’t expecting her mentor, Doctor Dimples, to teach her how to make a love potion on her first day! Hmm, who will she use it on?!See omnystudio…

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Kids invent stuff and the coldest city in the world

Ruth Amos is from the YouTube channel Kids Invent Stuff, and is chatting to Dan all about the cool things they’ve been inventing, and bringing the inventions to life! 
Plus if you think you’re cold in the snow this week, Dangerous Dan is looking …

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Christian O’Connell, MG Leonard and Katherine Woodfine

Three fab authors join Bex in the Book Club this month! First up, it’s Christian O’Connell, chatting all about making radio when he was young and how Grandad is getting involved in the second of the ‘Radio Boy’ books. Beetle expert and brilliant author…

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Chris Hoy on Flying Fergus

Dan chats to Chris Hoy, Joanna Nadin and Clare Elsom who created the Flying Fergus books to find out all about Fergus and the parallel universe of Nevermore!Find out more about the book at: http://www.funkidslive.com/interviews/sir-chris-hoy-chats-new-…

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HRVY and the Tooth Fairy

All the big guests this week on the Fun Kids Download – singing superstar HRVY joins Sean in the studio to chat all about his most embarrassing moment ever and the ‘deep chats’ going down on The Vamps Night & Day Tour. Plus an exclusive interview t…

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Mr Pondfrog’s Posh Pets (Bryony Brownwell’s Mystery Project)

Episode 7: The quest to discover where Ginger’s dog learnt to dance leads Bryony and the gang to Mr Pondfrog’s Circus, even though Ginger’s mum warned them never to go there after dark… But a chance encounter with a posh tiger …

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Working at mission control, a scary cloud and how to make a hadron collider

Libby Jackson is the Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Programme Manager for the UK Space Agency, and she chats to Dan all about what she does, how she got into her job and all about what scientists want to achieve in space in the future. 
Plus …

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