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The Week Junior Show — 101 episodes

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1

Giant tiramisu and an amazing axolotl rescue

2

School dinners and Daddy Pig's London Marathon

3

Artemis II and wiggly bee bums

4

April Fool's and languages in schools

5

The best pranks, and should museums charge for entry?

6

How hedgehogs hear and Parliament leaving London

7

New allergy rules in schools and Basic Income

8

What's happening in the Middle East?

9

Are audiobooks as good as reading?

10

Lunar New Year and Larry the cat

11

Winter Olympics and sending humans to space

12

Greenland and no social media for under-16s

13

National Storytelling Week and return of the lynx

14

Artemis II and a model Sun

15

National Year of Reading and retro tech

16

Is it OK to sell Dinosaur Fossils at Auction?

17

NEW PODCAST: Judge Bex

18

Favourite stories of 2025

19

Percy Jackson stars and giving gifts

20

The future of zoos

21

The Largest City in the World

22

Cloud seeding and soil stories

23

The Week Junior turns 10

24

Red Kite resurgence and Americanisms

25

Tourist taxes and the Grand Egyptian Museum

26

Halloween costumes and dinosaur discoveries

27

The French Museum Robbery

28

Are AI actors a good idea?

29

The Amazing Works of Jane Goodall

30

Should teachers be able to work from home?

31

Should children help around the home?

32

Jimmy Wales and making space for hope

33

Slime balls and feeding people

34

New school term and payment for good grades

35

KPop Demon Hunters and skincare for young people

36

Snaps in galleries and oil rig art

37

Chaos Theory and a Scarecrow Festival

38

Storm Floris and AI generated music

39

Lionesses' victory and child-free holidays

40

Dragonflies and pool etiquette

41

Sandwiches made from fruit

42

500th ISSUE SPECIAL: Tips on staying cool and should summer be shorter?

43

Sheep on homes and should we stop flying?

44

Chocolate handbags and flea treatments for pets

45

A perfume garden and a police officer's lost hat

46

How To Train Your Dragon and an incredible spelling bee

47

Taylor Swift and making shops responsible for recycling

48

Wild camping and SUVs

49

Trade deals and bluebells

50

Pope, walking to school week, and a head-bopping sea lion

51

Panto GCSEs to animal impressions

52

Snail ice cream and power cut chaos

53

Superheroes and the Pope

54

Astrobot and a GIANT Easter Egg!

55

What are tariffs?

56

Myanmar quake and solar eclipses

57

Lab-grown meat and the World Athletics Indoor Championships

58

Astronauts return to Earth and the Special Olympics World Winter Games

59

Are poems better than stories?

60

International Women's Day and support for Ukraine

61

Ancient pharaoh discovered and remembering Benjamin Zephaniah

62

Super sewers and expanding Heathrow

63

India's tiger population and ditching Valentine's Day

64

Van Gogh paintings and disco scallops

65

Holocaust Memorial Day and Children's Mental Health Week

66

Kindness is the Word of the Year

67

Firefighters tackling Wildfires in the USA

68

A Perfectly Round Chicken Egg!

69

Biggest stories of 2024

70

WICKED singing and Strictly Come Dancing

71

Pre-loved Christmas presents and the International Children's Peace Prize

72

Hamster flights and saving red squirrels

73

Angry Birds and British Sign Language

74

National Tree Week and Children in Need

75

Quest for dumplings

76

World Kindness Day, the US election, and snow on Mount Fuji

77

Know your rights and are timed tests fair?

78

Halloween and robot waiters

79

Hurricane Milton and the best season

80

Earth's second moon

81

Transformers and the Week Junior Book Awards

82

2026 Commonwealth Games and skincare for kids

83

Sign language and text walking

84

AI teachers and funky pizzas

85

Ice lollies and nuclear power

86

School uniforms and Olympic torches

87

Paralympics and super blue moons

88

Astronauts stuck in space and banana peel boots

89

Unrest in the UK and Olympic achievements

90

The Spectacular Olympic Opening Ceremony

91

The Glitch that Caused Disruption around the World

92

Getting Ready for the Olympic Games in Paris!

93

The General Election and a spa for Frogs!

94

Is Monopoly the best game ever?

95

Beetles in Backpacks!

96

The Best Biscuit Crunch

97

Growing food in Space?

98

Cat doctors and a debate on National Service

99

The General Election and an Orchestra conducted by Dogs?

100

How NASA are preparing for trips to the Moon!

101

The Northern Lights in the UK