Today with tonies is being made by award-winning podcast production and promotion company, Mags Creative, and is hosted by Sam Fletcher-Goodwin and Tim Warwood. It is aimed at children aged 4 to 7 with the hope that the informative and playful podcast will be able to keep children off their screens this summer!

Based on the award-winning daily exclusive show (only available to those with a ‘Toniebox’ – an audio player which plays songs and stories when a Tonie character is added to the top of it), Today with tonies is kicking off with 14 ten-minute long episodes packed full of fun, facts, challenges, and jokes.

The podcast covers subjects such as poetry, science, maths, and music and has been made with the support of an educational consultant, taking into account the KS1 and KS2 curriculum.

Polly Evans, Senior Audio Production Manager at tonies says, “Our ‘Today with tonies’ podcast is the ultimate choice for parents seeking enriching, screen-free fun for their kids. It’s a world of wholesome content that sparks curiosity, educates, and delivers endless giggles through engaging games and challenges.”

The podcast contains many interactive challenges such as asking children to find out how many times they can fold a piece of paper, teaching them to use a word from a different language, and playing the “wrong answers only” quiz.

Hannah Russell, Co-founder of Mags Creative, says of the podcast: “As a mother myself I’m so excited to work on a project that widens the pool of safe, secure and screen-free content for kids. And not only that – it’s entertaining too! Mags Creative is all about building communities through audio, and the phenomenal response we’ve had from parents and little listeners shows that this podcast is already doing just that, so we can’t wait to bring this podcast to even more ears.”

Listen to Today with tonies from 9th July on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps. 

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Despite having no children to listen with, I’ve recently stormed through the catalogue of creation stories pulled together on In The Beginning. The show is made with children in mind (and with children in the cast!) and children will enjoy the playful way of connecting to other cultures through the sound design, acting and storytelling. But Producers Lucia Scazzocchio and Hawa Khan have created a show that is also perfect for adults wanting a light-hearted snippet of global culture in their podcast playlists.

I sent some questions over to Lucia to find out more about how the team pulled this show together…

What were the origins of this podcast – take us back to the Beginning of the show!

In the Beginning… Hawa Khan my co-writer/producer and I created a new family audio tour for the Tower of London where historical events are experienced through the eyes of two child ghosts. We had so much fun writing and producing together that we decided we would like to something else. Hawa is a natural storyteller and we are quite passionate about traditional stories and myths. We both come from quite mixed backgrounds and realised that many of these stories aren’t that well known in the UK. We wanted to tell these stories in a way that fully represented multi-cultural Britain in voices and styles of speech familiar to young audiences.

We pitched the idea to all the children’s networks we could think of, but kept hitting a wall. We then applied for an Audio Content Fund and partnered in Fun Kids who backed the idea from the start. We applied three times before the project was finally funded.

Did you take inspiration from any podcasts in particular before you started?

Not directly, I listen to many, many different podcasts and I did immerse myself in audio drama, especially the more immersive productions from QCode or Gimlet. There are some children’s podcasts that possibly inspired on a subliminal level, like Wow in The World, Radio Lab for kids and I was an avid listener of audio books when I was child. I bought by niece a Yoto player and rediscovered many of the stories I had listened to on cassette.

Co-producer and voice actor, Hawa Khan

The show was originally a radio show and made into a podcast – can you give us a little insight to how it worked between yourself as Producers/Writers and then the actors/the Fun Kids radio station.

The radio show and the podcast are the same format. I would say the big difference when producing for a radio station is that everything has to fit exactly into the time allocated, which isn’t the case for podcasts!

The process was: Hawa and I first selected, then researched the stories, gathering as much information as we could about the people and places these stories come from.

Many of these stories are from ancient indigenous cultures and have been passed down over generations and some are still very much part of religious and cultural life. We wanted to make sure we properly acknowledged the people who these stories belong to and spent a lot of time researching the names, places and religious aspects.

Leona Fensome did a brilliant job helping us contact academics and indigenous elders to make sure we used the correct language and terms.
The next stage was writing the scripts. Hawa and I co-wrote each script by trying to embody the characters, Hawa is a brilliant voice artist so she developed the characters as we went along, deciding what accents, intonation and personality each character would have. We had decided from the outset that the voice of each character would be decided by their personality rather than from where the story is from. This means a Chinese dragon has a West Indian accent, or the Taino Sun is based on an Indian Raj. Hawa then worked with the children and adult actors to develop their characters and give them voice. The children played themselves, but the adult actors are all experienced in channelling diverse accents and characters so they really brought that into the studio when we recorded. We had already worked with some of the children and actors on the Tower of London project so this was helpful.

