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The Week Junior Show

The Return of Dr. Who and a Crab joke competition!

The Week Junior Show

Fun Kids

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

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week we hear all about a the return of Dr. Who, some wildlife conversation success stories and debate whether you should go to school if you're sick! 

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Bex, and welcome to the Week Junior.

0:03.0

Today I'm joined by two of the team from The Week Junior, the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14 year olds.

0:08.8

We've got Writers Eve and Joe.

0:11.4

Today we're going to be talking about the upcoming return of Doctor Who, some wildlife

0:15.2

conservation success stories and an unusual joke competition in Margate. There's also going to be

0:20.5

a big debate about whether you should go to school if you're sick.

0:23.6

So on the subject of Dr. Who, last week we talked about where we would go if you could travel

0:27.9

anywhere in space.

0:28.9

And this week I want to know, where would you go if you could travel anywhere in time?? I'm going to give the answer I always say if I'm asked this question which is weirdly quite a lot

0:36.9

The Victorian era I would go back to be the Victorian times I would be maybe friends with Charles Dickens perhaps

0:44.3

perhaps friends with Victoria herself I'd be rich is what I'm saying I want to be

0:47.8

poshed in Victorian times. Maybe I could eat one of the first cabry chocolate bars I

0:51.6

don't know that's that's where I would aim for.

0:53.6

Eve, how about you? Well, keeping on the theme of famous authors like Charles Dickens. I would love to go back in time and watch a

1:01.5

Shakespeare play, but like the first the first you know like the first ever

1:04.4

Romeo and Juliet it's opening night Shakespeare's nervous on the edge of the stage and I'd

1:09.6

love to see it see what it was like see what the big deal is all about.

1:14.0

But also if I'm mentioning Shakespeare, I feel like I also need to mention Jane Austin,

1:18.0

because I love Jane Austin, author of Pride and Prejudice,

1:20.0

I'd love to just meet her as well and say to her well without kind of

1:24.0

destroying the space-time continuum I'd like to kind of let her know I love her books but

1:29.8

maybe I'd just pretend to be like a fan at the time like I'd go up to her after she's just

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