• In-car toilets and banning sun loungers
    May 22 2026

    Join Bex, Eve, and Joe as they discuss some of the most curious, creative, and controversial news stories for 8–14-year-olds.

    Hear them talk about the Chelsea Flower Show, a brand new road called "Pork Pie Way", an inventive but unusual in-car toilet and debate whether beaches should ban sun loungers, and how the rules might affect people, businesses, and the environment

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    30 mins
  • Heatwave and Ronaldo's football boots
    May 29 2026

    This week the team will be talking about a spring heat wave, a rubbish collecting scheme in Germany and whether university education should be free.

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    30 mins
  • Campfires in the Cairngorms and top secret UFO files
    May 15 2026

    Bex, Eve, Joe and Kaye are uncovering newly released top secret UFO (or UAP) files from the US government, meeting an unexpected stadium mascot (is a real goose cheering on a baseball team?), and debating whether campfires should be banned after record wildfires.

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    26 mins
  • David Attenborough's 100th birthday
    May 8 2026

    Amsterdam bans outdoor advertising for meat and fossil fuel products; meet the UK’s first 'gull ranger'; and the team discusses David Attenborough – the legendary broadcaster’s incredible century and the parties readers held to mark it.

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    27 mins
  • Giant tiramisu and an amazing axolotl rescue
    May 1 2026

    This week the team will be talking about the government’s new rules around smoking and vaping, a GIANT tiramisu and an amazing axolotl rescue. We’ll also be having a big debate about whether helium balloons should be banned.

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    33 mins
  • Mayo music and Local and Community History Month
    Apr 24 2026

    Bex is joined by Eve and Joe from The Week Junior, the magazine making sense of the world for 8–14-year-olds.

    Discover a massive German landscape being turned into sparkling lakes from abandoned coal mines. Plus, Joe tries to stump Bex with the weirdest Real or Rubbish story yet: can mayonnaise really be used to make music?

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    31 mins
  • Artemis II and wiggly bee bums
    Apr 10 2026

    This week the team will be talking about an incredible mission around the Moon, a stolen sports trophy and a wiggly bum dance performed by bees!

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    34 mins
  • School dinners and Daddy Pig's London Marathon
    Apr 17 2026

    The team talk Artemis II's safe splashdown, Daddy Pig's big London Marathon plans, and debate whether all woods should be open to the public. Plus: fairy tale adventures, self-care, and England's plan to change school dinners.

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    32 mins