Armchair Adventures: A Join-In Story Podcast for Kids

Connie and the gang travel back through the sands of time, all the way to Ancient Egypt 🌅🐫Connie is feeling sad about missing out on a special trip, and so, her lovely customer Jan decides to cheer her up. A history buff and all-round adventurer, Jan recreates her own once in a lifetime trip to the land of the Pharoahs. Only this time, powered by imagination, the gang are going to get to meet the Pharoahs for real… And not just any Pharoah – Hatshepsut – the first ever woman to rule as a Pharoah – complete with fake beard. To help them on their adventure, Connie and the gang are joined by Dr Campbell Price, a real-life Egyptologist from Manchester Museum! 🏛️What will you discover as you travel back through the sands of time? 🔎⏳You can download the transcript for the episode here.----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventures#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and Hannah Donelon.Generously funded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out on 30th January! 😀Mentioned in this episode:By Kids For Kids StorytimeBy Kids For Kids Story Time is an enchanting podcast performed by young kids (aged 3 - 13) from around the world. Every week we share immersive, exhilarating adventures filled with humour, heart, and good social values, transporting listeners to magical realms with myths, fairytales, and more.

Join Uncle Chris as he hosts the very first BAF-Dings award ceremony! 🏆 🎭"When Connie asked me to host the BAF-dings she didn’t say it was going to be a workout too! All this exercise is working up my appetite!" 🙆🏻‍♂️ 😅Because we've been on so many amazing journeys of the imagination, Uncle Chris and head travel agent Connie, we thought it was about time to give out some awards for our favourite join-in-at-home moments! 🎙️So, get your glad rags at the ready because we're about to roll out the red carpet for our very own BAF-Ding awards! 🎶

Think you know your Armchair Adventures inside and out..? Well, get ready to put your knowledge to the test with UNPACKED: the brand new spin-off from Armchair Adventures.It’s hosted by Connie’s Uncle Chris, and a mischevious soundboard called Ziggy. 🔉Each Unpacked episode challenges you and teams of our customers and adventurers to ‘Unpack’ an Armchair Adventure through silly games like ‘Sing The Blanks’ and ‘ Don’t Say That Word!’ In this episode of UNPACKED, we’re getting festive with ‘A Christmas Song Adventure’ from Season 4. 🎅🏻🎄🥧But which Unpacked team knows their mince pies from their sleigh bells? 🛷🏅Who’ll be crowned the Christmas champions and win the special, extraordinary prize? 🏅Are you up for the challenge? Let's Unpack the Adventure together!Stay tuned for more bonus Unpacked Adventures, where we'll revisit your favorite Armchair Adventures and uncover even more hidden gems!  ----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCreditsArmchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. Generously funded by the Arts Council of England.Our next episode will be out on 2nd January! 😀

Welcome to UNPACKED - A brand-new spin-off show to Armchair Adventures for your listening and ‘join in’ pleasure. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ has ‘It Takes Two’💃🏿, ‘The Great British Bake Off’ has an “Extra Slice’🍰, and now...Armchair Adventures’ has UNPACKED! 🧳😀 Hosted by Connie’s Uncle Chris, drama teacher and actor extraordinaire, and a cheeky soundboard called Ziggy 🔉, each episode challenges teams of customers and adventurers to ‘Unpack’ an adventure through a series of super silly games and some proper-hard adventure questions.  “Now first up let’s have a listen to Uncle Chris’s Sound Souvenirs. Bring on my wheely wheely big suitcase, please. No, no, no Ziggy, it’s wheely wheely bigger than that!” In this first 'Unpacked' episode, we'll be unpacking 'The Musical Extravaganza Adventure' from season 4. In the adventure, we meet Mrs Maestro, and together with Connie, Connie’s customers, you adventurers, and Mrs Maestro’s grumpy bus driver called Daren, we pick up the four families of the orchestra and get them to a super-duper concert in time. 🎶🎺“It’s an orchestra! What beautiful music!” 🎻🎶 Which Unpacked team will take home the super special extraordinary prize? Will Ziggy the soundboard drive Uncle Chris ‘round the wall’ by playing all the sound effects in the wrong order? Will you be silly enough and knowledgeable enough to ‘join-in’? It’s time to start Unpacking adventures to find out!----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCreditsArmchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and Hannah Donelon.Generously funded by the Arts Council of England.Our next episode will be out on 19th December! 😀

