Jimmy Wales and making space for hope
The Week Junior Show
Fun Kids
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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We’ve got a very special episode this week, because we’re taking part in the Be Hope Podcast Takeover, and we’ll have Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the show later to talk about why it’s important to be hopeful and how listeners to our podcast can help to make the world a better place.
We’ll also be talking about a boost for women’s sport, a champion cyclist’s last race and whether it’s time to stop giving out party bags.
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| 0:00.0 | To read or not to read? There's no question. From the best-selling author of Who Let the Gods Out, |
| 0:07.9 | Maz Evans, comes The Last Bard, a laugh-out adventure for kids aged eight and up. When Will |
| 0:16.3 | inherits an old copy of the complete works of Shakespeare, he discovers heeds the bard's last living |
| 0:23.0 | relative and can summon Shakespeare's heroes into real life. Can they help him rewrite his own story? |
| 0:32.6 | Magic, mischief and mayhem await in The Last Bard. Out now. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello and welcome to The Week Junior show. I'm Bex and I'm joined by writers Kay and Eve from |
| 0:44.6 | the Week Junior, the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14 year olds. |
| 0:49.1 | Now we've got a very special episode this week because we're taking part in the Be Hope |
| 0:53.0 | podcast Takeover and we'll have |
| 0:55.5 | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the show later to talk about why it's important to be hopeful |
| 1:00.2 | and how listeners to our podcast can help to make the world a better place. We'll also be talking |
| 1:04.9 | about a boost for women's sport, a champion cyclist last race and whether it's time to stop |
| 1:09.9 | giving out party bags. Now make sure you're listening closely because at the end of the episode, we'll be asking 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 both about. There's a story in the magazine this week about a brand new monopoly coin that's been released by the Royal Mint. And it's a |
| 1:27.7 | pretty exciting time for coin collectors. So that got me thinking, what is something that you like |
| 1:32.2 | to collect? Eve, you can go first. So I would call this an accidental collection, but I'm a big |
| 1:38.3 | lover of all things, Snoopy. And so over the years, I've either bought myself or been given lots of Snoopy-themed presents. |
| 1:46.7 | And so now my room is just filled with sort of a bit of a Snoopy collection. |
| 1:50.9 | And I just kind of love it. |
| 1:52.2 | I've got Snoopy socks, Snoopy T-shirts, Snoopy pajamas, a framed picture of Snoopy on my wall, |
| 1:57.9 | a Snoopy cuddly toy, Snoopy badges, even a 3D printed Snoopy laying on top of |
| 2:04.8 | his dog kennel. So there's a lot of Snoopy going on. You know what's really weird is I'm just |
| 2:09.2 | looking around me now and I'm recording somewhere I don't usually record. And right in front of me is |
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