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Series 5 trailer

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 into the cosmos, it’s going to be an unforgettable ride! 🚀

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Are you looking for a screen free alternative to entertain your kids? Or maybe a bedtime story with a difference? Or perhaps you’re after something to help pass the time on those long car journeys?

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.

Your little one can also become an official member of the Armchair Adventures Fan Club and gain access to a whole load of activities and Adventurer swag to keep them entertained for hours!

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Hey Adventurer! You now get double the Armchair Adventures fun with each adventure split into two parts and released on the first and third Thursday of each month!

Listen to series 5

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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"Great for the whole family. This is a lot of fun! Highly recommend."

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"Brilliant interactive podcast. Me & my kids started listening to this during lockdown and we're still hooked."

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"Go where the music takes you. This has a good feel good factor.'

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"Heartwarming. Great Show! Fun, lighthearted and entertaining!"

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"This is such a cool podcast - entertaining, uplifting, interactive and something my whole family can enjoy together!"

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About Armchair Adventures

Armchair Adventures is an interactive story podcast for kids!

It’s about a teenager called Connie, who lives with her parents above their struggling, family-run travel agents. She has to find a way to save the business, so she reaches out to their ‘lovely customers’. Together they hatch a plan and invent a different way to take a holiday – using your imagination!

In each, sing and move-along episode, you join Connie and her plucky team of explorers as they take you on an Armchair Adventure. You’ll visit magical places and meet extraordinary people, from tackling the biggest obstacle course on earth or travelling the world on a magical bike, to visiting a superheroes secret lair or trekking on a extraordinary tree top walk!

Armchair Adventures is designed for kids to listen on their own, together with their family or with a group of friends. Our young adventurers say that Armchair Adventurers is perfect to listen to on long car journeys, as a bedtime story or for fun on rainy days.

…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.

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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.

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