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Wildlife Series: Part 3 - The astounding story of a tigress who was adopted by an forest officer

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Wildlife Series: Part 2 - The men who saved the wildlife and forests of India

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Wildlife series: Part 1 - History of Hunting in British India

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S2 E31: How a group of school children and teachers stuck between mountains in Pakistan were rescued

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S2 E30: The origin of the Israel Palestine conflict and the backstories to this region

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S2 E29: Science & Inventions: What connects a cow, a virus and the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2023

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S2 E28: The stories behind how South India got its beloved food 'idli'

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S2 E27: The true story of a dog that saved the lives of three children

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S2 E26: Select shorts - NASA's mission from an asteroid lands on earth: Osiris-Rex Mission brings back Bennu dust)

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S2 E25: Select shorts - Sharks swimming in a volcano near Australia

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S2 E24: Fat Bear Week - a contest in Alaska - why is everyone so fond of this?

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S2 E23: A new English accent emerges in a whole continent - why, how, where?

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S2 E22: The fascinating story of the origins and wins of a chess prodigy - Pragnananndha

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S2 E21: What we can learn from Neeraj Chopra's story and his recent win at the World Athletics Championship

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Part 8: India's Space Journey - The first interstellar rockets to the Moon and the Mars

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Part 7 - India's space journey: What happens when a rocket takes off? How do satellites reach their orbits?

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Part 6: India's space journey - Dr.Abdul Kalam and how rockets took off from Sriharikota

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Part 5: India's space journey - how India got to see PT Usha, the Ramayan and Jungle Book

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Part 4: India's space journey - a story of a satellite, a few villages and one of India's blockbuster TV shows

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Part 3: India's space journey - making our own satellite, but just a little heavier please

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Part 2: India's space journey - hiking through forests in search of a launch pad

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Part 1: India's space journey - from bicycle to rocket

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S2 E12: Quiz of quirkiness - 3 questions posed by a 12-year old, about space, eggs and more

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S2 E11: Happy KidPod - Happy news stories from around the world

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S2 E10: Project Tiger - India's success story

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S2 E9: Cyber-bullying and what can you do to protect your child (part 2)

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S2 E8: Bullying - how can children independently deal with bullies in schools (part 1)

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S2 E7: Why are killer whales biting rudders of ships

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S2 E6: Video Game review: Roblox - the nuts and bolts of the game & what parents need to look out for

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S2 E5: Space: A rocket from the asteroid Bennu carries secrets from the universe

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S2 E4: Wildlife: What is the Island Effect?

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S2 E3: Movie review: The Emoji movie - by a 10-year old

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S2 E2: Science: Why are solar panels floating on rivers?

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S2 E1: Harry Potter to feature in coins in the UK

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Epi 120: From the diary of an alien - how 3D printers print cheescakes for children

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Epi 119: ChatGPT and Google - how do they differ? Is ChatGPT going to take over the world?

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Epi 118: India won its first ever Men's Doubles Gold at Badminton Asia in 2023

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Epi 117: Why Pepsi changed its logo (part 2)

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Epi 116: Why Pepsi changed its logo (part 1)

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Epi 115: Re-shark - why baby sharks are being grown in shark schools and released into the wild

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Epi 114: Why satellites from OneWeb will help us access youtube videos from ships, planes and thick forests

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Epi 113: AI art - how do intelligent laptops draw, paint and colour on their own?

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Epi 112: How can we make passwords safer?

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Epi 111: Why children and families are moving to smaller towns in Japan, away from big cities

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Epi 110: How to write a story? Tricks and tips for kids to get started

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Epi 109: 100 years of Disney (part 3) - how does a Disney animator bring characters to life

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Epi 108: 100 years of Disney (part 2) - stories about recent Disney characters and movies

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Epi 107: Hundred years of Disney (Part 1) - stories of Walt Disney and a chat with an illustrator

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Epi 106: What's common between Lenovo's laptops, food delivery packets and pencils

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Epi 105: Young Avengers - who might be the next in Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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Epi 104: How signing a High Seas Treaty will protect octopuses, coral reefs and more

