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The Week Junior Show

April Fool's and languages in schools

The Week Junior Show

Fun Kids

Kids & Family, News Commentary, News, Education For Kids

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week the team will be talking about the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, a rare book about Vikings and a very cool pair of glasses. There will also be a big debate about whether schools should teach more languages.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to The Week Junior Show.

0:05.6

I'm Bex and I'm joined by writers Eve and Joe from The Week Junior,

0:09.7

the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14-year-olds.

0:12.9

This week, the team will be talking about the first female Archbishop of Canterbury,

0:17.6

a rare book about Vikings and a very cool pair of glasses. There'll also be a big

0:22.1

debate about whether schools should teach more languages. Make sure you're listening closely,

0:26.5

because at the end of this episode, we'll be asking you a question about what you've heard,

0:30.4

and if you answer it correctly, you could win a prize. But more on that later. In this

0:35.2

week's issue of the magazine, there's a story about a spectacular

0:37.9

new circus show on the entertainment page. And it got me thinking, what is a circus skill you'd

0:43.6

like to learn? Eve, how about you? I would really love to learn how to juggle. My dad has some

0:49.8

juggling balls randomly. I don't know why. But I've always thought it would be really cool,

0:54.3

but I just can't, I don't know, maybe my hand eye coordination isn't quite there,

0:58.3

but I just can't do it. But I would love to learn. It would be really fun. So yeah,

1:03.6

if anyone knows, please teach me. I weirdly found some juggling balls at home this week,

1:09.2

and I did try to learn it did not go well.

1:11.2

They were all over the shop, goodness. Joe, how about you?

1:14.8

It's probably quite a silly one to say is I'm not the biggest fan of heights, but if I could get over that, then the trapeze looks quite fun.

1:22.7

For listeners, the trapeze is a short horizontal bar that dangles down and acrobats use it for swinging

1:28.5

and doing tricks. And I can imagine you'd feel quite free sort of whizzing, flying through

1:33.3

the air like that. Yeah, you would literally be flying. That'd be quite cool. Yeah, I like that one.

1:38.3

I'm a similar vein. I was going to say the cannonball, but I don't know, like, just being

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