Why Are Orcas Black and White?⚫⚪

This Week’s Big Questions! You’ve been sending in your brilliantly curious questions, and this week… ✋ Why are most people right-handed? 🐋⚫⚪ Why are orcas black and white? 👂 Why do adults hear differently? 🦷 Why do wobbly teeth hurt? 🔊 Why does sound get quieter the farther away it is? 🐜😴 D…

Marina Ventura and The Micro-Gridders: The Super Squad

Marina and Map App explore the technology that will help us work together to create microgrids to share energy, and the tech super powers that will help.

The Haunted Mansion of Tagretar

When twelve-year-old Rowan ignores local warnings to explore the allegedly haunted Mansion of Tagretar, he discovers a spectacular world of enchanted art, twisting corridors, and a surprisingly polite ghost. However, his intrusion accidentally triggers a magical defense system, unleashing a terrif…

The Circular Trail: a free Time Hunters history walk around the City of London

Professor Horatio Pendulum has a confession to make. The Chronosphere — his magnificent machine, hidden beneath the Timeporium Clock Shop — was only ever meant to peer safely into history. Instead he's overloaded it, torn a rift in time and scattered fragments of the past across the City of London.…

Marina Ventura and The Micro-Gridders: The Power Stash

We know it makes sense to save money for a raining day – but how can we save energy for when it’s needed?  Marina and Map App find out about the clever technology meeting this challenge.

Marina Ventura and The Micro-Gridders: Types of Local Grids

Marina and Map App dive into the different types of Micro Grids – from your local street to whole islands!

Dragon in the Habadashery

In this week's Story Quest Classic, we meet Sarah and Sally who make a shocking discovery in their Great Grandfather's Habadashery. Nestled in the fabrics is a DRAGON!  📖On Story Quest, Dan narrates stories with titles and characters suggested by Fun Kids Radio's listeners. Perfect as bedtime sto…

Exploring the National Portrait Gallery

Adam swaps the studio for the galleries as he heads to the National Portrait Gallery, right in the heart of London — just around the corner from Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square. It's a place that tells the story of Britain through portraits, and Adam's there to find out exactly what's on offe…

Supervolcanoes or Space Rocks? The Most Dangerous Thing on Earth Revealed! ☄️💥

Welcome to Science Quest! 🚀 This week, we are heading into the deep jungle to meet a newly discovered species of monkey, counting up the millions spent on the world's most expensive dinosaur fossil, and tracking the race to launch giant rockets right from the coast of the UK! 🐒 Secret Jungle Sp…

Marina Ventura and The Micro-Gridders: Types of Local Power - Heat

Marina and Map App find out more about some of the ways we can make our own energy at home or locally – and things are hotting up!