Head to South Kensington on the 7th and 8th of June 2025 for the Great Exhibition Road Festival,

a free celebration of science and the arts.

There'll be hands-on workshops, fascinating talks, performances and installations from iconic museums,

research and culture organisations, including Imperial College London,

the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, V&A and many more.

Make sure you visit Science and Nature in the Family Fund Zone,

but there's literally hundreds of free events across the festival for the whole family.

Head to greatexhibitionroadf road festival.com.ukh to register.

Hello and welcome to The Week Junior show. I'm Bex and today 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. Now in a week where Romania chose the new president

and the new Lilo and Stitch film landed in cinemas,

we're going to be discussing some of the other stories, events and people

that inspired the Week Junior team.

And make sure you're listening closely because at the end of the episode,

we'll be asking a question about what you've heard.

If you answer it correctly, you could win a prize. But before all of that, Kay and Eve, there is something I want to talk to you about. Later on, we're going to be talking about bluebells, which got me thinking, what is your favorite type of wildflower to spot when you're out and about? Eve, go for it. I really love Forget Me Nots, just tiny little blue flowers. I just think they're really cute.

And they're actually one of my mum's favourite flowers.

So whenever I see them, I think of her.

Oh, that's a lovely answer.

And Kay, how about you?

I really like poppies.

And over the weekend, I saw some really giant ones just growing out of a random wall near the seaside and I was like, look, poppies.

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