Dan from Fun Kids takes a look at the week’s biggest science stories. There’s also some amazing special guests, episodes from our favourite science series, and top experts answering all your science-related questions!
Science has got to be one of the coolest subjects around… there’s so many amazing things to discover, from terrifying triceratops to gigantic galaxies!
So if you love everything science as much as we do, check out the Fun Kids Science Weekly! In each episode, Dan from Fun Kids takes a look at the week’s biggest science stories. There’s also some amazing special guests, episodes from our favourite science series, and top experts answering all your science-related questions!
The Fun Kids Science Weekly is the flagship podcast from the children’s radio station Fun Kids, with over 50,000 downloads each month.
Starting in 2017, the podcast has produced over 100 episodes and has been the recipient of two nominations at the British Podcast Awards in both the Kids & Family and the Radio categories.
The podcast has been popular with advertisers with campaigns for ITV, Learning Resources, Drayton Manor and Young Imagineers.
ITV’s campaign was for its Thunderbirds Are Go franchise and consisted of bumpers, adverts and content from the Thunderbirds characters. Here’s the sponsor credit.
For Drayton Manor we amplified their sponsorship by running promotion on Fun Kids Radio and on the podcast network:
In your exclusive bonus episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, Dan is answering your most burning questions about COLOUR!
Ever wondered how the sky changes from light to dark blue, from brilliant shades of red to deep hues of purple? Or maybe that’s …
Hey hey hey, welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly! Dan is here with Patrick Kane to teach you all about bionic limbs – that’s limbs that are engineered for people who are missing limbs or limb function! Patrick has a book out called Human 2.0, where …
Greetings, Earthling! If you have intercepted this signal, congratulations! You’re about to launch off Earth and take a trip around the solar system… and BEYOND!Â
In this week’s Science Weekly, astronomer Mark Thompson is talking to Dan about the ni…
It’s another Fun Kids Science Weekly! This week, Dan is chatting to expert on the history of science and the natural world, Iszi Thompson! Iszi explains how famous scientists used to believe in magic and gives Dan some strange facts about dinosaur skul…
Would you like to join Dan for a quick trip around the solar system? You would? Well, let’s GO!Â
This week, Dan is chatting to Karen Bennett about the famous steam-powered locomotive, The Flying Scotsman! This train celebrates its 100th birthday this …
It’s another episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, so of course Dan is chatting to another science EXPERT!
This week it’s food scientist Anwesha Sarkar from the University of Leeds, who has done research on the yummiest of snacks – CHOCOLATE! Find o…
It’s Saturday! No packed lunch, no school bells, just another fact-filled episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly.Â
This week Dan’s chatting to Helen Bell, co-author of The Extraordinary Book That Invents Itself! Find out how you can create a whole bun…
There’s a huge breakthrough in nuclear energy, and in this special bonus episode we have one of the scientists behind it – Anne Kritcher from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory joins us to tell us more about what this could mean for the future …
Hello hello hello, class is in session! In this week’s episode, Dan chats to astronomy expert Hayley Smith all about C/2023 E3 (ZTF) – otherwise known as the ‘green comet’! Where does the comet get its colour from, can we predict its journey, and is th…
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