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The Week Junior Show

The best pranks, and should museums charge for entry?

The Week Junior Show

Fun Kids

Kids & Family, News Commentary, News, Education For Kids

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week the team discuss your favourite pranks, share your movie recommendations, and reveal some exciting BTS news. This week's big debate is whether museums should charge for entry plus you share your creative projects and activities.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to The Week Junior Show. I'm Bex and I'm joined by writer Eve and editorial assistant K

0:10.1

from the Week Junior, the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14 year olds. This week, the team

0:15.7

will be talking about an epic comeback concert of BTS, some incredible athletes and an ancient coin. There'll also be a big

0:22.9

debate about whether museums should charge visitors money for entry, and we'll be hearing

0:27.4

from Bunny versus Monkey author Jamie Smart about his new book. Make sure you're listening closely,

0:33.0

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

0:36.5

and if you answer it correctly, you could win a prize. But more on that later. Now next week, it is April Fools Day, and I'm sure a lot of people will be preparing some very fun pranks for friends and family members, and I wanted to know what's your favourite prank, Eve, go for it. Well, this is a classic, but when I was a kid, I used to have a little plastic fake dog poo

0:55.7

that I just think it was really fun to leave around the house and just sort of make people

0:59.9

think, oh my God, there's a dog poo on the floor. It looked really realistic as well. It was

1:04.5

kind of like at first glance, you'd always think, oh my God. Okay, well, I mean, that is a classic,

1:10.8

but it's a good one, isn't it? Similar effect, I think, as having a fake spider that always works on people as well. Yes, I have been victim to that at uni. I was victim to that once, and it really scared me because I'm scared of spiders. And one of my friends, like, put one on my bed, And I went into my room and was like, oh, my God.

1:29.9

Very mean.

1:31.2

You're a big fan of, well, not a big fan.

1:33.8

If you're the opposite, if you're an unfan of spiders.

1:36.7

Yeah, that's not cool.

1:39.3

Next up, we've got Kay.

1:40.8

Tell me, Kay.

1:41.5

What would you think is a good prank?

1:43.6

I love a whoopie cushion.

1:46.5

I kind of love them just because sometimes they don't really work that well, so you have to

1:51.4

really get the person to sit down a few times to get the faulty sound. How do you get somebody to

1:58.6

stand up and down constantly, Kay? You're just like, oh, are you okay there?

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