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The Week Junior Show

Fun Kids

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 the...

Episodes

20 of 126 episodes

Brazil’s election and Junior Eurovision

Brazil has re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as its president, and Bex, Eve and Joe talk through how Lula beat Flávio Bolsonaro in the se...

24:39Oct 30, 2026

Prize-winning rug factory and a shrinking Mont Blanc

A rug factory in Rangpur, Bangladesh, has been named the world’s best new building outside the UK, and Bex, Eve and Joe talk through why the...

24:34Oct 23, 2026

Nobel Peace Prize and animals on banknotes

South African lawyer Navi Pillay has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work on human rights and international law, and Bex, Eve and...

30:12Oct 16, 2026

Hope for wildlife and world champion porridge

The WWF’s new Living Planet Report is called The Science of Hope, and Bex, Eve and Stevie talk through what it found, including wild tiger n...

30:54Oct 9, 2026

Book awards and Sycamore Gap’s new shoots

It was The Week Junior Book Awards this week, and Bex, Eve and Stevie talk through the big night, including Jack Mackay’s spooky story Gloam...

28:24Oct 2, 2026

Turning hope into action

This week, as part of the Be Hope Podcast Takeover, we talk to guerilla gardener and nature rights campaigner Kalpana Arias about her work a...

43:52Sep 25, 2026

Slowing down AI and woolly glaciers

The boss of AI company Anthropic has said that powerful artificial intelligence should be developed more slowly and checked more closely, an...

29:23Sep 18, 2026

Fast fashion fees and a fossil hunter’s blue plaque

France has brought in new rules that make ultra fast fashion companies pay a fee on every new item of clothing they sell there, from 43p for...

27:52Sep 11, 2026

Nepal flood aid and a castle on rollers

Flash floods hit communities along the border between Nepal and Tibet on 26 August after a glacier collapsed high in the mountains, and Bex,...

29:15Sep 4, 2026

Runny egg warning and Snowdon queues

The Food Standards Agency has warned young children, older people and pregnant women to avoid runny eggs in cafes and restaurants after an o...

27:44Aug 28, 2026

Total solar eclipse and hidden gold

A total solar eclipse passed over Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain, and Bex, Eve and Martha talk through what happened, including Eve’s...

27:49Aug 21, 2026

Lucky lotto ticket and giant cars

A new defence agreement has been signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and Bex, Joe and Dan talk through what it means. There’s also...

31:12Aug 14, 2026

Farming octopuses and the missing space pen

The Commonwealth Games have come to a close, and Bex, Joe and Stevie look back at what happened. There's also a hero rescue dog retiring, a...

30:55Aug 7, 2026

Number 10 North and noisy museums

The Prime Minister opens a second Number 10 in Manchester, and Bex, Joe and Stevie explain what it means for where power sits in the UK. The...

27:13Jul 31, 2026

New Prime Minister and pets in restaurants

The UK has a new Prime Minister. The team explains who Andy Burnham is and how he landed the top job so quickly. There's also the Queen's su...

27:41Jul 24, 2026

The Bayeux Tapestry and Neil the Seal

This week, the Bayeux Tapestry arrives in the UK for the first time in nearly 1,000 years, a famous elephant seal called Neil causes a stir...

35:12Jul 17, 2026

The Hope Issue: Drone rescues and robot octopuses

It's the Hope Issue! Bex is joined by Eve and Joe from The Week Junior. Joe reveals how a potato-shaped sea creature from Antarctica could o...

29:10Jul 10, 2026

Sports day and beavers in your city

The team share their favourite sports day activities as listeners answer last week's question about music that helps them relax. Plus: Young...

30:03Jul 3, 2026

Keir Starmer resigns and changes for free school meals in Wales

On Monday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced he would step down as Prime Minister and Labour Party leader. Eve, Joe and Bex digest the l...

29:30Jun 26, 2026

Social media ban and Toy Story 5

Eve explains new government plans to set a minimum age of 16 for social media platforms as Joe shares the story of Parkrun, which recently h...

28:59Jun 19, 2026