Once everything was recorded I worked on the pacing and sound design. Fun Kids helped us hone the original application and concept but they didn’t intervene during production. They trusted us to produce these stories in our own way. The final addition to this series becoming a podcast, was the creation of the artwork by Delphine – each episode has its own image which is gorgeous.

One of the things I really liked in the series was the children’s voices in the show. How important was it for you to have that?

Children love listening to other children and the children’s voices provide a narrative thread through the series. The children in the series are being told the stories and ask the kinds of questions that children listening might also ask. There is also a little life lesson in each episode that connects to the children’s interaction at the beginning of each episode.

As Producers, how did you find doing that aspect? (Never work with children or animals comes to mind!)

Hawa Kahn is a creative school facilitator so she is very used to working with children and firing their imaginations. The children in the series aren’t professional actors and the script was written around them – they are two sets of siblings. Time and patience is the key, with plenty of breaks. These children were superb to work with and incredibly literate. The youngest were 5 when we recorded and they were all just amazing.

Have you seen a difference in the reaction from listeners since it became a podcast?

Fun Kids has a very specific audience – children! The difference now that the series is a podcast is that it can reach audiences beyond Fun Kids and I think adults will enjoy listening just as much.

Do you have any advice for budding producers for Children’s audio?

Test your concepts and ideas with children first. They will tell you if it’s good and engaging. We got the children involved to read through the scripts, they were quite vocal if they thought something didn’t make sense or wasn’t funny.

Do you have a creation story you haven’t told yet but would love to?

There are so many! I think we will have to do another series. For example closer to home is the ancient story of Queen Albina and her sisters who was exiled from Syria to an uninhabited island which is now Britain.

Lastly, is there anything we didn’t ask that you’d like to add?

It was important for us to have a space to share more detail about the creation stories so In The Beginning.. now has a bespoke website inthebeginning.world where you can learn about the different myths, where they are from and more about the people they belong to. We have also transformed the artwork into a colouring book and postcards.

And finally I would say have a listen, you will hear stories from all over the world, told in a very unexpected and humorous way by an incredibly diverse and talented cast.

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Yoto Daily is a kids’ podcast that delivers a morsel of audio goodness every single day. It’s hosted by Jake Harris, a father and former primary school teacher whose sing-song voice reveals mind-boggling facts, cracks rib-tickling jokes and leads kids through games, drawalongs and other activities.

Now well beyond its 1,000th episode, Yoto Daily has until recently been available exclusively on Yoto – a screen-free audio platform that kids control. Yoto’s award-winning audio players, Yoto Player and Yoto Mini, let kids explore stories, music, educational activities and even meditation using physical cards. Kids around the world have enjoyed Yoto Daily by pressing a button on the audio players, which are also packed with free radio stations, audiobooks and sleep sounds like white noise. And as the podcast’s listenership has grown, Yoto has made it available more widely.

Each Yoto Daily episode is different, but they follow a familiar routine. On Mondays, they kickstart the week with Word of the Day—unpicking a little avenue of language with interactive activities. On Wednesdays, kids travel the world—exploring countries suggested by listeners through Five Fabulous Facts. At the end of the week, Jake hosts Friyay Jokes, showcasing kids around the world telling weird and wonderful jokes (try not to laugh). In-between these regular episodes, there’s a rotating roster of interactive games; Cheese or Chocolate, Alphabetter, Magic Ten, Draw-Along, and good old family quizzes. Each episode also features a handful of birthday shout-outs to kids around the world.

For the moment, Yoto Daily only publishes its Saturday and Sunday episodes to all major streaming platforms. But you can listen to the entire archive of episodes in the Yoto App, which is free to download for iOS and Android. There are other audio titles for kids aged 0-12+ in the app too, so it’s definitely worth exploring if you’re looking for ways to entertain your kids. Yoto Daily’s bite-sized episodes are perfect for families who want to kick-start their mornings with positivity and wonder, and for parents looking for a wholesome way to keep kids engaged. Discover the podcast wherever you listen – you can thank us later!

