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We’ve been heading to primary schools across the UK to investigate interesting stories and the people who write them and we’ll be joined by the authors themselves to answer your questions! You can hear Story Explorers first at 18:15 every week day in The Club with Bex on Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station. Story Explorers is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids.
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We're spending time with Eoin Colfer best known for the Artemis Fowl series this week. It's the last episode of Story Explorers and Eoin's rounding us off in style. He's reading from The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkids…
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Yesterday we met our author of the week, Eoin Colfer best known for the Artemis Fowl series! Today, he's finishing your stories! This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Yesterday we met our author of the week, Eoin Colfer best known for the Artemis Fowl series! Today, he's listening to your pitches and giving some honest feedback. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privac…
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It's a brand new week which means we've got a brand new set of Story Explorers and a brand new author to chat to. This week it's the turn of Eoin Colfer best known for the Artemis Fowl series! Today, we're embarking on the first mission of the week, finding out all about him! This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for …
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It's a brand new week which means we've got a brand new set of Story Explorers and a brand new author to chat to. Today it's Eoin Colfer best known for the Artemis Fowl series! Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in an epic battle against a race of powerful underground fa…
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Greg James and Chris Smith are the joint authors of the Kid Normal series. We're with them every day this week in Story Explorers, the podcast that looks at the stories behind your favourite stories. We've put Greg and Chris through their paces this week, finding out about them, pitching them new story ideas and having them finish your stories. The…
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Greg James and Chris Smith are the joint authors of the Kid Normal series. We're with them every day this week in Story Explorers, the podcast that looks at the stories behind your favourite stories. So far this week we've found out about the authors and you've pitched your own ideas to them. Today it's the story starter challenge – they're finishi…
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Greg James and Chris Smith are the joint authors of the Kid Normal series. We're with them every day this week in Story Explorers, the podcast that looks at the stories behind your favourite stories. Yesterday we found out about the pair. Today, listeners are pitching their Kid Normal ideas to Greg and Chris. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids…
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Greg James and Chris Smith are the joint authors of the Kid Normal series. We're with them every day this week in Story Explorers, the podcast that looks at the stories behind your favourite stories. Today, we're embarking on our first mission of the week, finding out all about them! This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/liste…
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Greg James and Chris Smith are BBC Radio 1 DJs who have written their own books! They're the joint authors of the Kid Normal series. We're with them every day this week in Story Explorers, the podcast that looks at the stories behind your favourite stories. In the book series, Murph Cooper rocks up to his new school several weeks into the beginning…
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Every single day this week, we’re finding out more about Lauren Child and how she writes her stories. Lauren Child is best known for her book series, Charlie and Lola. She’s also written the Clarice Bean series and the Ruby Redfort novel series. In this episode, she's reading from her newest story, The Goody. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids…
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Every single day this week, we’re finding out more about Lauren Child and how she writes her stories. Lauren Child is best known for her book series, Charlie and Lola. She’s also written the Clarice Bean series and the Ruby Redfort novel series. In this episode, she's giving tips on how to write stories of your own. This is a Pixiu production for F…
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Every single day this week, we’re finding out more about Lauren Child and how she writes her stories. Lauren Child is best known for her book series, Charlie and Lola. She’s also written the Clarice Bean series and the Ruby Redfort novel series. In this episode though, she's finishing your stories! This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnys…
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Every single day this week, we’re finding out more about Lauren Child and how she writes her stories. Today, we're getting Lauren's fact file – which includes her full name, where she's from and what her favourite stories are. Lauren Child has an MBE – that’s an award commonly given to those who have done amazing work! She’s a children’s author and…
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Every single day this week, we’re finding out more about Lauren Child and how she writes her stories. Lauren Child has an MBE – that’s an award commonly given to those who have done amazing work! She’s a children’s author and illustrator best known for her book series, Charlie and Lola. She’s also written the Clarice Bean series and the Ruby Redfor…
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Onjali Rauf has been our Story Explorer subject this week! We've been finding out about her stories and ideas. There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. In this episode, we hear from one of her stories. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. …
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Onjali Rauf has been our Story Explorer subject this week! We've been finding out about her stories and ideas. There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. In this episode, Story Explorer listeners are pitching their ideas for a new story and Onjali reveals what she's working on right now. This is a…
