Alphablocks - Blue

CBeebies Radio Podcast

BBC

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

3.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

U is upside-down, next to an upside-down tree, and the whole of Alphaland is blue. How did that happen? This episode introduces the long U sounds, the digraphs '-ew-', '-ue-' and '-u-e-' and the words new, grew, blew, flew, true, blue, glue, rescue, tune, lute, flute, prune and mule.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	It was you!
0:09.0	Ah!
0:10.0	Why would I tell a lie?
0:15.0	Let me explain in song.
0:19.0	Just hear my story and you will know why I haven't done anything wrong.
0:30.6	You look unhappy you.
0:33.6	Can we help?
0:35.6	Oh, you. Oh! You!
0:38.3	Ooh!
0:39.3	You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you.
0:46.3	Why don't you, try something?
0:50.3	You, new! Oh! Now that is new
0:58.0	Ooh
0:59.0	Ooh
1:00.0	Ooh ooo ooo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o When they held hands A mighty oak tree G
1:11.6	O, grew
1:12.6	They tried again
1:16.6	But then a great wind
1:18.6	Blue
1:20.6	It got worse
1:25.6	Bush and away it F Uh-oh, flew!
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