The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids
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The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids
Extraordinary true stories for children and their parents. Listen whenever, and wherever, you are
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36 EpisodenWomen's Football: history makers, record breakers
Have you ever wondered why football is called the beautiful game, why male footballers are paid so much, and female footballers much less so?
As...
S5, Ep7 Childhood reading: a conversation with Sam Leith
Why are naughty children so appealing as characters?
Do you have to be a nice person to write children's books?
Was Walt Disney a villain?...
S5, Ep6 The Secrets of Stonehenge
It is one of the most famous, and mysterious, stone circles in the world but who built it, and why?
Was it an ancient calendar? A place of worsh...
S5, Ep5 Ada Lovelace: the Countess of Coding
Have you ever heard of Ada Lovelace? Or Augusta Ada Byron? Or the Countess of Lovelace, as she became?
One hundred years be...
S5, Ep4 Taking the piss: pee, wee and piddle
Have you ever thought about the importance of wee? Urine, to give it its proper name, has flowed through human history.
The Romans used it to w...
S5, Ep3 Play to win: board games, card games, and other games
Have you ever wondered why we love playing games – board games, card games, computer games, even playground games like It and Kick the Can?
Game...
S5, Ep2 The Lost City of Machu Picchu
What would it be like to discover a whole city hiding in the cloud forest?
This podcast – for parents and their children – tells the thrilling...
S5, Ep1 Pirates: not so jolly rogers
Are pirates daring adventurers of the high seas or simply ruthless thieves who plunder ships, attack innocent passengers and send shivers down the spi...
S4, Ep8 Thinking Differently about dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD and autism
Did you know that people with dyslexia can make very good spies? And people with autism are likely to have been the driving force of human creativity...
S4, Ep7 Horsepower: how horses changed the world
Have you ever wondered why humans chose to ride horses? It was a moment in history which changed the future of both species forever.
This relat...
S4, Ep6 Thomas Edison: seeing the light
Have you ever wondered who had the bright idea of inventing the light bulb?
Well, it’s credited to a rather unusual man, Thomas Edison. An man...
S4, Ep5 The White Helmets: into the danger zone ⚠️
There’s a group of almost 4,000 volunteers known as the White Helmets. They have become famous for their bravery in the Syrian civil war. They are fam...
S4, Ep4 Plastic: a complicated genius
Have you ever considered what an extraordinary invention plastic is? The word plastic means mouldable and therein lies its ingenuity, it can be moulde...
S4, Ep3 The power of the moon: myths, legends, and the final frontier
Have you ever wondered about the power of the moon? Craned your neck and stared, deep, into her mysteries? Like a wolf howling through the night, what...
S4, Ep2 Potato crisps: the curious history of a salty snack
Have you ever wondered what is actually inside a packet of crisps? Potatoes, obviously, you would think. Air, perhaps just as obviously – but it’s not...
S4, Ep1 The Crown Jewels
Have you ever wondered what exactly are the Crown Jewels, or why kings and queens wear crowns?
We tell the extraordinary history of the British...
S3, Ep4 How we see colour
How do we see? And how do we see colour? Does the world look the same through another person's eyes? In this podcast discover how the human eye works...
S3, Ep3 Wise words about why we worry
Why do we worry? And what can we do about it? This episode explains to children that day-to-day worries are a normal part of life. In fact, sometimes...
S3, Ep2 Poo: the inside story
Have you ever wondered why poo is funny? It’s stinky. It’s perfectly revolting, but if you say the word poo a few times, children – and some adults –...
S3, Ep1 Secret messages and cracking codes
Have you ever sent a secret message to a friend? Or tried to use a clever code to protect a secret? Have you ever tried to crack a code? There are man...
S2, Ep8 Christmas: a time of hope ✨🌟💫
All around the world during the darkest months of winter people light candles and look forward to a time of new hope. Why do Christians celebrate Chri...
S2, Ep7 The Vikings: did they really go berserk?
Wherever they sailed, they plundered, pillaged and stole, so the story goes. But were the Vikings really the fierce invaders of the history books who...
S2, Ep6 Thanksgiving: from Plymouth to Pumpkin Pie
It is exactly 400 years since a ship called the Mayflower arrived on the east coast of America, bringing 102 English settlers to the New World. Today...
S2, Ep5 Chocolate: a truly delicious story
Have you ever wondered why chocolate tastes so good, why it is so completely and utterly scrumdiddlyumptious?
In fact the raw cocoa bean tastes...
S2, Ep4 The Magic of Numbers
Have you wondered if zero is actually a number?
Or if infinity is a number or a concept?
What is an imaginary number?
And how do...
S2, Ep3 Christine Granville: an extraordinary female spy
Her real name was Krystyna Skarbek.
She was Polish but spied for the British during WW11.
She was brilliant and daring in a male-dominate...
S2, Ep2 How did humans learn to fly?
Once the heavens were the domain of just gods and angels – which is one of the reasons why Icarcus fell back to earth. Humans only really mastered fli...
S2, Ep1 Who stole the Mona Lisa? And why?
Welcome to Season 2 of The Wonder Podcast. This episode tells the true story of a thief who stole the Mona Lisa. Every year 10 million visitors come t...
S1, Ep8 How does the human body fight diseases?
The new coronavirus has had a huge impact on our daily lives, and has made some people very sick but others who caught it haven’t been ill at all. You...
S1, Ep7 The magical films of Studio Ghibli
What do we love about a good film? Is it that they transport us to a different world? To places where our imagination can take flight?
The films...
S1, Ep6 The Empire Windrush: the ship that defined a generation
Seventy two years ago over 800 passengers arrived in the UK from the Caribbean aboard the Empire Windrush. This episode tells the story of their journ...
S1, Ep3 Carnivorous plants: meet the murderers
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Carnivorous plants are awfully strange, and strangely awful. They may sound like the stuff of nightmares, or science-fiction, but...
S1, Ep5 Why sport is so much more than just a game
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Have you ever wondered, what is the point of sport?
Of kicking a ball? Hitting a ball? Serving a ball?
Of runn...
S1, Ep4 Malala: the girl who survived
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The fourth episode of The Wonder Podcast tells the story of a schoolgirl from Pakistan who stood up for girls’ rights to an educat...
S1, Ep1 Buzz Aldrin: the astronaut with a cool nickname
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Welcome to the first episode of The Wonder Podcast. It tells the story of Buzz Aldrin – fighter pilot, astronaut and member of th...
S1, Ep2 Mary I: the first queen of England
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The second episode of The Wonder Podcast tells the story of Queen Mary I who has been called a 16th-century Greta Thunberg – she w...