Armchair Adventures: A Join-In Story Podcast for Kids

Armchair Adventures: A Join-In Story Podcast for Kids

A join-in adventure series filled with stories and songs for kids. Step into the world of the Armchair Adventures Imagination Travel Agency and learn new things about people, history, science, and different cultures along the way. Join Connie, her Uncle Chris and their crew of explorers on incredible journeys - where anything is possible! Like exploring a superhero lair, joining a space mission or time traveling to witness history in the making! It's not just a story; it's an adventure that you are a part of! Armchair Adventures podcast for kids aged 6-10 is perfect for screen-free story time, playtime, rainy days, bedtime, and on your travels. Best of all? It’s made with real-life grannies, grandads whose voices and funny stories feature in every episode, making it a one-of-its-kind intergenerational listening and learning experience. Follow now and let your imagination soar! ---------------------------------------------- Say hello! -- https://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAdventuresUK -- https://www.ArmchairAdventures.co.uk Produced by Made By Mortals | https://www.MadebyMortals.org | @MadebyMortals Nominated - British Podcast Awards and Independent Podcast Awards 2024 / Winners - Audio Production Awards 2023 & British Podcast Awards 2022

Episodes

June 18, 2025 24 mins

In this episode of UNPACKED, we’re getting arty and environmentally friendly in preparation to compete to win absolutely nothing when we revisit to the ‘A Magical Mural Adventure’ from Season 5. ♻️ 🏞️

It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge once again, with a brand spanking new episode of UNPACKED! The join in quiz show spin-off from Armchair Adventures!


Our host, Connie's Uncle Chris, and his cheeky soundboard...

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Welcome back to part 2 of 'A Magical Mural Adventure!'

Whilst on their journey inside the magical mural, Connie and her lovely customers have helped rescue a rocket-speed turtle called Turbo 🐢 from a plastic disaster and are now they are trying to help a mother polar bear 🐻‍❄️ reunite with her cub, who is floating away on a piece of melting sea ice! 

“I’ve got it! Let’s reuse the plastic we collected to make oars. There are so...

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May 21, 2025 19 mins

Connie’s decorating the art party at school and our lovely customer Pauline is looking for some creative inspiration! Seeing that Connie’s ordering a lot of single-use plastic for the event, Pauline takes them on an Armchair Adventure to Plastic Shed to learn more about plastic waste while they get a bit arty!  ♻️🎨

“There is this amazing arts organisation called Plastic Shed I’d like to visit. It’s run by an artist called...

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It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge once again, with a brand spanking new episode of UNPACKED, the join in quiz show spin-off from Armchair Adventures!

Our host, Connie's Uncle Chris 🧔🏻‍♂️ and his cheeky soundboard Ziggy 🔈will challenge adventurers at home and in the studio to ‘Unpack’ an Armchair Adventure through a series of silly games like ‘human sound effects’ and super tough adventure quiz questions! 🙋🏾‍♀...

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Whilst on their journey inside the human body Connie, Uncle Chris and her lovely customers have been caught by the immune system and taken to the lymph node for investigation! 🩻

‘It looks like we’ve arrived everyone…this lymph node really does look like a jail…’

Once they are scanned by some strange little t-cells, Connie gets involved in making anti bodies with the body’s defence system - the B-cells! 🪖

Running out of time to escap...

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Uncle Chris needs Connie's help to break a world record, but she needs to study for a test on vaccinations! 🌎🥇

"No, stop everyone! No record-breaking burps! I’m really sorry Uncle Chris, but I’ve just been trying to tell you I can’t break a record today!"

To try and do both, Connie and her customers go on a journey of the imagination to Dr Rachel’s super-secret lab to learn all about vaccines and how they work inside our bodies. 💉...

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It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge once again, with a brand spanking new episode of UNPACKED! The join in quiz show spin-off from Armchair Adventures!

Our host, Connie's Uncle Chris, and his cheeky soundboard Ziggy will challenge adventurers at home and in the studio to ‘Unpack’ an Armchair Adventure through a series of silly games like ‘human sound effects’ and super tough adventure quiz questions! 🧳


"Teams wi...

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Connie and Uncle Chris and his community theatre company are exploring the world of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to find out more about the themes of the mischievous play. 🎭

But they seem to have landed right in the middle of a squabble between two best friends and Puck receiving a telling off from his Master, Oberon! 🧚‍♂️

Will everybody be friends again and everything put right, so that the advent...

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Connie has to make a last minute presentation at school on the themes of Shakespeare’s magical and mischievous play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and she has no idea where to start! Luckily, her Uncle Chris and the community theatre company are experts on Shakespeare, so they decide to go on an Armchair Adventure into the world of the play to find out more. 🎭

There, they’re met by characters from the play, including Puck an...

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February 12, 2025 26 mins

Welcome to UNPACKED, Armchair Adventures’ spin-off show for your listening and ‘join in’ pleasure. 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. 🎙️🎶

In this episode, we will be unpacking The Ancient Eg...

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January 29, 2025 22 mins

Connie and the gang are back in Ancient Egypt 🌅🐫 – and this time, they have a mission 💪

Their meeting with Hatshepsut, the first woman to rule Egypt as a Pharoah – didn’t go to plan… The gang found Hatshepsut down in the dumps – convinced that one day everything she’d achieved would be forgotten. 

Can the gang prove to Hatshepsut that her legacy will live on? It will take some sneaky hieroglyphs, plenty of time travel and a h...

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January 15, 2025 21 mins

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 a...

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January 1, 2025 16 mins

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!&n...

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December 18, 2024 24 mins

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...

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December 11, 2024 23 mins

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 adven...

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December 4, 2024 22 mins

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?

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‘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 ...

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November 20, 2024 23 mins

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.

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‘We’re so excited. We’re going to ride on literally everything.’

There's ...

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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? Wi...

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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...

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October 2, 2024 16 mins

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 time

for 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, the...

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