A Magical Mural Adventure: Brand-new two-part Armchair Adventure episode out now!
May 22, 2025
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Listen to the latest episode of Armchair Adventures Season 5!
A Greek Gods Olympic Adventure - Part 1
Connie is playing Hera, Queen of the Gods, in her school play, but she’s finding the pressure a lot to deal with and keeps freezing up in rehearsals… 🎭
“This is a lovely costume…buuuuut… I’m playing Hera, Queen of the Gods. I don’t think I’ll do it justice!”
Wanting her to believe in herself, Uncle Chris and his trusty community theatre company take her back to ancient Greece to meet the Gods themselves for some inspiration! ⋆༺𓆩🏛️🍇
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A Magic Mural Adventure - Part 2
Welcome back to part 2 of ‘A Magical Mural Adventure!’
Whilst on their journey inside the magical mural, Connie and her lovely customers have helped rescue a rocket-speed turtle called Turbo 🐢 from a plastic disaster and are now they are trying to help a mother polar bear 🐻❄️ reunite with her cub, who is floating away on a piece of melting sea ice!
A Magic Mural Adventure - Part 1
Connie’s decorating the art party at school and our lovely customer Pauline is looking for some creative inspiration! Seeing that Connie’s ordering a lot of single-use plastic for the event, Pauline takes them on an to to learn more about plastic waste while they get a bit arty! ♻️🎨
“There is this amazing arts organisation called Plastic Shed I’d like to visit. It’s run by an artist called Caitlin, and shemakes art using recycled plastic.”
When they arrive, they see a beautiful mural showing what plastic waste does to the environment- there’s a sea turtle trapped in plastic, a polar bear on melting ice, and a hermit crab having to use a traffic cone as a shell!🐢🐻❄️🐚
UNPACKED: A Record-Breaking Vaccination Adventure
It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge once again, with a brand spanking new episode of UNPACKED, the join in quiz show spin-off from Armchair Adventures!
Our host, Connie’s Uncle Chris 🧔🏻♂️ and his cheeky soundboard Ziggy 🔈will challenge adventurers at home and in the studio to ‘Unpack’ an Armchair Adventure through a series of silly games like ‘human sound effects’ and super tough adventure quiz questions! 🙋🏾♀️
A Record-Breaking Vaccination Adventure - Part 2
Whilst on their journey inside the human body Connie, Uncle Chris and her lovely customers have been caught by the immune system and taken to the lymph node for investigation! 🩻
‘It looks like we’ve arrived everyone…this lymph node really does look like a jail…’
Once they are scanned by some strange little t-cells, Connie gets involved in making anti bodies with the body’s defence system – the B-cells! 🪖
A Record-Breaking Vaccination Adventure - Part 1
Uncle Chris needs Connie’s help to break a world record, but she needs to study for a test on vaccinations! 🌎🥇
“No, stop everyone! No record-breaking burps! I’m really sorry Uncle Chris, but I’ve just been trying to tell you I can’t break a record today!”
To try and do both, Connie and her customers go on a journey of the imagination to Dr Rachel’s super-secret lab to learn all about vaccines and how they work inside our bodies. 💉🩻
UNPACKED - A Midsummer Night’s Dream Adventure
It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge once again, with a brand spanking new episode of UNPACKED! The join in quiz show spin-off from Armchair Adventures!
Our host, Connie’s Uncle Chris, and his cheeky soundboard Ziggy will challenge adventurers at home and in the studio to ‘Unpack’ an Armchair Adventure through a series of silly games like ‘human sound effects’ and super tough adventure quiz questions! 🧳
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Adventure - Part 2
Connie and Uncle Chris and his community theatre company are exploring the world of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to find out more about the themes of the mischievous play. 🎭
But they seem to have landed right in the middle of a squabble between two best friends and Puck receiving a telling off from his Master, Oberon! 🧚♂️
Will everybody be friends again and everything put right, so that the adventurers can attend the lovers’ weddings and witness a happy ending to the play? 😍💒😍
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! 🪄🫏
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. 🐫🔺🏺
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! ⏳🎶
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.
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!” 🙆🏻♂️ 😅
UNPACKED: A Christmas Song Adventure
Think you know your Armchair Adventures inside and out..?
Well, get ready to put your knowledge to the test with UNPACKED: the brand new spin-off from Armchair Adventures. It’s hosted by Connie’s Uncle Chris, and a mischevious soundboard called Ziggy. 🔉 …Armchair Adventures’ has UNPACKED! 🧳😀
UNPACKED: A Musical Extravaganza Adventure
Welcome to UNPACKED – A brand-new spin-off show to Armchair Adventures for your listening and ‘join in’ pleasure. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ has ‘It Takes Two’💃🏿, ‘The Great British Bake Off’ has an “Extra Slice’🍰, and now…Armchair Adventures’ has UNPACKED! 🧳😀
A Magical Theme Park Adventure - Part 2
Join Connie & her lovely customers as we continue our super fun adventure at the magical theme park! 🎡🎠 Things get a little bonkers when the gang splits up to explore, but oh no — Anne has gone walkies! 😱 Will the gang find her in time before the park closes?