Listen to Yoto Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps. Find out more about Yoto at uk.yotoplay.com.

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Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

We are Shouting Is Funny, an independent audio production company based in London, UK. The company consists of Christian Powlesland, Harvey Badger and Angus Maxwell – three friends who joined forces when we met on the Actor-Musicianship BA course at Rose Bruford College. We make the musical fantasy adventure series The Chronicles of Wild Hollow – a mix of epic set-piece drama, oddball comedy, cinematic orchestral score, original songs… and a significant amount of talking animals.

Our show takes place in the fantasy world of Wild Hollow, and we put out our episodes in trilogy form. We have two major releases so far. Firstly, we have ’The Boursin Trilogy’, following mouse/bounty hunter Fandango Boursin on various high-octane jobs, whilst unknowingly being drawn deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that spans across all of Wild Hollow… And then there’s ’The Gray Trilogy’, where we follow fox/smuggler Artemis Gray on a piratey voyage in search of an ancient nautical treasure, in the hope of discovering her mysterious truth…

A third trilogy is currently in development, and well as a series of Wild Hollow Shorts that give more insight into the lives of our weird and wacky secondary characters!

What was the first podcast you ever listened to?

Angus’s first foray into podcasts was If I Were You, hosted by Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld. Their satirical, comedic approach to discussing anything and everything really spoke to his sense of humour.

Harvey’s first pod was Song Exploder, hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway. Harvey is a singer-songwriter in his own right, and took an immediate interest in the dissection and analysis of some of the world’s greatest songs.

And Christian began his podcasting journey with My Dad Wrote a Porno, hosted by Jamie Morton, Alice Levine and James Cooper. The closest to a ‘fiction podcast’ of the three, Christian immediately connected with the possibilities of comedic storytelling via audio.

So it’s not really surprising that now we’ve come to making our own show, it heavily leans into satire, comedy, storytelling and music. Wild Hollow takes elements of all three of these shows, for sure.

Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?

Well, back in our days of training at Bruford, we stumbled across the format of audio fiction fairly early on. Christian had a microphone and a bit of a home studio set up, and we all shared a similar sense of humour and an urge to create original content in some form or other. So we combined the two and found ourselves recording (admittedly pretty terrible) improvised tales into a mic in Christian’s dorm room and sticking them on YouTube.

During our training, we had a module focused on radio, which is where we really started to understand more about the medium and where we could take our work. The marvellous Jeremy Mortimer gave us some invaluable preliminary tools, alongside our ’throw enough stuff at a wall and see what sticks’ origins.

And then came the Rona. We were set to graduate from our course in Summer 2020, and Covid demolished any chance of a smooth transition into the creative industry. BUT, without it, we don’t think Shouting Is Funny would have materialised. Or at least, not at the rate it has done. We were all desperate for some kind of creative output during lockdowns, and so we decided to attempt a from-isolation approach to making an audio fiction show. And that show evolved into The Chronicles of Wild Hollow.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

Admittedly, we weren’t hugely clued up on the fiction podcast scene when we began. We were more inspired by audiobooks and dramas we’d grown up with. However, when we decided we wanted to make a comedy audio drama, we very quickly discovered the excellent Wooden Overcoats. When we started going down the fantasy route, Angus started to draw some parallels from Not Another D&D Podcast. And we are all musicians, and wanted to infuse music and song into our show – The Fall of the House of Sunshine presented itself in a glorious google search. We like to think of Wild Hollow as a unique entity, but there are definitely inspirations from a variety of sources.

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

So obviously being a scripted, fictional podcast, we don’t have the opportunity to invite guests onto the show in the traditional sense. But there are some voices that we would love to feature in our show. Bob Mortimer is a man who we all just crease up listening to – he’s a comedy legend and we’d write pretty much whatever character he wanted if he was to get on board. If anyone knows Bob, we’re up for a chat.

And recently we were lucky enough to attend the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2022, where we discovered the wonderful Bridget Christie. She was awarded Best Scripted Comedy (Longform) for her show Mortal, and her acceptance speech alone made us want to get her on the show.

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt so far as a podcaster?