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Epi 103: NASA appoints its first ever Woman 'Head of Science'

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Epi 102: Islands without vehicles & wheels - what life would be like

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Epi 101: How bacteria can help us make new smartphones and laptops

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Epi 100: Behind the scenes - making of the 'What's new today' podcast

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Epi 99: Adventure Book series recommended for young readers by a tween

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Epi 98: How AI cameras help save elephants and lions - a World Wildlife Day Trivia special

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Epi 97: Why are the canals of Venice running dry and how boats are stuck in the mud

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Epi 96: Losar festival - Where Tibetans meet their New Year

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Epi 95: Video game review of FIFA from EA sports (part 2)

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Epi 94: Video game review of FIFA from EA sports (part 1)

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Epi 93: Remarkable stories from Radio Land on World Radio Day

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Epi 92: The inspiring story of women taking command positions in the Indian army

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Epi 91: The story of the flashing green comet that's come back to visit us after 50,000 years

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Epi 90: How to be a part of the Great Backyard Bird Count (part 2)

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Epi 89: What is the Great Backyard Bird Count (part 1)

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Epi 88: How robots are crawling through underground pipes and helping the world conserve water

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Epi 87: ChatGPT: where you combine coding and learning with a dose of fun

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Epi 86: Why the Dead Sea is really dying?

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Epi 85: 8 billion people - is Earth overflowing?

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Epi 84: Tiger sharks carrying cameras on their back - whoever heard of such a thing

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Sports wrap 2022: FIFA world cup, T20 world cup and Tennis GOATs

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Space exploration in 2022: All that's colourful from James Webb telescope, Mission DART crashing into an asteroid and why the ISS may be losing a member

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Robotics in 2022 - VR goggles, video-game characters, cyborg cockroaches and electric autos

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Movies, music, books, toys - 2022 brought new dinosaurs, BTS hiatus, Indian winning international booker and new Barbies

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Wildlife in 2022 - All about cheetahs, sharks, tasmanian tigers, gorillas, King Kong and woolly mammoths

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Climate Change in 2022 - Quick wrap of the floods, the pollution and how cities around the world are coping with it

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Geopolitics in 2022: funniest and most interesting stuff from countries around the world!

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Epi 83: How a high-schooler created a universe on the video game Minecraft

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Epi 82: How a video game Pong pits itself against an artificial brain

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Epi 81: Adventures of Elon Musk in Twitter land

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Epi 80: Climate Change - Are the rich finally going to help the rest of the world this COP27?

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Epi 79: Space: How space-tech and satellites work during the Ukraine-Russia war

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Epi 78: Environment - How beautiful underwater sculptures near Italy are protecting life under water

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Epi 77: Global perspectives - why Taiwan is at the centre of a tug of war between China and US

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Epi 76: How NASA sent a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid

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Epi 75: Robotics: Real dolphins - please return to the oceans. Animatronic dolphins will dance and swim in water parks

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Epi 74: Nobel Prize (part 2) - How Lego blocks' style clicks can be used to cure diseases and more...

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Epi 73: Robotics - A robotic fish that can eat plastics and clean our oceans

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Epi 72: Sports - Tennis stars Federer and Serena Williams take a bow

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Epi 71: Wildlife - Why lobsters, horses, pigs and octopuses feel more emotion than we think

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Epi 70: Why lights on Eiffel tower and skyscrapers in Europe will be turned off this winter

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Epi 69: Nobel prizes 2022 (Part 1): What's brewing in physics, medicine and peace?

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Epi 68: Entertainment - Why toys that look like astronauts and scientists help kids dream differently

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Epi 67 - Wildlife: How Hero Rats and Cyborg cockroaches can save human lives!

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Select short pieces from episodes where our co-hosts had us at our wits end

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Epi 66: Climate change - The Third Pole near Pakistan that flooded the country

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Curious questions about moon, Ukraine, virtual reality and books

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Epi 65: Books -The father of science fiction and how he shaped modern Marvel and Geronimo Stilton works

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Epi 64: Space - Are we really going to the moon on the 'Artemis' missions?