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A Magical Theme Park Adventure - Part 1
Join Connie and her lovely customers as they adventure to THE MOST exciting, amazing, magical theme park filled with thrills, imagination, and surprises! The journey kicks off with special guest Linda, who suggests taking everyone on to a theme park to cheer everyone up, especially Connie, who’s feeling a bit anxious about reconnecting with an old friend.
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A Gunpowder, Treason and Plot Adventure - Part 2
Uncle Chris is in a right pickle…his undercover detective work hasn’t gone to plan and the King’s guards are trying to take him and his community theatre company to the Tower of London!
‘The guards are chasing us through the streets of London on horseback!’
On the run they still have to find the facts about bonfire night for Connie, risking everything they sneak into the houses of parliament to find out more! Will they be caught? Will they end up in the dungeon, or worse, tortured on the rack?!
A Gunpowder, Treason and Plot Adventure - Part 1
Connie need’s some help explaining bonfire night to some guests she has staying and asks Uncle Chris if he can help!
No sure of the facts themselves, Uncle Chris and his trusty community theatre company decide to go back to 1605 and find out the facts as they happened! But it was a very dangerous time, full of plots to kill King James the 1st, so they decide to go undercover as detectives…
‘There’s only one thing for it we will have to go undercover, like secret detectives from a Cop show!’ 👮🚨
A Giant Leap Adventure - Part 2
Connie and the gang blast off into space for an adventure to the moon! Connie initially hesitates, worried about being so far from home. However, she joins the crew just in time
for the rocket launch! 🚀
A Giant Leap Adventure - Part 1
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.
Catch up on previous Armchair Adventure Episodes here…
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We know how challenging it can be to keep your little ones entertained. So we’ve brought our community of Nannas and Granpas together to help you provide a fun, educational and interactive experience for your kids!
Armchair Adventures is a fun-packed, adventure-filled podcast for kids aged 6-10. In each episode you can act, sing and move-along as you embark on a brand-new adventure. You’ll visit magical places, meet extraordinary people and understand the world around you a little better.
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"I love this podcast! It takes you on mini-missions and adventures that you have to use your imagination to picture yourself doing. It’s perfect to listen to with friends and family"
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"A fantastic podcast with a strong community focus. The engaging audio introduces and explores important issues for young children and encourages open expression. Great to see this intergenerational work."
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About Armchair Adventures
Welcome to the Armchair Adventures Travel Agency!
Step into the world of the Armchair Adventures Travel Agency! Join Chief Explorer Connie, her Uncle Chris and the crew of lovely explorer customers, little adventurers and special guests for a ‘journey of the imagination’.
Armchair Adventures is a join-in adventure series for kids aged 6-10. Each episode whisks you away on an adventure.
It’s made with real-life grannies and grandads and along the way, you’ll learn new things about people, history, science, and different cultures.
Every adventure bursts with join-in fun, from singing along to the catchy tunes, performing along and answering creative questions (listen out for the exciting DING! sound). Plus, with amazing sound effects that bring every adventure to life, you’ll feel like you’re right there with Connie and the crew!
…And now you can become an adventurer too with our Armchair Adventures Fan Club. We also have free activities and resources, an interactive art installation and an outreach programme for you to join-in with.
There are endless possibilities for your next adventure!
How it started
Armchair Adventures is produced by Made By Mortals.
We’re a not-for-profit participatory arts organisation from Greater Manchester. We create podcasts, films and music theatre shows that bring people’s experience to life. You can find out more about us here.
We started working on Armchair Adventures in March 2020 with our theatre group of over 60s. Like many people, our community was suffering from isolation and loneliness because of lockdown. So, we wanted to create something that could boost wellbeing, be fun, and be able to be enjoyed by all of the family. Most importantly we wanted to design an experience that could be loved by anyone, at any time. Armchair Adventures was our response.
Each episode features the ideas, stories and voices of our over 60s theatre group.
In total, over 60 local older people and 25 local musicians, scriptwriters, producers, designers, filmmakers and actors make each series.
How it's going
We launched Armchair Adventures in September 2020 and the response has been so fantastic.
To date we’ve
Hundreds and thousands of listens worldwide
Consistently ranked in the Top 10 children’s podcasts in the UK
Charted No.1 across the world
1st in-flight kid’s podcast for Virgin Atlantic
Gold Winners, Audio Production Awards 2023
Nominated Independent Podcast Awards and British Podcast Awards 2024
Winners at the BBC Make A Difference Awards
Available on all Yoto kids audio players internationally
Armchair Adventures workshops to over 10,000 children in the UK
Podcast Press: Podnews, Podbible, Podcasting Today
Tabloid press: The Mirror; Daily Mail
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