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Bryony’s Big Secret (Bryony Brownwell’s Mystery Project)

Episode 2: Bryony Brownwell has a very crazy super secret superpower, and when she starts spending more and more time with the rest of the gang at the ice-cream van, she’s worried they’ll find out. What if they tell Headmaster Crump? What i…

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A woman who speaks to vegetables and talking paintings

In the first episode of 2018 we kick things off with a new riddle from Robot and it’s got us scratching our heads!
In The News To Amuse we speak to a woman who has invented a device to talk to vegetables and find out about the world’s smartest super c…

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YouTuber Charlie McDonnell and why do we get tummy butterflies?

YouTube star Charlie McDonnell a.k.a charlieissocoollike joins us to talk about his love for all things science! Charlie was the first YouTuber in the world to reach 1 million subscribers and his latest videos answer science questions, like why do…

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The Patchy Prefects (Bryony Brownwell’s Mystery Project)

Episode 1: Bryony Brownwell hates homework and definitely isn’t prefect material! But when her Headteacher reads out her name on the list of new prefects, Bryony’s year is going to turn out very differently!See omnystudio.com/listener for p…

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Nadiya Hussain on Bake Me a Festive Story

Bake Off star Nadiya Hussain comes into the studio to chat to Bex all about her new book ‘Bake Me a Festive Story’. 

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Katherine Rundell on ‘The Explorer’

Author Katharine Rundell chats to Bex about her book ‘The Explorer’, in which a group crash land in the Amazon rainforest!
Plus Katherina talks about what it was like being shortlisted in the Costa Book Awards for the Children’s Book…

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Olaf Falafel on Father Christmas Heard a Parp!

Author, comedian and illustrator Olaf Falafel comes into the studio to chat to Bex all about his new book ‘Father Christmas Heard a Parp’.
He tells us about how his daughters helped him come up with the parp noises and teaches us how to ma…

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Zach King on his book ‘My Magical Life’

Youtube magic sensation Zach King joins Sean to chat all about his book ‘Zach King: My Magical Life’, its amazing augmented reality feature and how he started on Youtube!

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A Big Christmas Guest and Some Christmas Science!

There’s a big christmas feel to this week’s episode. Robot has a winter riddle, we speak to the director of John Cena’s new film Ferdinand and the big man himself, Father Christmas, pops by to give us an update.
We also fit in a trip back to 1914 to e…

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Matt Haig, Nadiya Hussain and Olaf Falafel

On this Christmas special episode of the Fun Kids Book Club, we have three brilliant authors chatting about their christmassy books! 
Nadiya also gives us a reading of a poem from her book, and Imogen gives us 5 christmas picks to read this holid…

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