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The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids

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S2, Ep8 Christmas: a time of hope ✨🌟💫

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/12/21

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 Christmas at this time of year? Why do Jewish people, Hindus, Jains, Sihks and some Buddhists celebrate with festivals of light at this darkest time? And how does Christmas vary from country to country? No matter how hard Oliver Cromwell, the Grinch and Covid-19 try, it really is impossible to cancel Christmas. This podcast is read by Henrietta McMicking

08:24

S2, Ep7 The Vikings: did they really go berserk?

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2020/12/08

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 ransacked our monasteries and captured human slaves? Or where they simply peaceful traders with an interest in travel? The clue is in the names: the word Viking did not originally mean a single group of people. It meant a pirate or raider. And with names like Thorfinn Skullsplitter, Eric Bloody Axe and Hairy Breeches, could they really have just been

09:39

S2, Ep6 Thanksgiving: from Plymouth to Pumpkin Pie

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2020/12/01

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 some 35 million people all over the USA claim to have had an ancestor on the Mayflower. As they built their colony on the Massachusetts coast, the so-called Pilgrims encountered the Wampanoag people who were unsure about the threat the new arrivals posed. The settlement became known as Plymouth, or Patuxet to the local tribes. This podcast is

08:46

S2, Ep5 Chocolate: a truly delicious story

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/11/24

Have you ever wondered why chocolate tastes so good, why it is so completely and utterly scrumdiddlyumptious? In fact the raw cocoa bean tastes horrible, and it takes a lot to turn this tropical rainforest nut into chocolate. Humans have loved it for longer than you might think, and the Aztecs drank it before going into battle. But only about 120 years ago, after a young Swiss company called Nestlé started adding milk and sugar to chocolate, did we really fall in love with it. Besides eating it,

09:27

S2, Ep4 The Magic of Numbers

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/11/17

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 numbers explain the shape of the ancient pyramids? Why is the number 60 so interesting? Just how large is the number Googol, the number that gives a certain search engine its name? And how does maths make our world more beautiful? Listen, and discover. This podcast is read by Luke Irwin with sound editing by Max Watson. The script was written by Tomáš Klička and Nicola

08:41

S2, Ep3 Christine Granville: an extraordinary female spy

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2020/11/10

Her real name was Krystyna Skarbek. She was Polish but spied for the British during WW11. She was brilliant and daring in a male-dominated field. And a law unto her self. She took risks few others would have done. And saved lives with her rare ingenuity. Codenames and pseudonyms, she had many: Madame Marchand, Jacqueline Armande or just plain Pauline. And, of course, Christine Granville. She was a real-life female James Bond. And, it is said that she was Ian Fleming’s inspiration for Vespar

09:07

S2, Ep2 How did humans learn to fly?

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/11/03

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 flight when they developed their understanding of two crucial concepts: lift and thrust. In the early 1900s, with the invention of the petrol engine, the Wright brothers took to the sky in a biplane, albeit for only 59 seconds at first. By 1949, when the first commercial jet-engine airliner crossed the Atlantic Ocean, 44 passengers were considered a lot

08:38

S2, Ep1 Who stole the Mona Lisa? And why?

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/10/27

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 to the Louvre museum in Paris to see this portrait of a 16th-century Italian noblewoman by Leonardo da Vinci. But it was not until she was stolen on 21 August, 1911 that the Mona Lisa achieved global fame. So who took her, and why wasn't she found for over two years? Did you know that Pablo Picasso was even a suspect? This podcast is read by

08:24

S1, Ep8 How does the human body fight diseases?

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/07/07

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 might be wondering how we fight off illnesses like coronavirus. This week’s episode is about the immune system and how it works to protect humans from diseases caused by viruses and bacteria. Using the garden as an analogy, we explain the difference between red and white blood cells, and the innate and adaptive immune system. In order to make this

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S1, Ep7 The magical films of Studio Ghibli

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/06/30

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 of Studio Ghibli are full of strange creatures and extraordinary flying machines; places where sprites live and incredible transformations are possible; and lots of cats – even a cat that looks like a bus. They celebrate the beauty of nature, daring invention, and explore the idea of unlikely gods and spirits that lie just beyond our understanding. The

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S1, Ep6 The Empire Windrush: the ship that defined a...

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2020/06/23

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 journey: from their initial optimism to the difficulties they faced adapting to life in Britain. The Empire Windrush lent its name to the 'Windrush generation', the people that came from the West Indies to live in the UK over a period of 25 years. Not only did they helped rebuild Britain after the Second World War but they enriched its culture too. These

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S1, Ep3 Carnivorous plants: meet the murderers

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2020/06/17

Hello Wonder! Carnivorous plants are awfully strange, and strangely awful. They may sound like the stuff of nightmares, or science-fiction, but they are most definitely real and ready to commit murder to survive. They attract, then trap, their victims and devour the bodies. These deadly assassins grow in every remote region of the world, except Antartica. And lurk underwater too. In episode three of The Wonder Podcast we discover how these plants have evolved their murderous tendencies, and why

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S1, Ep5 Why sport is so much more than just a game

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/06/16

Hello Wonder! Have you ever wondered, what is the point of sport? Of kicking a ball? Hitting a ball? Serving a ball? Of running a race? Of cycling? Or swimming? Or which jockey, on which horse, finishes first? Why bother counting the number of runs made by a bat striking a red leather ball? Why does both playing and watching sport obsess us so? Is it just a game? Or is sport a quest of perfection from which we learn lessons that stay with us forever? This Wonder podcast is read by the ITV racing

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S1, Ep4 Malala: the girl who survived

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/06/09

Hello Wonder! The fourth episode of The Wonder Podcast tells the story of a schoolgirl from Pakistan who stood up for girls’ rights to an education. To silence her, the Taliban, a group of religious extremists, shot her. Malala Yousafzai did not just survive: she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Her journey began in the Swat Valley, a remote corner of Pakistan, and even she does not know where it will end. After Malala was airlifted to the UK for life-saving surgery,

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S1, Ep1 Buzz Aldrin: the astronaut with a cool nickname

The Wonder Podcast for Curious Kids ·

2020/06/02

Hello Wonder! Welcome to the first episode of The Wonder Podcast. It tells the story of Buzz Aldrin – fighter pilot, astronaut and member of the first manned space mission to another world – and how he lent his name to a famous Space Ranger superhero. You guessed it, Buzz Lightyear. Most of us can only dream of adventures to far-off places but 51 years ago two men stepped onto the moon. Back on earth some 600 million people watched, spellbound, as together Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong planted the

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S1, Ep2 Mary I: the first queen of England

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2020/05/19

Hello Wonder! The second episode of The Wonder Podcast tells the story of Queen Mary I who has been called a 16th-century Greta Thunberg – she was passionate, clever and very determined. She was also the first proper queen of England. Her father Henry VIII once called her ‘the greatest pearl in the kingdom’ yet today she is remembered as ‘Bloody Mary’ since she had hundreds of her Protestant enemies burned at the stake. All the Tudor kings and queens were ruthless killers. Her father executed some

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