Snail ice cream and power cut chaos
The Week Junior Show
Fun Kids
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Join Bex, Joe, and Eve for a brand new The Week Junior Show
In this episode:
- Massive power cuts in Spain and Portugal – what caused them, and how did people cope?
- Valerie the dachshund is found after 529 days in the wild
- Snail and garlic ice cream – real or rubbish?
- Should schools remove mirrors from bathrooms?
- Plus celebrate TWJ's 10th birthday with editor Vanessa and we hear your opinions on last week's superhero debate.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready to be wowed by experiments, objects from space and amazing creatures? |
| 0:07.4 | Hey, it's Dan from the Fun Kids Science Weekly, and I'm coming to towns and cities all over the UK as part of the Fun Kids Science Weekly live tour. |
| 0:16.9 | I'll be bringing the weirdest and coolest stuff in science to the stage, |
| 0:21.8 | making it more fun than it's ever been in a classroom, |
| 0:25.4 | with hilarious experiments, exciting guests, and a real life meteorite. |
| 0:31.6 | I'll take you on a one-hour journey into how the world works and beyond. |
| 0:36.9 | Want to be part of the fun? |
| 0:38.4 | Get your ticket to Fun Kids Science Weekly live right now |
| 0:42.1 | at FunKidsLive.com slash tour. |
| 0:45.6 | Get ready for the podcast to come to life in front of your eyes. |
| 0:49.3 | Grab a grown-up and tell them that they'll probably learn something too. |
| 0:53.0 | Get to FunKidslive.com slash tour. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome to The Week Junior show. I'm Bex and I'm joined by writers Joe and Eve from |
| 1:03.5 | the Week Junior, the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14 year olds. Now, in a week where |
| 1:08.8 | Canada held an election and hundreds of thousands of people |
| 1:11.7 | attended the funeral of Pope Francis, we're going to be discussing some of the other stories and |
| 1:16.3 | the events and people that amazed, inspired and entertained the editorial team. And make sure you're |
| 1:21.6 | listening closely, because at the end of the episode, we'll be asking a question about what you've |
| 1:25.6 | heard. And if you answer correctly, you could win a prize. But before all of that, I'm going to say hello to Joe and Eve. There's |
| 1:31.1 | something I want to talk to you about. There is a story in this week's magazine, which we'll |
| 1:34.7 | be talking about later, about a young boy's brilliant Siegel impression. So of course, |
| 1:39.5 | I want to hear your best animal impressions, please. Eve, you go first. I don't know if anyone has seen the film, |
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