Slime balls and feeding people
The Week Junior Show
Fun Kids
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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In a week where Ethiopia launched Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned, we’re going to be discussing some of the other stories that feature in the latest issue of this week’s magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Week Junior Show. I'm Bex and I'm joined by writers Kay and Eve from the Week Junior, the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14-year-olds. |
| 0:13.2 | Now, in a week where Ethiopia launched Africa's largest hydroelectric dam and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rainer resigned. |
| 0:21.3 | We're going to be discussing some of the other stories that feature in the latest issue of this week's magazine. |
| 0:26.1 | But make sure you're listening closely because at the end of this episode, we'll be asking a |
| 0:30.1 | question about what you've heard and if you answer it correctly, you could win a prize. |
| 0:34.5 | And before we begin, that's something I want to talk to you guys about. |
| 0:37.3 | There's a story |
| 0:38.1 | this week in the magazine about a lightsaber that's used by Darth Vader in the original Star Wars |
| 0:43.2 | films. Now, it's just been sold for £2.7 million at auction. And I want to know if you could |
| 0:50.2 | own any object used in any film, what would you want to have? |
| 0:54.7 | Eve, go for it. |
| 0:56.3 | So I'm thinking, because I'm a huge Marvel fan, I would love to have Thor's Hammer, |
| 1:02.4 | also known as Mielnir, which you can only pick up if you're worthy. |
| 1:08.1 | And I just think it would be a really great sort of thing to do at a party, |
| 1:13.2 | just get out meal near and assuming I'm worthy. Otherwise, I'm not getting it out. It's just on |
| 1:18.0 | the floor. And then everyone tries to pick it up. I just think that would be a great, just very |
| 1:23.7 | entertaining. Fun party game to find out who in your party is worthy. |
| 1:28.7 | Exactly. |
| 1:29.7 | Excellent test there and game. |
| 1:32.2 | Kay, how about you? |
| 1:33.9 | I pick Mary Poppins' bag because she's a nanny and she moves to a new family. |
| 1:42.0 | And when she gets there, there's no furniture. |
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