Fun Kids Science Weekly

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Snakes, spiders and a laughing sickness
March 31, 2018

Ross Hickles is a Herpetologist and Aquarist at SEA LIFE London, plus he owns over 200 pet animals including spiders, snakes and slugs. This week, he's chatting to Dan about snakes, difficult creatures to keep and how he got into herpetology! Plus Dange

The plastic tide and spewing in space!
March 24, 2018

Peter Kohler is the founder and director of The Plastic Tide, a charity made up of ocean, science and tech enthusiasts obsessed with working out ways to keep our beaches and seas clear of marine litter and plastics. This week, he's chatting to Dan about h

Stephen Hawking
March 17, 2018

Stephen Hawking, one of the most influential scientists of our time, sadly died this week at the age of 76. He was famous for his work on black holes and relativity and so this week Dan chats to Josh Barker, from the National Space Centre all about how hi

An illness that turns humans into trees and donating our organs
March 10, 2018

2018 is the year of engineering! So Dan has sent our resident inventor Sir Sidney McSprocket all over the country to chat with real life engineers to find out which famous inventors inspired them!  Plus Dangerous Dan is looking at an illness tha

Kids invent stuff and the coldest city in the world
March 03, 2018

Ruth Amos is from the YouTube channel Kids Invent Stuff, and is chatting to Dan all about the cool things they've been inventing, and bringing the inventions to life!  Plus if you think you're cold in the snow this week, Dangerous Dan is looking at Y

Working at mission control, a scary cloud and how to make a hadron collider
February 24, 2018

Libby Jackson is the Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Programme Manager for the UK Space Agency, and she chats to Dan all about what she does, how she got into her job and all about what scientists want to achieve in space in the future.  Plus Dang

The loudest animal in the world and the darkest building on earth!
February 17, 2018

George chats to Will.I.Am and Brian Johnson all about the science of the future and their new book Wizards and Robots on this week's Science Weekly.  Plus, Sir Sidney McSprocket is discovering what nanotechnology is and how it came about, Dangerous D

BONUS: Episode 1 of Story Quest
February 12, 2018

Story Quest is the new story podcast from Fun Kids. With a new episode each week, it’s perfect for listening on long car journeys or just before bed. As a fan of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we thought you might like to hear the first Story Quest ep

Butterflies, moths and the deadly boomslang snake
February 10, 2018

Dr Hayley Jones, entomologist at the RHS Garden Wisley joins Dan in the studio to chat all about butterflies and moths and why they're so important, and all about Wisley's Butterflies in the Glasshouse event.  Plus, Kareena and her superhero alter-eg

Bees and whales that can talk!
February 03, 2018

Josie Dale-Jones, the producer and performer of Me & My Bee - a new comedy show inviting you to save the world, one bee at a time - joins Dan this week to chat all about our fuzzy little friends and why they need our help./ Plus, Sean and Robot f