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Activity Quest: Days out and crafts for kids

Activity Quest: Days out and crafts for kids

Fun Kids 100 Episodes Sep 20, 2026

Join our presenters from across the UK as they give you interesting and fun things to keep you busy out-and-about and at home. It's the weekly kids entertainment show from the UK’s children’s radio station Fun Kids.

Episodes

The Curious Tale of the Horniman's Walrus
The Curious Tale of the Horniman's Walrus Sep 20, 2026 458 Adam is off to Forest Hill in south London for the Horniman Museum and Gardens, and the curious tale of a very overstuffed walrus...The walrus arrived in London in Victorian times, and the story goes that the taxidermist who prepared it had never seen a live one, so he filled out every last wrinkle until it ended up smooth, round and enormous. It has been a south London favourite ever since. There
Exploring the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
Exploring the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford Sep 13, 2026 865 This week Adam is wandering around the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, finding out what is on offer for visitors of every age.The Ashmolean opened its doors in 1683, which makes it the first public museum in Britain, and what is inside now covers half a million years of art and archaeology. Egyptian mummies, Greek and Roman sculpture, treasures from Asia and paintings from the last hundred years all s
Deep Beneath London at the London Mithraeum
Deep Beneath London at the London Mithraeum Sep 6, 2026 764 Adam heads into the City of London and then goes down, well below the modern pavements, to investigate the capital's Roman past at the London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE.Underneath the building is the temple of Mithras, put up by Roman Londoners around 1,800 years ago and dug up again in the 1950s. It has been rebuilt on the spot where it was found, and it is brought to life with light, haze and sou
Feeding the Giraffes at Woburn Safari Park
Feeding the Giraffes at Woburn Safari Park Aug 30, 2026 798 Adam is off to Bedfordshire for a day at Woburn Safari Park, and he has landed one of the park's very special VIP experiences. That means getting far closer to the animals than most visitors ever manage, including the moment he gets to feed the giraffes...Woburn comes in two halves. On the Road Safari you stay in the car and drive slowly through the reserves, with rhino, bears, tigers, lions, zebr
Getting Up Close to Concorde at Aerospace Bristol
Getting Up Close to Concorde at Aerospace Bristol Aug 23, 2026 1446 Adam heads to Filton on the northern edge of Bristol, where a First World War airfield has become Aerospace Bristol, a museum telling the story of more than a hundred years of flying. This is a place where aeroplanes were designed and built for a century, and the galleries take you from the flimsy wood and canvas machines of the early 1900s right through to helicopters, rockets and missiles. The s
Taking on the Targets at Topgolf
Taking on the Targets at Topgolf Aug 16, 2026 589 Adam heads to Topgolf, a driving range with a twist, where golf gets mixed up with a bit of darts and a bit of bowling. You don’t need to have played before and you don’t need your own clubs, because everyone gets a bay, a set of clubs to borrow and a screen keeping score. The clever bit is the golf balls. Every single one has a tiny microchip inside it, so when you whack it out into the outfield
Climbing the Rigging of the Cutty Sark
Climbing the Rigging of the Cutty Sark Aug 9, 2026 712 Bex sends Dan to Greenwich for a face your fears challenge, and he turns up on the riverside with no idea what is coming. Inside his envelope is the mission: climb to the top of the Cutty Sark, the famous tea clipper that once raced tea leaves from Asia to Europe and now sits in dry dock in south London. The problem is that Dan is terrified of heights, and so is producer Paul! Strapped into harnes
Back in Time at the Loxwood Joust
Back in Time at the Loxwood Joust Aug 2, 2026 724 Bex sends Adam back to the 15th century as he visits the Loxwood Joust, an entire medieval fantasy kingdom hidden away in an ancient woodland at Loxwood, right on the West Sussex and Surrey border. You park your car in the 21st century, walk through a marquee, and come out somewhere completely different! Adam meets founder Morris Bacon, who runs the event with his son Danny, to hear how a small fa
Behind the Scenes at the London Transport Museum Depot
Behind the Scenes at the London Transport Museum Depot Jul 26, 2026 1301 Bex gets a rare peek inside the London Transport Museum's depot in Acton, usually open only a few weekends a year. She rides a 1938 underground train, explores six zones of transport history from old horse drawn omnibuses to trams, and gets the full scoop from Steph on what families can expect from the depot's special open days this August.Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee o
Exploring the National Portrait Gallery
Exploring the National Portrait Gallery Jul 18, 2026 757 Adam swaps the studio for the galleries as he heads to the National Portrait Gallery, right in the heart of London — just around the corner from Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square. It's a place that tells the story of Britain through portraits, and Adam's there to find out exactly what's on offer for families. He's joined by Juno, the gallery's Families and Young People's Programme Manage
Royal Society Summer Exhibition
Royal Society Summer Exhibition Jul 5, 2026 482 ex sends Adam to the Royal Society in the heart of London for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, where the very best of British science is on show. The room is bursting with things to discover, from telescopes hunting for invisible dark matter to Oxford robots learning to stack cups and whole universes being built inside a computer. Adam meets cosmologist Sir Carlos Frenk, a scientist wh
Tennis and glow in the dark bowling
Tennis and glow in the dark bowling Jun 29, 2026 663 Dan visits the iconic Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), a Wimbledon fan’s dream, for a one-on-one coaching session with top tennis pro Sam at the National Tennis Centre. Find out what it’s like to train where the pros play, learn about the new LTA Youth programme designed to help kids fall in love with tennis, and get some simple drills to try at home, even in your living room! PLUS: It&r

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