Armchair Adventures: A Join-In Story Podcast for Kids

• A Midsummer Night's Dream Adventure - Part 1

  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 and their fairy friends🧚 🧚including King and Queen of the fairies, Oberon and Titania. The adventurers find much mischief and mayhem as the fairies’ magic turns the world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream upside down – a man has even had his head turned into a donkey’s! 🪄🫏But will they find everything that Connie needs in time for her to make her presentation? And will Shakespeare’s play have a happy ending, or will everything remain topsy-turvy?Join us as we land in the world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for fairy tricks, magical love potions and lovers loving the wrong people! ❤️😍❤️Read the transcript of this 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 13th March! 😀Mentioned in this episode:Shelly & The Can Do KidsShelly & The Can-Do Kids is a storytelling podcast for kids aged 6-10. It is brought to you by two mothers who love stories, but can’t bear to just read them aloud to their children, like normal parents, but instead like to spend months recording them with music and sound effects!! There will be songs. There will be good chat. There will be magic! Join Shelly as she seeks to make kids ‘a little bit more can-do!’ Armchair Adventures Patreon Ad📣📣 Calling all Adventurers.... You too can star in an episode of Armchair Adventures as one of our special guest adventurers! All you need to do is ask your grown up if you can join the Armchair Adventures fanclub on patreon. Simply head to patreon.com and search Armchair Adventures for more info!

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• UNPACKED: An Ancient Egypt Adventure

  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 Egyptian Adventure from season 5. In the adventure, Connie and the gang travel back through the sands of time to Ancient Egypt to meet Hatshepsut, the first female Pharoah. 🐫🔺🏺 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! “And if you’re really stuck with our super hard Ancient Egyptian quiz questions, you can always ask your Mummy for help!” 😂Mentioned in this episode:Armchair Adventures Patreon Ad📣📣 Calling all Adventurers.... You too can star in an episode of Armchair Adventures as one of our special guest adventurers! All you need to do is ask your grown up if you can join the Armchair Adventures fanclub on patreon. Simply head to patreon.com and search Armchair Adventures for more info!

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• An Ancient Egypt Adventure - Part 2

  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 history lesson like no other! ⏳🎶Read the transcript of this 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 13th February! 😀Mentioned in this episode:Armchair Adventures Patreon Ad📣📣 Calling all Adventurers.... You too can star in an episode of Armchair Adventures as one of our special guest adventurers! All you need to do is ask your grown up if you can join the Armchair Adventures fanclub on patreon. Simply head to patreon.com and search Armchair Adventures for more info!

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• An Ancient Egypt Adventure - Part 1

  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:Armchair Adventures Patreon Ad📣📣 Calling all Adventurers.... You too can star in an episode of Armchair Adventures as one of our special guest adventurers! All you need to do is ask your grown up if you can join the Armchair Adventures fanclub on patreon. Simply head to patreon.com and search Armchair Adventures for more info!

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• A BAF-Ding Awards Adventure!

  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! 🎶

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