Anorak: The Happy Podcast For Kids

"How easy it to be a fashion designer?" "how did people dye their clothes?"

This latest episode of our Happy Podcast for Kids is all about FASHION. Fashion designer Katie Eary tells us how she designs fashion, how being a futurist helps and fashion historian Amber Butchart takes us on a trip back in time where we discover how the mucus glands of sea snails were used to die clothes!

Thank you to our Little Editors for their wonderful contributions, namely Alfie (UK, 10 years old), Tove (USA, 6 years old), Sage (USA, 8 years old), Lennie (UK, 10 years old), and Eliza (UK, 9 years old).

Our Happy Podcast is 100% self-financed so if you like what you hear and would like to support our mission to bring joy & creativity to childhoods, please click here.

Edit & music production by Kenji Productions.

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"How do you choose the items to put in the museum?"

Do you wonder what happens behind-the-scenes of a museum? Well, wonder no more as thanks to our Little Editors and some prestigious guests, we have the answers! In this MUSEUM-special, we speak to Dr Rebecca Rice, Curator Historical New Zealand Art of Te Papa (NZ), Naima J. Keith, Vice President of Education and Public Programs at LACMA (USA) and Tom Mahon, Founder of MoPA: The Museum of Play and Art (Australia).

Thank you to our Little Editors, Jude (UK, 8 years old), Elsie (UK, 7 years old), Sage (USA, 8 years old) and Elio (Italy, 10 years old).

Our Happy Podcast is 100% self-financed so if you like what you hear and would like to support our mission to bring joy & creativity to childhoods, please click here.

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"Who makes toys?"

Yes who does? In this episode dedicated to our favourite things, TOYS, our Little Editors interview three amazing toy makers, YiYin Wang of brilliant doll company Noodoll, Alan Goldsmith, owner of the largest toy museum in Europe, Mountfitchet Castle and Louise Heard, owner of the amazing Benjamin Pollocks Toy Shop.

Thank you to our Little Editors for their wonderful contributions, namely Kiera (10 years old), Dylan (UK, 7 years old), Monty (UK, 5 years old), Ursula (USA, 9 years old), Tove (USA, 6 years old), Frida (UK, 6 years old), Quinn (USA, 7 years old) and Eliza (UK, 9 years old).

Our Happy Podcast is 100% self-financed so if you like what you hear and would like to support our mission to bring joy & creativity to childhoods, please click here.

Edit & music production by Kenji Productions.

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"Why are dreams so weird?"

That's one of the questions our Little Editors ask our experts for this DREAMS-special episode of The Happy Podcast for Kids. Our Happy Experts include Sleep Scientist & Professor of Psychology Antonio Zadra, Dr Caroline Horton, Director of DrEAMSLab and dreams analyst Jane Theresa Anderson. We explore why we dream and why we can remember some and not others.

Thank you to Little Editors Felix (UK, 9 years old), Elsie (UK, 7 years old), Naia (Canada, 8 years old), Ema (UK, 10 years old) and Eliza (UK, 9 years old) for their brilliant contributions.

Our Happy Podcast is 100% self-financed so if you like what you hear and would like to support our mission to bring joy & creativity to childhoods, please click here.

Edit & music production by Kenji Productions.

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"What is the scariest animal you have seen on a mountain?"

In this Mountains-special episode of Anorak: the Happy Podcast for Kids, our Little Editors have some questions for boulderer and scientist Dr Favia Dubyk, for the first African lady mountaineer to have climbed Everest, Deshun Deysel and for Professor of Geology Christopher Jackson.

Thank you to Little Editors Skye (7 years old), Rory (11 years old, USA), Ines (7 years old, UK), Oscar (7 years old, UK), Ema (10 years old, UK) and Eliza (9 years old, UK) for their brilliant questions.

Our Happy Podcast is 100% self-financed so if you like what you hear and would like to support our mission to bring joy & creativity to childhoods, please click here.

Edit & music production by Kenji Productions.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.