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Fun Kids Book Worms
Join Bex from the children's radio station Fun Kids as she meets top authors who tell her about their books and also read us chapters from them. Plus, Bex and friends recommend their favourite kids books of the month. You can listen to Bex on Fun Kids (weekdays from 4pm) on DAB Digital Radio across...
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Alex Horne from Taskmaster Shares His Funniest Story Yet!🪨📚
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This week, we’ve got a magical line-up of stories you won’t want to miss!
First, Harriet Munc...
First Aid School for Future Superheroes🩺❤️🩹
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First up, it’s Maisie Chan with Nate Yu’s Blast from the Past, a thrilling adventure full of time-t...
Learn How to Turn Your Living Room Into a Magical Tropical World 🌴✨
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First up, it’s Nicola Davies’ Skrimsli, an epic adventure following a brave tiger and his friends o...
Hidden Clues, Secret Codes, and Epic Adventures! 🗝️🧩
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First up, Georgia Channon — author of The Curse of the Silvan Oaks. If you love mysteries, magical...
Magic, Mysteries & School Trip Surprises! ✨🕵️♀️
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First up, Andy Shepherd’s The Wood Where Magic Grows is full of surprises — who
knows what ki...
Psst… There’s a Roman Hiding in Your Garden!
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First up, Alex Field’s Ava Spark: Hello, I’m Here! highlights the power of using your
voice...
MARTIN STEWART, JENNIFER CLAESSEN, EMMA SWAN & CLELIA CASTRO-MALASPINA: Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing, Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime, Cruise Ship Kid & Girls with Goals
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First up, we’re making a splash with Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing, where
Martin Stewar...
TERRI LIBENSON, LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES & DR. JAMES GREENWOOD: Entirely Emmie, Vivi Conway and the Lost Hero & How to Talk to Your Pet
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This week, Bex chats to Terri Libenson about her new book Entirely Emmie, a graphic novel about fri...
CRESSIDA COWELL, JUSTIN SOMPER, MATT GOODFELLOW & JACKIE MORRIS: How to Train Your Dragon, Pirate Academy: Sword Echoes, The First Year & The Summer Puppy
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There’s swashbuckling, secret missions, and even a magical sword in Pirate Academy: Sword Echoes—Ju...
THE WEEK JUNIOR BOOK AWARDS 2025: Deborah Meaden, Matt Goodfellow & Sarah Morrell
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Get ready, book lovers we have a very special episode installed for you this week!
It’s time...
KATE GRIGGS, CLARE HARLOW & RACHEL MORRISROE: Xtraordinary People, Tidemagic and Felix and the Future Agency
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Bex is joined by dyslexia champion Kate Griggs, whose new book Xtraordinary People celebrates how t...
GT KARBER & SUZIE EDGE: Murdle Junior and History Stinks! Wee, Snot and Poo Through Tim
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First up, Bex is joined by TikTok historian Suzie Edge whose hilarious new book -
History St...
ZOHRA NABI & FRANN PRESTON-GANNON : Deep Dark and Little Lim and the Golden Treasure
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This week on Bookworms, we plunge into the shadowy streets of Victorian London with Deep Dark by Zo...
NICOLA BAKER & ASH BOND: Whistledown Farm and Peregrine Quinn
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First up, Nicola Baker whisks us away to the countryside in Whistledown Farm: Meeting Meg, where ma...
GREG JAMES & CHRIS SMITH, TAMSIN MORI, EVE WERSOCKI-MORRIS AND ELLA DOVE: The Kid Who Fell Through Time, The Watcher, Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed & How To Roller-Skate with One Leg
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First up, get ready for time-travel twists as Radio 1 star, Greg James, and co-author, Chris Smith,...
PÁDRAIG KENNY, BARBARA HENDERSON & CLAIRE HATCHER-SMITH: After, I Don't Do Mountains & Mizzy's Mysteries
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First up, it's Claire Hatcher-Smith's Mizzy's Mysteries which follows twelve-year-old Mizzy as she...
ELENA FAVILLI, MC GRAMMAR, BROGAN MURPHY & HUGH RAINE: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, The Adventures of Rap Kid, Wildlands & Betty and Yeti
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First up, we have Elena Favilli, co-author of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls—the
bestsell...
JENNY MCLACHLAN, PAMELA BUTCHART & RHIAN TRACEY: Dragon Riders of Raw, Diary of a Future Billionaire & Wink, Murder
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First, we’re soaring into an action-packed fantasy with Jenny McLachlan’s Dragon Riders of Raw—a th...
WORLD BOOK DAY 2025: Benjamin Dean & Kiran Millwood Hargrave
It’s World Book Day 2025, and this week, Bex is joined by two authors whose books are available for just £1 with your World Book Day token.
Firs...
