Childrens magazine exploring everything under the sun, with features and songs
Barney Harwood meets Leah Cooper, who won a BAFTA award for the short film she made for CBBC's Me and My Movie competition. Kirsten O'Brien meets Pixar animator John Lasseter.
DetailsBarney Harwood does some creative writing with Andy Stanton, author of a series of books about a very bad man called Mr Gum.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents a prank-filled April Fool's Day edition of the children's magazine with authors Francesca Simon and Jeremy Strong.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets Rick Riordan, author of the fantasy adventures starring demi-god Percy Jackson.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. This edition looks at books with an environmental theme.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He talks to Terry Deary, author of the Kingfisher trilogy, about ancient Greek myths.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He goes underground with some young archaeologists to explore the Williamson tunnels in Liverpool.
DetailsChildren's magazine presented by Kirsten O'Brien. Author Kevin Crossley-Holland talks about his writing, his love of Norfolk and music. Plus music from percussion group AfroReggae.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. Featuring a look at the new Launchpad at the Science Museum and reviews of some of the best science books published this year.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He looks at some of the classic naughty characters in children's literature, including the mischievous wooden puppet Pinocchio.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Barney Harwood talks tactics and fair play with a young go-kart racer and cricketer Rosalie Birch.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. This programme examines the enduring appeal of Enid Blyton.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He visits the British Library to celebrate the story of the Ramayana, a Sanskrit epic poem dating from the fourth century BC.
DetailsKirsten O'Brien is joined by professor of cognitive psychology Martin Conway to explore how memory works and Andy Salmon reveals an intriguing way of improving the memory.
DetailsThe children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome.
DetailsAfrican music group Chaconne Brass teach Barney Harwood to play the African drums.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. Philip Pullman tells Natalie Barrass why he is writing a comic strip. Barney visits the Dan Dare exhibition at the Science Museum.
DetailsBarney Harwood meets Romany storyteller Richard O'Neill. Music comes from Gypsy Leeboy Winter. David McFetridge talks to Daniel Morden, author of Dark Tales from the Woods.
DetailsBarney Harwood focuses on ice, sleighs and polar bears as he finds out about life in the Arctic. Glenn Morris from Arctic Voice talks him through survival in sub-zero temperatures.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. He talks to two writers whose books are set at sea.
DetailsKirsten O'Brien presents the children's magazine. Charlie Higson talks about his latest Young Bond adventure, which sees the boy spy's first foray into romance.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. Natalie Barrass interviews author Morris Gleitzman about his latest book Doubting Thomas. Rainer Hersch and the team compose a song.
DetailsKirsten O'Brien presents the children's magazine. Children in the Isle of Man discuss issues connected with smoking. Izzy, star of CBBC show The Smokehouse, offers advice.
DetailsPresenter Barney Harwood meets Linda Buckley-Archer, author of historical novel The Tar Man, about a feared criminal in London in 1763 and that includes scenes set in Kew Gardens.
DetailsBarney Harwood meets dragon enthusiasts, including imaginary pet expert Professor Georgie Blink. He is joined by Gareth P Jones, author of the Dragon Detective Agency series.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. Featuring competitions, interviews, interactive discussions and a story.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Kirsten O'Brien learns about tales of ghostly hauntings at Ham House in London and gets a lesson in writing a horror story from Vampirates author Justin Somper.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Barney Harwood meets author Cathy Cassidy to talk about the unusual families that she describes in her fiction.
DetailsBarney Harwood finds out how children and opera get along together. He talks to some of the 200 young performers involved in a new choral work, On the Rim of the World.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. This programme looks at the importance of grandparents with author Jeanne Willis.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Michelle Paver, author of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, describes what it would have been like to live in the Stone Age.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. Author Michael Rosen takes the team to the Dickens World theme park.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. Three children discuss their experiences of bereavement with Barney and Michael Rosen, author of The Sad Book.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He recounts the adventures of some explorers.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Barney Harwood and the team investigate money and the current financial crisis.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets Lucy Hawking to discuss her book George's Secret Key to the Universe, which she co-wrote with her father Stephen Hawking.
DetailsBarney Harwood visits a farm, tries his hand at egg collecting, meets some newborn lambs and discovers where his food really comes from.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets a children's author who gave up making computer games to write books, and reads a book that works like a game.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets some rookie lifeguards who teach him about water safety. Author Lauren St John chats about her book Dolphin Song.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Natalie Barrass goes to a re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings and meets people who spend all their spare time pretending to be Vikings or Normans.
