Armchair Adventures: A Join-In Story Podcast for Kids

Season 5 is back with a bang, as Connie and the gang blast off into space! Connie and her team of adventurers are off on an exciting journey to the moon, led by Hazel—a former soldier and all-round adventure seeker. Along the way, Connie faces her own fears about going away on a camping trip without her mum. From sneaking into NASA, prepping a retired rocket and training like astronauts, this epis...

Join Connie and the gang at the Armchair Adventures Travel Agency as they kick off Season 5 with a bang! ✨ The agency is celebrating with a fireworks display, and they're inviting all adventurers to join in on the fun. This season promises to be packed with super fun join-in adventures led by Connie, Uncle Chris, and all her lovely customers From a thrilling theme park escapade to blasting off in...

Deep underground, Connie and her customers learn the Oil monster is friendly after all, and how using fossil fuels for her new prom dress damages the environment. Connie decides that reusing her mums 1980s dress is the best way forward …the thing is, it’s still not her style…at all… 👗🧵🛢 ‘It’s important for me to wear my mum’s prom dress…even though it really, really, really doesn’t suit me…’ Amy...

Connie’s lovely customer Pat wants to go on an adventure to learn what her clothes are made of and how she can shop more sustainably… 👗🧵🐑 ‘I’d love to know how I can help the planet whilst still looking good!’ Meanwhile, Connie is worrying she will have to wear her Mum’s 1980’s prom dress if she doesn’t order one off the internet in time! The trouble is, Connie doesn’t really understand what th...

*NEWS FLASH* This just in…Connie needs some help understanding research for a school project, so she asks her trusty Uncle Chris and her lovely customers if they know anyone who could help her out! ‘Wow, it’s like the Batcave…Look at all the robots and machines.’ 🦖🕵🏻🤖 Uncle Chris gets in touch with his good friend Dr Rachel, dons his news reporter character and adventures to her super-secret re...

Connie’s running out of time to write a play on the roman invasion of Britain for her drama class, so she asks Uncle Chris and his community theatre company to lend her a hand! ‘Silence! You’re forgetting one thing everyone…I am no longer Uncle Chris…I am the emperor of Rome, and emperors do whatever they like!’ 🏛️🏆🐎 Styling himself as the new emperor of Rome, Uncle chris takes us to a giant amp...

Connie and her customers have been asked to step in to perform for the UK in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – but they don’t have a song, costumes, a dance routine, or anything, yet! “I really don’t want nil points!!” “Nobody wants nil points!” 🎤✨🌍 There’s no time to waste! Connie and her customers hop back on the magical tour bus to travel across Europe, on a mission to gather everything...

Connie wants to help bring her squabbling school year group back together by preparing the most fantastic performance that will make the School’s Spring Song Contest an enormous success! “Good Evening Everybody! Let the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 commence!” 🎤✨🌍 Luckily, her Uncle Chris and troupe of trusty customers are super fans of The Eurovision Song Contest, the world’s biggest music comp...

Uncle Chris and his community theatre company are on the run from some vicious guards in Elizabethan England! ‘What on earth do you think you’re doing here? How dare you interrupt my play…’ 👑⚔🪶 In their quest to find out the facts about Shakespeare for Connie, and the queens guards hot on their heels, the gang crash head first into a performance of one of his plays…and come face to face with Que...

Connie needs help with her Shakespeare essay, so she asks Uncle Chris and his community theatre company to lend her a hand! ‘It feels quite royal in here, almost like we are at the Tudor court…’ 🫅📜✨ A bit rusty on their Shakespearean knowledge, Uncle Chris takes his theatre company back in time to Tudor, England, to gather the facts as they happen. But when he accidentally offends Queen Elizabe...

Welcome to the prestigious Armchair Adventures Grammy Awards , or AAGA's for short, where Uncle Chris picks out his favourite musical moments from the episodes so far! 🎶🏆👩‍🎤 "First up is the AAGA for 'Best Use Of A Musical Instrument To Represent An Animal!" 🐦🎵 While Connie makes her way back from Mrs Maestro's 'Musical Extravaganza Adventure', she's asked her Uncle Chris to pick out his fav...

“Strap yourself in, everybody; this last bit of the journey will be quite the ride.” 🚌🎻🎵 In the third part of this musical trio, Mrs Maestro’s rickety old bus has to go through some tricky and slightly bonkers terrain, including a long dark tunnel, a sticky and slimy swamp, and a wiggly windy road. With the whole orchestra safely onboard the bus, this final leg of the journey does some very pec...

