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Series 4 trailer

“Armchair Adventures Travel Agency….Mission….Series 4!!”

Connie, Uncle Chris and the Armchair Adventures gang are back with a brand new series full of action packed, imagination fuelled, join in at home adventures.

They’re perfect for long car journeys, rainy day activities or bedtime stories!

Join Connie and the Armchair Adventures gang as they give you a sneak peak of what’s in store for series 4…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to bounce, bounce, bounce, along inside a giant bubble? How about a hike in a tropical jungle? Or what goes on in a top-secret superhero lair?

What if I told you, you can do all this and more with Armchair Adventures?!

My name’s Connie and along with my lovely customers, we make Armchair Adventures. And now with our Armchair Adventures Fan Club you can come along for the adventure too!

Armchair Adventures is a mega, fun-packed, adventure-filled podcast for kids aged 6-10. In each episode, you can act, sing and move-along as you, me and the gang embark on a brand-new adventure.

You’ll visit magical places, meet extraordinary people and understand the world around you a little better!

There’s also free activities and resources, an interactive art installation and an outreach programme for you to join in with! So, fancy an adventure? Serie 4 is out now…!

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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 4

Series 4 trailer

“Armchair Adventures Travel Agency….Mission….Series 4!!”

Connie, Uncle Chris and the Armchair Adventures gang are back with a brand new series full of action packed, imagination fuelled, join in at home adventures.

They’re perfect for long car journeys, rainy day activities or bedtime stories!

Join Connie and the Armchair Adventures gang as they give you a sneak peak of what’s in store for series 4…

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Catch up on previous Armchair Adventure Episodes here…

Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
About Armchair Adventures

Armchair Adventures is a join-in 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 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.

How it's going
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We launched Armchair Adventures in September 2020 and the response has been so fantastic.

 To date we’ve
 

  • Released 23 episodes.

  • Won – Bronze ‘Best Kids & Family Podcast’, British Podcast Awards 2022

  • Become Virgin Atlantic’s 1st inflight kids podcast.

  • 50,000+ listens from across the world.

  • Hit the Top 20 ‘stories for kids’ category in apple podcasts charts.

  • Delivered ‘Armchair Adventures’ workshops to over 10,000 school children.

  • Commendations from HRH Prince William and Angela Rayner MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

  • Received coverage on BBC Radio 4, Kids Radio, Podcast Radio and in Podbible

  • Won – MPA award for Best Podcast.

  • Won – Digital City Award 2021 – Best use of technology, Not-for-profit.

  • Winner – BBC Make A Difference Awards 2022

Armchair Adventures Series 3 launched in October 2022.
Where will our next Adventure take you?

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We’ve also wrote a blog about how to listen to podcasts here

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