The Week Junior Show
The Week Junior Show takes you behind the scenes of the award-winning magazine for 8 to 14-year-olds. Each week, Bex from Fun Kids is joined by members of The Week Junior team to discuss their favourite stories, debate the week’s hot topic and discover whether the ‘Real or Rubbish?’ report is fake news or the real deal.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
More PE Sports and a National Lying Down Contest!
This week we're finding out about how people in Libya have been pulling together to help others, a clever new paint that scientists have discovered that helps people keep their houses cool and wheth…
Tennis ball homes for harvest mice!
This week we're finding out about why scientists want to make tennis better for the environment, how schools in Sweden are going back to basics and whether plants should have legal rights.
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Why are schools across the UK closing their buildings?
This week we learn all about machines that can think for themselves and find out why schools across the UK have been closing their buildings. Also we settle a big score in the big debate. What's bett…
India's mission to the moon!
This week we are finding out about India's recent mission to land on the moon, find out a creative way firefighters are putting out fires and debating whether people should be washing their clothes l…
The Legacy of the Lionesses and Tree of the Year!
This week on The Week Junior show, we're talking about the legacy of the lionesses, the nominees for Tree of the Year and debating whether the rich should be paying more tax!
Quest to find the Loch Ness Monster!
This week we're finding out about how an inspiring young conservationist is making a difference, learning about an upcoming quest to find the Loch Ness Monster and have a big debate about whether new…
A New Language and a Voyage Around the World!
This week we're going to be finding out about an exciting voyage around the world and hearing about South Africa's new language and having a big debate about... Going to the toilet?!
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BONUS: The Space Programme
Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station, has a brand new series called The Space Programme?
Life on the Isle of Lune is about to get out-of-this-world! It's a radio drama all about a brand new U…
Hungry Horses reducing Wildfires!
This week we hear about why hungry horses could reduce wildfires, the prime minister is allowing energy companies to drill for oil and gas plus we have a debate on what's better, the swimming pool or…
Should you get paid for chores?
It's a boredom busting episode of the Week Junior Show, we hear why Scientists think Roman buildings have survived for so long and we also ask the big question: Should you get paid for chores?
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