Join Connie & her lovely customers as we continue our super fun adventure at the magical theme park! 🎡🎠 Things get a little bonkers when the gang splits up to explore, but oh no — Anne has gone walkies! 😱 Will the gang find her in time before the park closes?🎡🎠🕸️‘We might be out of the ghost train – but look! So are the skeletons!’Join us as we ride spooky ghost trains👻, bump into skeletons on the dodgems 💥, and take a crazy ride on flying helter-skelter mats! 🛞----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and Hannah Donelon.Generously funded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out on 12th December! 😀

Join Connie and her lovely customers as they adventure to THE MOST exciting, amazing, magical theme park filled with thrills, imagination, and surprises! The journey kicks off with special guest Linda, who suggests taking everyone on to a theme park to cheer everyone up, especially Connie, who's feeling a bit anxious about reconnecting with an old friend.🎡🎢🎠‘We’re so excited. We’re going to ride on literally everything.’There's fantastical rides, including spinning carousels that send them back in time and a wild lazy river that takes you around the world! But...the gang are having so much fun they lose one of the customers! Uh oh! Will they find them before the park closes? Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and Hannah Donelon.Generously funded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out on 5th December! 😀

Uncle Chris is in a right pickle…his undercover detective work hasn’t gone to plan and the King's guards are trying to take him and his community theatre company to the Tower of London!‘The guards are chasing us through the streets of London on horseback!’On the run, they still have to find the facts about bonfire night for Connie. Risking everything they sneak into the houses of parliament to find out more! Will they be caught? Will they end up in the dungeon, or worse, tortured on the rack?!Join us in 1605 once again Adventurers for the thrilling conclusion of ‘A Gunpowder, Treason and Plot Adventure!’ 🎇🎆----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and HannahDonelon.Generously funded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out Thursday 21st November! 😀

Connie needs some help explaining bonfire night to some guests she has staying and asks Uncle Chris if he can help!Not sure of the facts themselves, Uncle Chris and his trusty community theatre company decide to go back to 1605 and find out the facts as they happened! But it was a very dangerous time, full of plots to kill King James I, so they decide to go undercover as detectives… ‘There’s only one thing for it we will have to go undercover, like secret detectives from a Cop show!’ 👮🚨Join us as we travel back in time to Jacobean London, for Guard chases, undercover policing and a lot of gunpowder treason and plot! 💂👑----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and Hannah Donelon.Generously funded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out Thursday 31st October! 😀

Connie and the gang blast off into space for an adventure to the moon! Connie initially hesitates, worried about being so far from home. However, she joins the crew just in timefor the rocket launch! 🚀Along the way, the adventurers experience zero gravity, dodge space debris, and even encounter friendly aliens! After a small navigational hiccup, the crew manages to steer back on course and successfully land on the moon. There, they plant the Armchair Adventures flag, explore the lunar surface, and marvel at the beauty of outer space. 🌕Will they get home safely? You’ll have to listen to find out!----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and HannahDonelon.Generously funded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out Thursday 17th November! 😀

Season 5 isback with a bang, as Connie and the gang blast off into space!Connie and herteam of adventurers are off on an exciting journey to the moon, led by Hazel—aformer soldier and all-round adventure seeker. Along the way, Connie faces herown fears about going away on a camping trip without her mum. From sneakinginto NASA, prepping a retired rocket and training like astronauts, this episodeis filled with imaginative join-in fun! Will Connierealise she's braver than she thinks? And most importantly, has she packedenough biscuits for the flight?! 🍪 Tune in to find out adventurers!

Join Connie and the gang at the Armchair Adventures Travel Agency as they kick off Season 5 with a bang! ✨The agency is celebrating with a fireworks display, and they're inviting all adventurers to join in on the fun. This season promises to be packed with super fun join-in adventures led by Connie, Uncle Chris, and all her lovely customersFrom a thrilling theme park escapade to blasting off into the cosmos, it's going to be an unforgettable ride! 🚀Adventures to look forward to:A thrilling theme park experience.🎡An imaginative journey sparking ideas for climate action.🌍A space adventure that blasts off into the cosmos.🧑‍🚀A deep dive into the world of William Shakespeare.🎭A special Christmas episode.🎅A historical adventure about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot.🎆Make sure to follow and subscribe so you don't miss any of the action-packed episodes in Season 5! ✅