Don’t rush. And maybe, given the fact we’ve released 7 episodes in 18 months, we could do with not taking our own advice. But realistically, we wouldn’t have been able to put out the episodes to a standard we were truly proud of unless we took the necessary time. Wild Hollow is scripted, and heavily sound-designed, featuring a full cast of wonderful actors and original songs and score left right and centre. Plus, a plethora of original artwork to accompany our characters, scene locations and episode cover arts. The amount of work that goes into this show is mammoth, and giving ourselves the time to achieve it all is necessary. We started with grand plans for new episodes every few months, but making the decision to pace ourselves (and not gauge our successes vs other shows in the community) was formative in our creative process. It’ll be ready when it’s ready!

Also, give your characters funny names. Funny names are great.

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

’The Gray Trilogy – Episode One: A Smuggler’s Honour’. That’s the first of our three new releases, it introduces brand new characters, locations and it’s a great place for new listeners to jump in and get a taste of what we do. There’s definitely links to The Boursin Trilogy that a new listener would miss, so if you’re a completionist, maybe you’d want to start with Fandango’s trilogy opener ‘Fandango Boursin and the Lilypad Lounge’. But ‘A Smuggler’s Honour’ would be our recommendation – immerse yourself in Artemis’s journey, then pop back and see what Fandango gets up to. And then, if you’re feeling festive, we have a Christmassy adventure featuring our mousey bounty hunter as well – our very first release back in 2020.

Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

Where CAN’T they. You can find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, Audible, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’re active on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @shoutingisfunny. We have a company website at www.shoutingisfunny.com, where you’ll find insights into our current and future projects. You can directly support our ongoing work via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/shoutingisfunny. And, if you’re part of the r/audiodrama or r/podcasts subreddits, you can find us squirrelling away on there as well.

Listen to Chronicles of Wild Hollow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps.

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Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

I’m Babatunde Aléshé, and I’m a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. I’m currently starring in the BAFTA nominated Celebrity Gogglebox.

This summer, I’m hosting the Mission Imagination podcast, which is the brand new series of the Puffin Podcast. I’ll be joined alongside two young Puffineers, and the idea is that there’ll be a new adventure for each week of the summer holidays.

Each episode will whoosh children away to a different magical world created by a fantastic Puffin author – think lands where sweets really do grow on trees, where puffins are rulers of the land, and where you can swim in a sea of chocolate. Every episode, there are rules for stepping foot in these dreamlands – and when rules are broken, danger follows . . . What Danger? Well, you’ll have to tune in to find out!

What’s the first podcast you ever listened to?

The first podcast I ever listened to was the Joe Rogan podcast, and it’s still one of my favourites to this day!

Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?

For me, it was the concept of the show. Puffin’s Mission Imagination podcast champions the work, and voices of incredibly talented authors, with particular focus on those from underrepresented backgrounds. This really sparked my interest.

I’m so proud to partner with the brilliant team at Puffin to help spread some much needed joy and positivity for children over the summer holidays through the Mission Imagination podcast.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

I would say I’m most inspired by the Joe Rogan Podcast, Half Calf Podcast, and Comedy Gold Minds with Kevin Hart. They are all equally great shows that produce such brilliant content.

If you could feature your dream author on the podcast, who would they be?

I would love to speak with Seth Godin, who has taught millions of people and left his mark on our creative culture. He’s the author of 19 international bestsellers that have been translated into more than 35 languages, and I really admire his work! Growing up, one of my favourite authors was Roald Dahl and I absolutely loved A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt so far as a podcaster?

The biggest lesson I’ve learnt is patience! Working with kids is a different vibe to the usual jobs I do, but I love it!

If you could be a guest on your podcast, what world would you take us to?

It would be a world made of delicious doughnuts with rivers made of strawberry jam!

Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

I’m on Instagram @BabatundeComedian, and on Twitter @BabatundeComedy. Mission Imagination can be found on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

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Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

I’m Kerry Keenan and Your Floating Bed is a collection of sleep journeys for children. During the first lockdown, my 7 year old daughter, Autumn, struggled to sleep. Like a lot of us, she found lockdown disruptive and unsettling. So I began to create ‘sleep journeys’ for her to help her unwind and calm her fizzy mind. These are simple stories using guided meditation and positive affirmations, where we imagine her bed floating away to a destination of her choice.

Then I heard how Autumn’s friends were also struggling to sleep, so I began sharing the sleep journeys, and that’s when I had the idea of creating a podcast.