DetailsThink of a number: Barney Harwood presents a mind-bending edition with magician Bradley Fields, who uses maths in his magic tricks.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. This edition features a dream robot and a Robocup heat where children's own robots take part in dance competitions.
DetailsBarney Harwood explores the world of inventions, finding out how to become an inventor, what a patent is and how to obtain one, and trying to determine the world's worst invention.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He investigates the history of magic with Hocus Pocus author Paul Kieve. Natalie Barrass talks to Daniel Radcliffe.
DetailsKirsten O'Brien goes shopping with children to find out what's cool and what isn't, what makes a craze, what age kids stop playing with toys and if shopping makes them happy.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He finds out what it takes to adapt a book for the stage with the author of The Fang Gang series.
DetailsChildren's magazine presented by Kirsten O'Brien. Blue Peter is soon to celebrate its 50th birthday. Kirsten O'Brien and three inquisitive listeners examine its enduring appeal.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He discusses pets with authors Michael Cox and Betty Birney.
DetailsKirsten O'Brien presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. Guest is Caroline Lawrence, author of The Roman Mysteries series.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He visits a school with its own allotment and finds out how to grow vegetables. He is joined by author Emma Cooper.
DetailsBarney Harwood travels back to Britain just after the Second World War with the help of author Michelle Magorian.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. When he discovers his biscuits are missing, the children in the studio create their own detective story and identify the thief.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Kirsten O'Brien meets David Walliams to talk about his book 'The Boy in the Dress' and being the odd one out.
DetailsBarney Harwood and the team find out about Charles Darwin at the Natural History Museum. Plus Kirsten O'Brien talks to David Attenborough.
DetailsBarney Harwood and the team visit the Cambridge Science Festival. They do sums at the Millennium Maths Project and hear songs about Science Superheroes like Galileo.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. This programme features two brothers who have written a novel together about an invention gone horribly wrong.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Kirsten O'Brien and Beaver Towers author Nigel Hinton visit a beaver sanctuary in Kent.
DetailsBarney Harwood looks at diaries with author Louise Rennison. Plus an interview with writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes on the eve of her 80th birthday.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine, taking a look at music and film making. Conductor Chris Gayford explains what a conductor really does.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. With Lauren Child, he celebrates the red-haired wondergirl Pippi Longstocking, whose creator Astrid Lindgren was born 100 years ago.
DetailsIn a special edition of the programme, recorded at the Free Thinking Festival, Liverpool, Barney Harwood talks to an audience of children about how to make the world a better place.
DetailsNatalie Barrass presents the children's magazine. Studio guest is author Michael Morpurgo, who talks about the stage version of his book War Horse.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets two listeners who adore the Little House on the Prairie series and hears more about author Laura Ingalls Wilder's life.
DetailsBarney Harwood meets some Gurkha kids who send audio messages to their dads in the army and a boy who podcast to his class mates when he spent two months on a tiny Scottish island.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. This edition looks at books about football.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents a special Olympics programme, featuring young 2012 Olympic hopefuls. Plus an interview with teenage diving sensation Tom Daley.
DetailsChildren's magazine. In anticipation of his inauguration as president of the United States, Barney Harwood finds out about Barack Obama and the history of the civil rights movement.
DetailsBarney Harwood goes behind the scenes on the Dr Who set in Cardiff, where he learns how the monsters are created.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. This programme looks at sleep, dreams and sleepwalking.
DetailsChildren's magazine, featuring a boy who found a real dinosaur fossil and visits a school allowed to borrow exhibits from the local museum for its own collection.
DetailsNatalie Barrass presents the children's magazine. Writer Cornelia Funke talks about the experience of having her books turned into films.
DetailsChildren's magazine with Kirsten O'Brien, who meets some of the lucky 50 children from 600 who auditioned to join the London Children's Ballet production of Snow White.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He explores the world of creepy crawlies.
DetailsChildren's magazine presented by Kirsten O'Brien. She and the team get an old-fashioned makeover at the Museum of Childhood's Top to Toe children's clothing exhibition.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He talks to children from Essex who gave writer Ben Myers ideas for his new book. David McFetridge visits Live Theatre in Newcastle.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He looks at Japanese animation with Helen McCarthy, author of The Anime Encyclopedia.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. He hears winning poems about horrid brothers and moody sisters.
DetailsBarney Harwood meets writers inspired by the Grant Museum in London, an amazing zoology museum housing over 62,000 species and an incredible number of extinct creatures.
DetailsNatalie Barrass presents the children's magazine. She goes for a walk with an unusual book club for fans of Life in the Wood with Joni-pip, a time-travel adventure by Carrie King.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Natalie Barrass receives a chocolate tutorial from author Vivian French, who likes chocolate so much she wrote a book about it.
