Steve Backshall and Exploding Stars!
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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A very special guest, Steve Backshall, joins the podcast to talk about his new live show and his life on the Deadly shows over the years! We also catch up with Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanobot in their Map of Medicine, explore under the sea in Age of the Dinosaurs and answer more of your questions including exploding stars!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon and I'm just popping |
| 0:04.4 | in to tell you about my new book series Witchway to Anywhere. It's a story about four children |
| 0:10.1 | who discover that there are alternative worlds beyond our own and that they can travel to |
| 0:15.2 | them with the help of a magical map and a very special gift. Of course, this leads to epic, |
| 0:20.9 | unexpected adventures. Witchway to Anywhere and its sequel Witchway Round the Galaxy are both |
| 0:26.9 | available to buy now. Happy reading! Hello, welcome along. Lovely to have you there, it's a brand |
| 0:33.6 | new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name's Dan, this is the show where we search all around |
| 0:39.7 | the universe, finding the amazing, the awesome and the sometimes awful things that lurking nearby. |
| 0:46.8 | And it's a big week on the show this week. So happy, so excited, one of my favourite explorers, |
| 0:53.2 | adventurers and animal experts is chatting to us all about his brand new show, which looks under |
| 1:00.7 | the ocean at sharks. It's only Steve Bakshaw, he'll be with us in a bit. I've swam on the bottom |
| 1:07.6 | of the Okabango Delta, alongside four meter long Nile crocodiles without anyone ever getting |
| 1:13.8 | touched or hurt. Also, we'll catch up with Professor Halux, he is our medical genius and he |
| 1:19.4 | a nurse Nanobot. Know all about your body, and they've been looking at what makes you sick, |
| 1:24.7 | and then who makes you better. And this week, it's all about what happens when you catch a cold. |
| 1:29.9 | That's right, the butcher shop. Okay, only kidding, they're found in pharmacies. |
| 1:39.4 | And as always, I've got your questions to answer, this week we're doing digging on stars and sick. |
| 1:47.1 | It's coming up, stay there. It's a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 1:52.8 | Let's kick things off this week with your science in the news. |
| 1:57.7 | Now Britain's loudest bird, the booming bitten, has had a record-breaking year, now it almost |
| 2:03.3 | completely vanished from the UK. They had almost utterly gone. But there were 228 males counted |
| 2:10.1 | last year, which is showing the conservation efforts are working. The bitter and the booming |
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