The Space Programme

Hosted BySpace Programme

A drama serial with a rocket launch and perhaps the first child astronauts.

A small Scottish island is shocked to find itself home to a brand new space program. When two tech entrepreneurs announce their plan to make one of the local kids the world’s first child astronaut, nothing is ever the same again.


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Flatbread and learning about muscles

This is Stuck at Home, the brand new daily podcast from the children’s radio station Fun Kids packed with things to try, do, and listen to. Whatever brings you to this podcast, we’re here to keep you company. 
In this episode, we&rsqu…

Camera-stealing crabs and shaving foam rain

This is Stuck at Home, the brand new daily podcast from the children’s radio station Fun Kids packed with things to try, do, and listen to. Whatever brings you to this podcast, we’re here to keep you company. 
In this episode, Ben fro…

Singing songs and testing your space knowledge

Today, Conor’s giving us a rendition of Baby Shark. He’s been learning the guitar for the past week and today we find out just how much time he’s had on his hands.
We’re also chatting to someone from The Week Junior Show to fin…

Painting eggs and quiz shows at home

Today, it’s crunch time for Conor – we’ve challenged him to learn a song on the guitar. We’re finding out how he’s getting on ready for his big performance tomorrow, we’re chatting to someone from The Week Junior Sho…

Spaghetti trees and whale vomit

Features editor Ben, writer Michael and assistant editor of The Week Junior’s monthly Science+Nature magazine, Stevie chat to Bex about what’s going on in the world.
This week we’ll be celebrating an animal success story, finding out about…

New ways to play and poetry writing

Play expert Claire Russell give us some top tips for things to do, we’re giving you our tips, and we’re also paying yet another visit to Deep Space High to find out about space weather.
Today, try:

Making a fakeaway – a fake takea…

What is coronavirus and painting rainbows

This is Stuck at Home, and just like you we’re all stuck at home too!
This is the daily podcast from the UK’s children’s radio station Fun Kids packed with things to do. As well as sharing our top tips, Dan’s chatting to Professor Lu…

Cloud watching and becoming a hero

In this episode of Stuck at Home, we’re chatting about why we need to stay home, and we’re also finding out about things in space.
We’re giving you a few things you can do to keep busy. Why not try:

Cloud watching
Grabbing a guitar and playi…

Houdini’s birthday and learning a language

Stuck at Home is the new daily podcast from the UK’s children’s radio station, Fun Kids. 
In this episode, we’re giving you a few things you can do to keep busy.
Why not try giving your hand a go at:

Grabbing and instrument and singing …