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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In a week where protests against tourism took place in Europe, and a collection of gold coins in France sold for a fortune, find out the other stories, events and people that inspired The Week Junior team.
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0:00.0 | Never find yourself wondering who invented that or who discovered this again. |
0:05.9 | Discover the hidden heroes that contributed to our world's most important science. |
0:11.2 | From Imatep's pyramids to Hedy Lamar and Bluetooth technology, written in partnership with the Royal Institution, |
0:18.7 | The Hidden Heroes of Science is out on the 5th of June and available for pre-order now everywhere books are sold. |
0:27.9 | Hello and welcome to The Week Junior show. I'm Bex and I'm joined by writers Eve and Joe from the Week Junior, the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14-year-olds. |
0:37.6 | Now, in a week where protest against tourism took place in Spain, Italy and Portugal, |
0:42.0 | and a collection of gold coins in France sold for a fortune, |
0:45.6 | we're going to be discussing some of the other stories, events and people that inspired the |
0:49.5 | Week Junior team. Make sure you're listening closely because at the end of this episode, |
0:53.4 | we'll be asking a question about what you've heard. And if you answer it closely because at the end of this episode, we'll be asking a |
0:54.2 | question about what you've heard. And if you answer it correctly, you could win a prize. But first, |
0:59.0 | before all of that, Joe and Eve, there's something I want to talk to you about. There's a story in |
1:02.5 | this week's magazine about some Year 5 pupils who won the Bino's Britain's funniest class |
1:07.6 | competition with a very funny joke about punctuation. So of course, it means I want to |
1:12.3 | hear your favourite joke, please. Joe, go for it. Get yourself up ready and tell us your favourite joke. |
1:18.4 | So what's the fastest item of clothing on the washing line? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. |
1:26.4 | Honda pants. That silence't know. Honda pants. |
1:29.3 | That silence is slightly worrying. |
1:31.7 | Oh, sorry, it took me a second. |
1:33.6 | Is it because Honda's a type of car? |
1:35.1 | Is that why? |
1:35.9 | It is, yeah. |
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