DetailsChildren's magazine presented by Barney Harwood. Angela Robson hears about a Comic Relief project in southern Ethiopia that is helping children to get to school.
DetailsChildren's magazine as Barney Harwood presents a show packed with lively debate and special guests.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. Featuring competitions, interviews, interactive discussions and a story.
DetailsBarney Harwood travels to Norwich to hear about a book, Gervelie's Journey, based on the experience of a girl refugee who escaped the conflict in the Congo.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. This programme looks at books set in schools, from Mallory Towers to Hogwarts.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine, taking a look at books about horses with author and Black Beauty fan Meg Roscoff.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. With the help of studio guests, he explores the human heart.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Kirsten O'Brien and a group of primary school children from Gloucestershire explore children's games through the ages.
DetailsNatalie Barrass presents a special pantomime edition of the children's magazine. Studio guest is Clive Rowe, who plays the dame in Hackney Empire's Dick Whittington.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets novelist Julia Golding, creator of the eighteenth-century heroine Cat Royal.
DetailsBarney Harwood is joined by Michael Rosen, Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Ardagh and Kaye Umansky for the final edition of the children's magazine.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. This edition looks at the world of fictional cats and dogs.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets a couple of wizards who teach him some magic spells. Natalie Barrass finds out what it takes to make a film.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Barney Harwood is joined by gadget geek Jason Bradbury to talk about robots and Natalie Barrass catches up with TV presenter Richard Hammond.
DetailsBarney Harwood learns all about the science of spying, from 'see in the dark goggles' to face modification masks. And there are some mind-boggling experiments from a lab in a lorry.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. This edition celebrates 200 years since the abolition of slavery with author Malorie Blackman.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets Maria Harris, author of The Joshua Files. The book is an adventure set in Mexico, inspired by the ancient Mayan beliefs.
DetailsKirsten O'Brien presents the progamme from the Free Thinking Festival in Liverpool. She talks to writer Frank Cottrell Boyce. Carolyne Willow answers children's questions.
DetailsKirsten O'Brien discovers the truth about Henry VIII and explores the treasures of the Mary Rose, which sank in the Solent in 1545.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He looks at books about dinosaurs and a fan meets Astrosaurs author Steve Cole.
DetailsChildren's magazine presented by Kirsten O'Brien. How a passion for ships led to Jordan, a boy from land-locked Botswana, being on board the Queen Mary II in Southampton.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He explores the history of flight. Natalie Barrass meets Eoin Colfer at Duxford Imperial War Museum to talk about his book Airman.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. The team learn about money as they visit the Museum of the Bank of England.
DetailsThe children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. Author Philip Reeve tells Barney Harwood how the legends of King Arthur could have been invented.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He meets Emily Gravett, author of Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears, the 2008 winner of the Kate Greenaway medal.
DetailsNatalie Barrass tries to write funny songs with the comedian Mitch Benn and speaks to Sandra Boynton, author of the music book for children Blue Moo.
DetailsNatalie Barrass presents the children's magazine. David McFetridge meets horror writer Darren Shan to find out what happens next in his gory Demonata series.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Kirsten O'Brien looks back at the year on Go4it and finds lots of famous authors, quite a few animals, silliness, science, and heaps of history.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Barney Harwood is given a tour of the Wallace and Gromit A Grand Day Out exhibition at the Science Museum in London.
DetailsKirsten O'Brien presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. She talks to Anthony Horowitz and Kelly McKain about children's books.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine and enters the magical world of Narnia as actress Georgia Henley talks about playing Lucy in the latest Narnia film, Prince Caspian.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine which explores everything from pop music to ancient Rome. He meets award-winning illustrator Mini Grey.
DetailsBarney Harwood looks at some spectacular pictures painted on Nebaumn's tomb in Ancient Egypt nearly 3,500 years ago, recently restored by the British Museum for an exhibition.
DetailsChildren's magazine. Kirsten O'Brien and the team learn how to crack a joke with lessons from a stand-up comedy teacher and a successful 13-year-old comedian.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents highlights of the children's magazine from 2007, including the Dogs v Cats debate, escaping beetles and the Quiz of Quizzes.
DetailsBarney Harwood presents the children's magazine. He visits the Science Museum for an exhibition called Science of Survival, where his guests design a city for the year 2050.
DetailsA Go4it Special: Barney Harwood presents the children's magazine. Three children discuss their experiences of bereavement with Barney and Michael Rosen, author of The Sad Book.
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