The next stop is the string family from the ice cream parlour! Mrs Maestro's journey to get the musicians in the orchestra to the super-duper concert on time continues. Mrs Maestro gets confused when it's time to pay for all those delicious ice creams, and Connie and her customers come to her aid. 🚌🎻🍦 “Don’t worry Mrs Maestro, let’s do it together. We’ll help you. Isn’t that right gang?” The ne...

Meet Mrs Maestro- a local bus company owner and music super-fan. Join her, Connie, and Connie’s customers en route to pick up the musicians in an orchestra and get them to the super-duper concert on time. 🚌🎻🎼 “We love music. It sets our imaginations wild and free”. In this episode (the first of three musical specials), Mrs Maestro’s ancient steam-powered patented route planner blows up, and she...

Welcome back to Part 2 of our 'Girl Power Scrapbook Adventure', where Connie and her customers learn more about local inspirational women and their positive affirmations. "‘Walk in my shoes, run in my wake" 🏃‍♀✨💪🏽 Connie and her customers are stuck in cyberspace!! But Connie has been asked by the Mayor to sing at a special event, celebrating local inspirational women. How will she make it to t...

"Girls are strong, and girls are clever, look out world 'cos here we come!" 🦸‍♀️📕💖 Connie is asked to sing at the local mayor's inspirational women's event but needs a little self-belief. So, her lovely customers take her on an adventure inside Ada's Girl Power scrapbook! All the amazing women come to life in the scrapbook pictures and teach Connie and the gang how important it is to celebrate...

Uncle Chris is hosting Christmas this year, so he and his community theatre company set out to make it the best Christmas day EVER! "For the tastiest, tinselliest Christmas, Uncle Chris. You need Brussel sprouts!" 🎄🎅❄️ Disaster has struck at Connie's house! The oven has broken, and it's days before Christmas! How will they make Christmas dinner? 🍗 Uncle Chris to the rescue! Uncle Chris usually...

Connie decides to create a hit Christmas single with the help of the adventurers and special guest Ian from Blueprint Studios! “There's nothing like a festive song to lift your Christmas spirits! ”   🎄🎅✨ In this festive episode of Armchair Adventures, Connie is getting musical. Extra special guests join the gang: Andy, a musical maestro, and Ian, a producer at Blueprint Studios! 🎶 To...

Hey Adventurers, we have some very exciting news for you....Connie and the gang have been in a super cool music studio to record their very own Christmas single....and you can listen to it right now!! 🎄🎶🎅🏻 The smash hit features Connie, her customers and adventurers and even a special guest appearance from the big man himself....FATHER CHRISTMAS! Let us know what you think of our new song 'It'...

Connie and her customers are in the vibrant land of Gujarat, India, where Connie and her fellow adventurers are immersed in the festivities of a traditional Hindu wedding! “Traditions give the next generation an understanding of their cultural background.”   👳🏽✨❤ In part 2, Connie is still in Gujarat and super nervous about being a bridesmaid! Dipak Dristi, a social group for older pe...

Connie has been invited to a Hindu wedding! To prepare for the big day, Connie and her lovely customers are off on another exciting Armchair Adventure to Gujarat in India ✨ 🇮🇳 “Gujaratis have many different rituals, traditions and ceremonies of our own!”   💍❤👳🏽 With the help of special guest adventurers from Dipak Dristi, a social group for older people of South Asian heritage, Conni...

Connie is making her own scary movie! So she's set Uncle Chris and his local community theatre group a mission to collect the top ten ingredients she needs to make a super scary mooooovie!  🎥 👻 “Scary movies often start on a stormy night, with fog, rain, thunder, lightning, and strong winds lashing against the side of an old house high up on a hill for example!”  🎃👻🐾 Join Uncle Chri...

“This adventure is helping me feel happier and more relaxed too. Being up here, floating in space.”  👩‍🚀 🌎 It’s part 2 of our Digging Into The Past Adventure ! And we are shooting with the stars in this adventure! 💫 Connie is feeling anxious about her upcoming house move, so Walter suggests some SPACE archaeology to help Connie get a new perspective on her worries. 🚀 The gang are joined...

We are DIGGING series 4, as Connie takes a break from packing to explore an archaeological dig! “Archaeology is a way to build connections between us and the people who came before us.”   ⛏️🏺🗺️ Welcome back adventurers to a BRAND NEW SERIES of Armchair Adventures ! In this exciting first episode, Connie and her regular customers are joined by Dr Campbell Price, an Egyptologist from...

We've got some exciting news for you…📣 To coincide with the launch of Season 4 of Armchair Adventures, we have launched our brand-new Armchair Adventure Fan Club ! We’re calling on all our curious, cool, and super adventurers to join our Official Fan Club on  Patreon . By joining the fan club, you'll help us to: 1. 🌍 Make adventures that kids across the globe can enjoy. 2. 🗣️...