Now we are having so much fun building our collection of sleep journeys using listeners’ destination requests.

What’s the first podcast you ever listened to?

Dear Joan and Jericha!! (Couldn’t be further away from what I’m currently creating!!!!)

Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?

The pandemic has had such a negative impact on people’s mental health in so many ways. A recent survey from the Education Policy Institute UK, The Prince’s Trust, and Parentkind found that it’s children’s mental health, not their education, that is really suffering during lockdown. I knew what we were creating was positively resonating with children, and podcasting felt like an effective way of sharing. Also, to my knowledge there wasn’t many similar options in podcast form. I’ve been blown away by the feedback from listeners, each individual message means so much, and it has spurred me on to make more sleep journeys. I love that we are beginning to build our community of listeners. Since starting the podcast, I’m so proud Your Floating Bed is now being used as a resource for Kidscape who support children effected by bullying. We have also been added to a couple of school mental well-being resources.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

I love podcasts. I consume so many. My favourites are ‘chatty pods’ like Adam Buxton and Louis Theroux. Or Comedy pods like Dear Joan and Jericha. I particularly enjoy anything exploring human psychology, like what Dax Shephard is doing on Armchair Expert, or Brene Brown, or Emily Morse or Fearne Cotton.

In terms of what I’m creating with Your Floating Bed, I’ve not really taken inspiration from any other podcasts, as it sort of happened organically. In terms of mindfulness, the work of Emma Lucy Knowles who I met last year, is massively inspirational because she’s a wonder woman and has such a gentle, accessible, and effective approach to guided meditation. I’ve been discovering more podcasts for kids out there and it’s so great that there is such good content for them, such as Peace Out, and Super Great Kids’ Stories.

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

That doesn’t really apply to my podcast. So why don’t I just say the Dalai Lama?!

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt so far as a podcaster?

Patience. It takes a while to gain momentum. I started this two months ago and I’m still not there. When you are not a famous face, and you are not interviewing famous faces on your pod, it takes time and a lot of hard work to spread the word and build a listenership. I believe in what I’m doing, and hearing positive feedback from listeners has given me the drive to keep creating this pod.

Making the podcast is challenging me in lots of new ways. I’ve really enjoyed doing listeners requests, and some have been a massive challenge. One little girl has asked for a sleep journey to ‘soup’. Her Mum asked if that was too bizarre, but I said nothing is too bizarre! I love the challenge! So watch this space for a ‘soup’ sleep journey!!!

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

Each episode has a similar format, but is its own journey, and its own adventure. So which destination you choose will depend on how you are feeling at the time of listening.

Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

You can listen to Your Floating Bed on Acast, Spotify and wherever you find your podcasts.You can follow the podcast on Instagram and Facebook.

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Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

Den of Enquiry kick starts conversations with kids about democracy and is aimed at 9-12year olds and their adults. We use original poetry to bring big ideas to life and start great chats about the rule of law and individual liberty. It’s a podcast by me, Miranda Duffy, my two youngest children and our studio audience, Woof. We build a den under our kitchen table, turn it into a recording studio and start tapping into our critical thinking skills. Why not build a den and join us!

Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?

The rhythms and rhymes I use in my poetry are meant to be read out loud, so it’s a great way of communicating ideas and celebrating words. When podcasts are fun and entertaining, it’s a brilliant way to share an experience and get people talking. And, of course, it’s fun and we love it!

What was the first podcast you ever listened to?

Talking Politics. It’s pretty serious stuff but filled with ideas.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

Infinite Monkey Cage and Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast are great examples of podcasts that take huge ideas and distil them into accessible entertainment. That’s exactly what we’re trying to do!

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

A broadcaster such as Emily Maitlis or Krishnan Guru-Murthy: I’d love to hear how they communicate with young people and if they have any advice for parents/guardians.

What are the biggest lessons you’ve learned so far as a podcaster?

Preparation, always. Or that less is more!

What episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

I think ‘Democracy Rocks!’ It asks: is there more to democracy than just voting?

Where can Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

You can listen to the podcast now on Spotify!

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Feeling overwhelmed? Spotify has given us this helpful roundup of the best podcasts to support home learning. There are a variety of podcasts available on the platform that are suitable for both parents and kids to listen to together – enabling families to enjoy learning from home!

