Hello and welcome to The Week Junior Show. I'm Bex and I'm joined by writers Joe and Eve from the Week Junior, the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14 year olds.

So there's lots going on in this week's episode. We'll be talking about the first step towards peace in the Middle East, a comeback for green turtles and whether AI actors are a good idea. Make sure you're listening

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

And if you answer it correctly, you could win a prize. But before we begin, there's something

I want to talk to you guys about. There's a double page spread in the magazine this week,

all about Narnia, because the 16th of October marked 75 years

since the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis was published. So it got me thinking,

what is a fantasy world you'd love to visit? Eve, do you have an immediate answer? Yes. Straight

away, I'm thinking Middle Earth from the Lord of the Rings books because I love Hobbiton, where all the

hobbits live, because I just think, you know, I like a cozy life. I would love to just, and that's

the kind of life they lead. So if I could just live with Bilbo and Frodo and, you know, do some crocheting,

have a nice cup of tea, a warm, tasty meal, and then maybe go on an adventure

every now and then. Sounds like the perfect life, Eve. Yeah, I've got to say, I respect it.

Joe, how about you? I'd quite like to visit the mythical city of Atlantis and specifically

how it's portrayed in the Disney movie from about 25 years ago. A legend says that the island was swallowed up

by the Atlantic Ocean and in the film this group of explorers search for it and I don't know

if you've ever seen it but it's called Atlantis the Lost Empire and it has this certain feel to it

that's quite hard to describe but the animation is beautiful and it may be really want to go there as a kid. That's a great one. I didn't even think of that. I've gone for Oz from the Wizard of Oz because I just want to see Emerald City. I want to see how tall and shiny all of the buildings are. And if I'm honest with you, I also would like to go on a yellow brick road. And I feel like that would be quite fun. That's pretty much all I want for my fantasy worlds, to be honest, is a yellow brick road. So if listeners at home want to tell us what fantasy land they would love to go and visit, you absolutely can. Just send us an email to hello at theweekjunior.com or leave a voice note at funkidslive.com slash the week junior. Grab a growing up, look for that big red button and record your voice. And if your voice note is played out next week, you could win a Week Junior roving reporter badge. So last week, we asked everyone what wild animal they'd like to see in real life. We've got lots of messages. So first up, here's a message from Lyra. Hi, Aleut Jr. My name is Lyra and the animal that I'd

like to meet is a pine martin because of the person I'm named after from the Historic Materials books by

Philip Pullman has a spirit animal who is a pie martin called Pan. Thank you. Bye.

Wow. That's amazing. What a good answer.

What a great answer. A pine mart. Okay. Lyra. And also I love that that was where your name came from. What a cool kind of reason for a great name.

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