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April 28, 2023:
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A new kids series starts today from Fun Kids. Badger and the Blitz introduces listeners to Badger – a plucky pooch who becomes a war hero. The story is one of a boy’s life and survival in a war-torn Britain - alongside a four-legged friend who never loses hope. It's produced by Roxo.
January 19, 2023:
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Children's radio station and podcast network Fun Kids has launched a 33-title podcast subscription service. It works in both Apple Podcasts and other platforms including Spotify and Google Podcasts.
May 13, 2022:
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The children's podcast network Fun Kids has launched a 12-part true crime fiction series called Truthdiggers. It follows School friends Morgana and Alfie looking into a notorious cold case: the mysterious disappearance of local eccentric Odd Colin from their Lancashire town in 1972 and have decided to make a podcast about it.
April 9, 2020:
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We're sending rockets to Mars to search for signs of past life. Thunderbirds Are Go: Mission to Mars is a ten-part series make to teach children about the ExoMars Mission. It's produced by Fun Kids, with support from the UK Space Agency and voice talent from the ITV series Thunderbirds Are Go.
April 3, 2020:
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BBC Sounds has added UK children's radio network Fun Kids' daily podcast Stuck at Home to its platform, over here. It's believed to be the first time an active show from a commercial radio network has appeared on the BBC's service.
March 19, 2020:
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Schools will be closed in the UK from Monday: Stuck at Home is a new podcast from UK broadcaster Fun Kids, and "will be hosted by the station’s presenters Dan, Bex, Conor, Sean and George all from their own houses - as they, too, are stuck at home. The podcast will include three things that kids can do at home each day, interviews from Fun Kids Radio, features around subjects like space, health and the climate as well as news updates from The Week Junior magazine." (Omny Studio)
February 24, 2020:
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The Space Programme is a twenty-part soap opera for kids, which launched over the weekend. "When two tech entrepreneurs announce their plan to make one of the local kids the world’s first child astronaut, nothing is ever the same again." (Fun Kids)
August 12, 2019:
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Children's content producer in the UK Fun Kids has launched a podcast network, incorporating its own shows and other providers including Storynory and The Week Junior.
May 13, 2019:
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We've been trying to understand the rationale behind Google's placement of the podcast play buttons in their search, rolled out to desktop and iOS devices last week. A search for Podnews (now) correctly shows play buttons underneath our website, but that's not the case for a search for Fun Kids Book Club Podcast, which despite doing everything technically correct, doesn't show any play buttons - which are attached to its Apple Podcasts page a little further down. Here are some more examples - we'd be grateful for your comments as to why. (In our mind: if the web-page unambiguously links to the RSS feed and vice-versa, that should be the signal for Google to put them together).
December 3, 2018:
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Ho, ho, ho. The Santa Daily has been launched by UK children's radio station Fun Kids. Santa Claus has a podcast of his own, and he's letting us know what he's up to.
June 13, 2018:
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Smart speakers have been important and useful for Fun Kids Radio - Matt Deegan from Fun Kids on their multiplatform strategy
May 3, 2018:
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Children's radio station Fun Kids is a launch partner for Amazon Alexa skills for kids in the UK. Here's more about Kid Skills.
February 12, 2018:
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UK digital radio station Fun Kids launches Story Quest, story podcasts for kids aged 7+. They're starting with Bryony Brownwell's Mystery Project. On iTunes etc.
December 7, 2017:
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Matt Deegan from Fun Kids, a children's radio station and podcaster in the UK, posts YouTube's Rewind for 2017, and a stark note for people making media for under 30s.
August 1, 2017:
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Fun Kids, the UK children's radio station, announces that it's the world's biggest podcaster of kids content, with 68 different podcast channels (and over 2,000 episodes). Fun Kids host with Omny Studio.
July 25, 2017:
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How to make kids' podcasts, and why you should is the title of this week's podcast from public broadcast outfit Current. A bit disappointingly US-centric, given the success of Fun Kids in the UK and Short & Curly in Australia.