Deep underground, Connie and her customers learn the Oil monster is friendly after all, and how using fossil fuels for her new prom dress damages the environment. Connie decides that reusing her mums 1980s dress is the best way forward …the thing is, it’s still not her style…at all…👗🧵🛢‘It’s important for me to wear my mum’s prom dress…even though it really, really, really doesn’t suit me…’Amy (The fabulously sustainable fashion designer) comes to the rescue with a complete redesign using the same fabric!Join the adventure and play games at the Oil monsters birthday bash, plant some trees with our forest friends and get yourself on the fashion runway!It’s time to strut your stuff in part 2 of ‘A Super Sustainable Fashion Adventure!’----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Produced by Made By MortalsActors - Hannah Donelon and Paul HineWriter – Chris BrettMusic - AJS MusicSound Design - Blueprint StudiosSpecial guest – Amy PowneyThis episode was funded through the Energy Saving Trust Foundation’s Youth Climate Action Fund. With extra special thanks to our guest adventurer Amy PowneyOur next episode will be out Thursday 1st August 2024! 😀

Connie’s lovely customer Pat wants to go on an adventure to learn what her clothes are made of and how she can shop more sustainably…👗🧵🐑‘I’d love to know how I can help the planet whilst still looking good!’Meanwhile, Connie is worrying she will have to wear her Mum’s 1980’s prom dress if she doesn’t order one off the internet in time! The trouble is, Connie doesn’t really understand what the new one is made of…Getting the rest of the customers on the line they travel to Fashion designer Amy Powney’s Super Sustainable Fashion Studio to find out more!When her wardrobe becomes a rocket, they blast off to have a beauty treatment with some sheep and float away on giant clouds made of cotton…But when they venture deep underground to learn where manmade fabrics come from… they are attacked by an oil monster!Will they survive their encounter with this fossil fuelled terror? Join us to find out Adventurers! Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Produced by Made By MortalsActors - Hannah Donelon and Paul HineWriter – Chris BrettMusic - AJS MusicSound Design - Blueprint StudiosSpecial guest – Amy PowneyThis episode was funded through the Energy Saving Trust Foundation’s Youth Climate Action Fund. With extra special thanks to our guest adventurer Amy PowneyOur next episode will be out Thursday 18th of July! 😀

*NEWS FLASH*This just in…Connie needs some help understanding research for a school project, so she asks her trusty Uncle Chris and her lovely customers if they know anyone who could help her out!‘Wow, it’s like the Batcave…Look at all the robots and machines.’🦖🕵🏻🤖Uncle Chris gets in touch with his good friend Dr Rachel, dons his news reporter character and adventures to her super-secret research base! Once inside, they learn about ‘THE FIVE STEPS OF RESEARCH’ Finding out what makes a successful project, how important planning is and they even take a trip back in time to meet some T-REX! But watch your step adventurers…you don’t want to step in any dino dung! ----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Produced by Made By MortalsActors - Chris Brett and Hannah Donelon Writer – Chris BrettMusic - AJS MusicSound Design - Blueprint StudiosSpecial guest – Dr Rachel IsbaFunded by The ICS Research Engagement Network development programme. Produced in collaboration with Lancaster Medical School, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and the Council for Disabled Children (part of the National Children’s Bureau). With special thanks to Rachel Isba.The views expressed in this episode are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of NHS England or the Department of Health and Social Care.Our next episode will be out Thursday 4th of July! 😀

Connie’s running out of time to write a play on the roman invasion of Britain for her drama class, so she asks Uncle Chris and his community theatre company to lend her a hand!‘Silence! You’re forgetting one thing everyone…I am no longer Uncle Chris…I am the emperor of Rome, and emperors do whatever they like!’🏛️🏆🐎Styling himself as the new emperor of Rome, Uncle chris takes us to a giant amphitheatre, where he pits the Roman Empire against ancient Britain to gather up the facts for Connie.Here we see Boudicca queen of the Iceni tribe take on Emperor Claudius of Rome in a few rather silly challenges to impress Emperor Uncle Chris! But who will emerge victorious! And will everybody stay in one piece? Join us on our adventure to find out!----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for this episode here. Credits Produced by- Made By MortalsActors – Chris Brett, Hannah Donelon, Catherine Cowdry and Paul HineWriter- Chris BrettMusic- AJS MusicSound design- Blueprint StudiosFunded by- The Arts Council England.Our next episode will be out Thursday 20th of June! 😀

