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:
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…
Happy Saturday, it’s another Fun Kids Science Weekly!
In this episode, Dan chats to animal expert Philippa Forrester on her new book, Amazing Animal Journeys! Find out about Philippa’s own experience with animals, including an unlikely orca sighting….
In THIS fantastic spacey episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, Dan chats to a member of the lab who managed to briefly recreate the energy of the SUN, Annie Kritcher all the way from California! Find out what this could mean for the future of energy!…
In THIS fantastic spacey episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, Dan chats to a member of the lab who managed to briefly recreate the energy of the SUN, Annie Kritcher all the way from California! Find out what this could mean for the future of energy!…
This week Dan is chatting to Anna Horleston, Planetary Seismologist all about the recent information from NASA’s InSight Mars Mission – which will help us figure out just what Mars is made of! We also find out the gross way that Echidnas keep cool in A…
This week Dan is chatting to natural world expert and science advisor to Beano, Helen Pilcher! Are scientists trying to bring back woolly mammoths?! How are they going about this? Helen tackles this and other prolific scientific mysteries, such as… t…
Happy New Year, it’s a brand new episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly! We’ve got tons of cool science to kick off 2023. This week, Dan chats to animal expert Clara Wilson on how dogs can tell when we’re stressed, and where this research could lead in…
It’s the end of 2022, and Earth has completed another calendar orbit around the sun. A lot of science has happened in that time! Let us reflect…
In this special edition of Science Weekly, Dan revisits conversations with four brilliant guests from 20…
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