JB GILL, JUDITH EAGLE, LIZ HYDER & PENNY BOXALL: Ace and The Animal Heroes, The Great Theatre Rescue, The Twelve & Letty and The Mystery of The Golden Thread
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This week, we're stepping into 1930s London with The Great Theatre Rescue by Judith Eagle, which fo...
GORDON D'ARCY, ESTHER MARSHALL & GREGG MILLMAN: Let's Play Rugby, Sophie Says & The Kandy Kingdom
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On this week's episode, Bex chats to former Hollywood screenwriter, Gregg Millman, about his new b...
CHRIS PACKHAM, SUSAN BROWNRIGG & JOEL ARCANJO: Superhero Plants, Wrong Tracks & The Impossible Fortress
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On this week's episode, Susan Brownrigg tells us about her latest historical adventure as we trave...
SIBEAL POUNDER & JORDAN LEES: Sprouts & The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found
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Bex kicks off with Sibéal Pounder’s Sprouts—set in a world where it’s Christmas every day! Join Gr...
The Best of 2024!
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Today we have a very special episode, we revisit some of the wonderful authors we've had on Book Wo...
LAURENCE ANHOLT, CARIAD LLOYD & JOSEPH COELHO: SMALL STORIES OF GREAT ARTISTS, THE CHRISTMAS WISH-TASTROPHE AND RELIC HAMILTON, GENIE HUNTER
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Bex gets us started with the brilliant Laurence Anholt who talks everything to do with his new boo...
MATT LUCAS, KONNIE HUQ, VICKY COWIE & ANDY DAY: THE BOY WHO SLEPT THROUGH CHRISTMAS, CHILDREN FOR CHANGE, TALES FROM MUGGLESWICK WOOD & DINO DAD
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Andy Day about his new book Dino Dad where a quirky paleontologi...
DAVID BADDIEL, DONNCHA O'CALLAGHAN & KATE MCKINNON: Small Fry, Disaster Dad: Chicken Chaos & The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
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To kick things off Bex chatted to David Baddiel about his new book Small Fry where we meet Burger...
LUCY STRANGE, PAM SMY & KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE: The Ghosts of the Manor & In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Lucy Strange and Pam Smy all about The Ghosts of the Manor, the...
LISA WILLIAMSON, ANNA JAMES & LIZ PICHON: Bigg School Secret Crush, Chronicles of Wetherwhy & Ha Ha Hilarious
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Lisa Williamson to chat about the latest installment in her Big...
ADAM KAY, SALLY GARDNER, SKYE MCKENNA & MOLLY ARBUTHNOTT: Dextor Proctor The 10 Year Old Doctor, Pernickety Boo, Seawitch & Peanut The Hamster
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Adam Kay to talk about his brand new book Dextor Proctor The 10...
ANTON DU BEKE & DERMOT O'LEARY: Code Name Foxtrot & Spy Fox and Agent Feathers
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To kick things off Bex chats to Anton Du Beke about his brand new book Code Name Foxtrot where Har...
CHRIS HAUGHTON & JUSTIN SOMPER: The History of Information & Pirate Academy: Missing at Sea
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To kick things off Bex chats to Chris Haughton about The History of Information where we learn abo...
JACQUELINE WILSON & CHARLIE HIGSON: Star of the Show & Worst Superhero Ever
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To kick things off Bex chats to Jacqueline Wilson about her brand new book Star of the Show where...
CARYL LEWIS, JAMIE LITTLER & SARAH AND RODNEY MATTHEWS: The Boy and the Octopus, Arkspire 2 & Oddney's Otherland
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Caryl Lewis about The Boy & The Octopus where we meet Stanley an...
KATE PANKHURST & MOLLY FORBES: Fantastically Great Women & Every Body
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Kate Pankhurst about Fantastically Great Women: Sport Stars and...
GRAEME HALL & MEL TAYLOR-BESSENT: The Ultimate Kids Guide to Dogs & The Race to Imagination Island
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Mel Taylor-Bessent all about her new book Race to Imagination Is...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL & BRYONY PEARCE: Talk Politics & Hannah Messenger
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To kick things off Bex chatted to award-winning author Bryony Pearce about Hannah Messenger and the...
CATHY FITZGERALD, SHARNA JACKSON & NADIA SHIREEN: Pinch Perkins and the Midsummer Curse, The Nine Night Mystery & Grimwood - Party Animals
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Cathy Fitzgerald about Pinch Perkins and the Midsummer Curse whi...
JENNIFER BELL, IONA RANGELEY & LIZ KESSLER: Magicalia, Einstein the Penguin & Code Name Kingfisher
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Jennifer Bell about Magicalia: Race of Wonders. A spectacular ne...
RACHEL MORRISROE & MAZ EVANS: Supersausage to the Rescue & Oh Mummy Mia!
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To kick things off Bex chatted to Rachel Morrisroe about her new release Supersausage to the Rescu...