Connie and her customers have been asked to step in to perform for the UK in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – but they don’t have a song, costumes, a dance routine, or anything, yet!“I really don’t want nil points!!”“Nobody wants nil points!”🎤✨🌍There’s no time to waste! Connie and her customers hop back on the magical tour bus to travel across Europe, on a mission to gather everything they need to make their act special and bring the audience together. “Let’s build a chain across the world…Let’s bring together every boy and girl.”Will Connie pick up all the tips she needs from other country’s Eurovision winners? How will she get on at the Song Contest? And will she receive the top mark - douze points?! Join us on our journey of the imagination to help make Connie’s contest-winning performance! ----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Produced by Made By MortalsActors - Hannah Donelon, Chris Brett, Francesca Waite, Catherine Cowdrey and Paul HineWriter – Francesca WaiteMusic - AJS MusicSound Design - Blueprint StudiosFunded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out Thursday 30th of May! 😀

Connie wants to help bring her squabbling school year group back together by preparing the most fantastic performance that will make the School’s Spring Song Contest an enormous success! “Good Evening Everybody! Let the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 commence!”🎤✨🌍Luckily, her Uncle Chris and troupe of trusty customers are super fans of The Eurovision Song Contest, the world’s biggest music competition, so know exactly how to help. Together, they set off to European countries in a magical tour bus to pick up hot hints of how to help make their performance a hit with her school friends and bring everybody back together again.Come and help Connie and her customers get this show on the road and score top marks at the contest!----------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for the episode here.#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Produced by Made ByMortalsActors - Hannah Donelon, Chris Brett, Francesca Waite, Catherine Cowdrey and Paul HineWriter – Francesca WaiteMusic - AJS MusicSound Design - Blueprint StudiosFunded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out Thursday 16th of May! 😀

Uncle Chris and his community theatre company are on the run from some vicious guards in Elizabethan England!‘What on earth do you think you’re doing here? How dare you interrupt my play…’👑⚔🪶In their quest to find out the facts about Shakespeare for Connie, and the queens guards hot on their heels, the gang crash head first into a performance of one of his plays…and come face to face with Queen Elizabeth the 1st!Will she cut off their heads? Or will they get a chance to change her mind? 😱Come back to ye old England with us adventurers and find out! Just make sure you hold on to your heads!----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresYou can download the transcript for this episode here. #armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Produced by Made By MortalsActors - Chris Brett, Hannah Donelon, Catherine Cowdrey, Paul Hine, Francesca Waite, Andy Smith and Tess Keeble.Writer – Chris BrettMusic - AJS MusicSound Design - Blueprint StudiosFunded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out Thursday 2nd of May! 😀

Connie needs help with her Shakespeare essay, so she asks Uncle Chris and his community theatre company to lend her a hand!‘It feels quite royal in here, almost like we are at the Tudor court…’🫅📜✨A bit rusty on their Shakespearean knowledge, Uncle Chris takes his theatre company back in time to Tudor, England, to gather the facts as they happen. But when he accidentally offends Queen Elizabeth the 1st, the gang must run from her guards - who are trying to cut off their heads!Come with us and visit the sights, sounds and people of ye ole England- but don’t forget your nose pegs adventurers. It’s a bit whiffy…Download the transcript for this episode here.----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventuresCredits Produced by Made By MortalsActors - Chris Brett, Hannah Donelon Catherine Cowdrey, Paul Hine, Francesca Waite, Andy Smith and Tess Keeble.Writer – Chris Music - AJS MusicSound Design - Blueprint StudiosFunded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out Thursday 18th of April! 😀

Welcome to the prestigious Armchair Adventures Grammy Awards, or AAGA's for short, where Uncle Chris picks out his favourite musical moments from the episodes so far! 🎶🏆👩‍🎤"First up is the AAGA for 'Best Use Of A Musical Instrument To Represent An Animal!"🐦🎵While Connie makes her way back from Mrs Maestro's 'Musical Extravaganza Adventure', she's asked her Uncle Chris to pick out his favourite musical moments from previous Armchair Adventures Episodes.Listen now to find out who will come out on top in categories like 'Best Lyrics', 'Best Ivory Tinkling' and not forgetting our 'Extra Super Special Lifetime Achievement Armchair Adventure Grammy Award!' Don't forget to tell us what your favourite Armchair Adventure musical moments are adventurer. Ask a grown up to let us now by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and we'll give you a shout out next time!Download the transcript for this episode here.----------------------------------------------Say hello adventurer!Website: armchair-adventures.co.ukFacebook: @armchairadventuresukInstagram: @armchairadventuresukTikTok: @armchairadventuresPatreon: @armchairadventures#armchairadventures #podcast #childrensstories #podcastforkids #bedtimestory #bedtimestories #podcastformomsCredits Produced by Made By MortalsActors - Chris BrettMusic - AJS MusicSound Design - AJS MusicFunded by the Arts Council of England. Our next episode will be out Thursday 4th April! 😀