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Every single day in the Story Explorers podcast, we're finding out more about Onjali Rauf and how she writes her stories. There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. Today, she's finishing your stories! This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Jo…
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Every single day in the Story Explorers podcast, we're finding out more about Onjali Rauf and how she writes her stories. There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. Today, we're finding out what she thinks of London and more issues that are close to her heart. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Ki…
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Onjali Rauf is the bestselling author of stories like The Boy at The Back of The Class and The Star Outside My Window. Every single day, we're finding out more about Onjali Rauf and how she writes her stories. There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. In this episode, we're finding out about Stor…
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The Good Thieves, Katherine Rundell's fifth novel. It's the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong. Here she is, reading from it. There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Joi…
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So far this week, we've heard all about Katherine Rundell's life. Now we're giving her our Sequel Challenge You're coming up with some characters, plot points and scenes and Katherine's going to make a sequel to her work! There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. This is a Pixiu production for Fu…
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All week we're finding out more about the author of The Explorers, The Good Thieves, The Rooftoppers, and Book of Hopes, Katherine Rundell! Today, Katherine is finishing your stories in just thirty-seconds! There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omn…
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All week we're finding out more about the author of The Explorers, The Good Thieves, The Rooftoppers, and Book of Hopes, Katherine Rundell! We're putting your questions to her and finding out the stories behind her top stories. Today, we're finding out all about who she is in her Author Factfile! There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. …
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Ben Shires talks to Katherine Rundell, author of The Explorers, The Good Thieves, The Rooftoppers, and Book of Hopes! All week we'll be finding out more about the author, putting your questions to her and finding out the stories behind her top stories. There's a new episode of Story Explorers every day. Subscribe right now so you don't miss any. Th…
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This week, we're looking at Cressida Cowell's work and her popular book series, How to Train Your Dragon. It's our final episode of the week and Cressida Cowell is giving us a reading as well as some top tips on how to become a tip top author just like her! This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information…
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This week, we're looking at Cressida Cowell's work and her popular book series, How to Train Your Dragon. Today, Cressida Cowell is answering three huge questions; ones that don't have a lot to do with writing or reading, but that you want the answer to! This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. J…
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This week, we're looking at Cressida Cowell's work and her popular book series, How to Train Your Dragon. Today, Cressida Cowell is finishing stories started by you – all under 30 seconds! This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudi…
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This week, we're looking at Cressida Cowell's work and her popular book series, How to Train Your Dragon. Today, we're finding out all about the person who wrote the series, Cressida Cowell. Your mission is to find out as many facts as you can about her! We find out about a secret island, how she began writing, and her passion for the environment. …
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You're officially a Story Explorer and it's your duty to find out as much as you can about the authors we've got in every episode. This week, we're looking at Cressida Cowell's work and her popular book series, How to Train Your Dragon. This is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Join Fun Kids Podca…
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On this episode of Answers for Eóin we look into the difference between UVA and UVB rays!More information here from the University of Iowa: https://uihc.org/health-topics/what-difference-between-uva-and-uvb-raysImage is CC-BY 2 from Boris Kasimov and can be accessed here:https://www.flickr.com/photos/kasio69/29010351357/…
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18 August: As the end of the Olympics draws close, at least we can't say it's been a dull affair. On today's show Niall joins us to describe the scenes in Rio after president of the OCI, Pat Hickey, was arrested yesterday. We also take a look at Leona Maguire and Ciara Everard's events yesterday and, of course, Thomas Barr reaching the final of the…
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16 August: On today's show we analyse Katie Taylor's shock defeat yesterday, from the loss of key figures in her corner to overly-ambitious expectations. We also look ahead to our last boxer, Michael Conlan, who will fight an old nemesis later today. Annalise Murphy's medal race yesterday was delayed , and if it is delayed again, Murphy will automa…
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15 August: On today's show, we talk to Sinead about how good prevailed over evil with Bolt claiming his third gold in the Olympic 100m. We also look back at heartbreak for Ciara Mageean in the 1500m. Lizzie Lee describes the conditions in Rio, that saw herself, Fionnuala McCormack and Breege Connolly give strong performances in the women's marathon…
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August 12th: On today's show we look back at the first round of Olympic golf in 112 years, we talk about how the country is falling in love with the O'Donovan brothers and how doping in Rio has the potential to tarnish the Olympic name. The podcast is now available on iTunes, where you can subscribe to get every podcast as soon as it's released.…
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