Fun Kids Book Worms

Hosted ByBex Lindsay

Hear about the latest kids books, meet the authors and listen to them reading their stories. 

Join Bex from the children’s radio station Fun Kids as she meets top authors who tell her about their books and also read us chapters from them!

Fun Kids Book Worms is a great vehicle to reach vociferous readers that combines book reviews with interviews of the country’s famous authors and readings from their brilliant books.

As an environment, the podcast is perfect for publishers wanting to introduce children to new titles. This can be in the form of sponsor credits, spot advertising or sponsored readings/audiobook extracts.

Hachette used the podcast last Summer to talk about their new titles…


All Episodes

Dr Janina Ramirez, Nicki Thornton and Steven Butler

This month’s Book Club is another stonker! 
Dr Janina Ramirez comes into the studio to chat to Bex all about her book “Riddle of the Runes” and her fascination with all things Viking. Then Nicki Thornton pops by to talk about ‘The Last Chance Hot…

Julian Clary, Christopher Edge and Sophie Anderson

This month’s Book Club is another stonker! 
Christopher Edge comes in to chat to Bex about his book ‘The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day’, and his fascination with science. Then Julian Clary and David Roberts pop by to talk about the brand new book …

Danny Wallace, Helena Duggan and Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli

This month’s Book Club is jam packed with book goodness! First up, Helena Duggan, chatting all about her brilliant book ‘A Place called Perfect’, and what inspired her vision for the story. Then Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, the authors of the ‘…

The Fun Kids Gaming Show: Terrible voice actors and Detective Pikachu!

On the Fun Kids Gaming Show this week, N60 Sean is checking out the new Detective Pikachu game for 3DS, and Pikachu has an interesting voice…
Inspired by Pikachu’s voice, we’re counting down the 5 worst gaming voice actors and hearing about your har…

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…

Lissa Evans and Katherine Rundell

The Costa Book Awards winner, Katherine Rundell chats to Bex all about her book The Explorer this week in the Book Club. 
Lissa Evans author of Wed Wabbit, also chats to Bex about her book and about writing in rhyme. Plus, Frankie and Bex give a …

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…

Ali-A and Richard Graham

On this Halloween episode of the Fun Kids Book Club Sean chats to YouTube star Ali-A about his new book Ali-A Adventures: Game On, and Dan is joined in the studio by Richard Graham, author and illustrator of The Cranky Caterpillar. 
Richard also …

Tom Fletcher and Matt Edmondson

Three authors in the Fun Kids studio on this episode of the Book Club. First up, Frankie catches up with author, magician and radio star Matt Edmondson about his brand new interactive book ‘The Greatest Magician in the World.’ McFly star, vlogger and a…