Whether your child wants to grow up to be a scientist, musician or a historian – these podcasts are a fun learning tool to supplement their studies and inspire them to stay engaged with their favourite subjects. And if they simply want to entertain themselves over lunch, or first thing when they wake up, why not keep this educational too? Spotify’s children’s platform, Spotify Kids, is full of amazing and appropriate music choices, as well as audio books around their favourite stories to keep them going and learning throughout the day.

Top Podcasts include:

Primary school

• Keeping The Kids Entertained  – Are the kids bored again? With Keeping the Kids Entertained they’ll be able to discover new stories, dramas, and learn something new!
• Maddie´s Sound Explorers – Hosted by Maddie Moate, in each episode, listeners are taken on a journey of science and nature sounds, with experts leading the way. Listen to Maddie discussing the show on Episode 54 of the Pod Bible Podcast here!
• David Walliams Marvellous Musical Podcast – Join David Walliams as he goes on a marvellous musical journey of discovery and meets some of the most famous faces from the history of music.
• Fun Kids Book Worms – A fortnightly podcast hosted by Bex, where she meets your favourite authors and finds out what makes them tick.
• The Week Junior Show – The Week Junior Show takes you behind the scenes of the award-winning magazine for 8 to 14-year-olds. Hosted again each week by Bex, she is joined by members of The Week Junior team to discuss their favourite stories or debate the week’s hot topic.
• Maths Appeal – The Maths Appeal podcast features discussions about key maths topics, maths puzzles and interviews with maths champions from the worlds of tech, entertainment, comedy and education.
• Fun Kids Science Weekly – Hosted by Dan from Fun Kids, each episode looks at the week’s biggest science stories.
• Wow In The World – Hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz guide curious kids and their grown-ups on a journey into the wonders of the world around them. We’ll go inside our brains, out into space and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology.
• Tumble – Tumble is a science podcast for kids, to be enjoyed by the entire family. They tell stories about science discoveries, with the help of real scientists!
• HomeSchool History – The podcast provides fun history lessons for all the family, presented by Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner. Full of facts and jokes, the series brings to life a broad range of historical topics.

Secondary school

• A Brief History of Mathematics – Hosted by Professor of Mathematics Marcus de Sautoy, this podcast reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is driving the force behind modern science.
• Science Weekly – Science Weekly is a podcast from The Guardian, and due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Science Weekly podcast currently explores some of the crucial scientific questions about Covid-19.
• BBC Inside Science – Hosted by Dr Adam Rutherford, guests join each week to illuminate the mysteries and challenge the controversies behind the science that is changing our world.
• Tech and Science Daily – From the Evening Standard, this podcast focuses on the daily bulletins reporting the latest news from the world of science and technology.
• The British History Podcast -The BHP is a chronological retelling of the history of Britain with a particular focus upon the lives of the people. It is not dry and doesn’t recount dates and battles, but instead teaches who these people were and how their desires, fears, and flaws shaped the histories of England, Scotland, and Wales.
• Stuff You Missed in History Class – Join Holly and Tracy as they bring you the greatest and strangest Stuff You Missed in History Class in this podcast from iHeartRadio.
• The Black Curriculum – Teaching Black British history 365 days a year.
• How to Save a Planet – How to Save a Planet is a podcast that asks the big questions like, what do we need to solve the crisis climate? Join journalist Alex Blumbers and scientist Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson as they scour Earth for solutions, talking to the people who make a difference.
• BBC Earth Podcast -BBC Earth’s podcast is everything you’d expect – a blend of nature, science and human experience, with world class storytelling and immersive soundscapes. They also bring you insights and stories from the BBC’s crews as they make some of the most impactful television on the planet.
• Duolingo French Podcast – Deepen your language skills and knowledge of the French-speaking world through fascinating true stories and easy to follow French, with added English for context.

James Cator, Head of Studios, UK at Spotify says:

“We appreciate how tough the latest lockdown is on families and with schools shut there are even more pressures on parents during this difficult time. We hope this  round up the top educational podcasts provides a bit of inspiration for parents that are looking for ways to entertain and educate their children – there’s lots available on Spotify across a number of subjects and suitable for a variety of ages. Podcasts are an especially great choice for those worried about how much time their children are spending in front of screens. The beauty of audio is that it can be enjoyed while doing other activities like walking or chores – enabling both parents and kids to learn while completing other daily tasks.”

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