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Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium Ciao, talofa, hello! Welcome to Mother Tongue - a children’s podcast celebrating the many wonderful languages spoken by families right across Australia! Learn to say hello in Cantonese, goodbye in Koori, sing a song in Greek, or learn all about the Lebanese flag. Mother Tongue host, Sirine says; “The idea for this show came from my experience with my daughter; the songs my mother sang to me as a child stayed with me and I sang them to her when she was born. Elyssa is now 4 years old, and still loves these songs – she’ll never forget where they came from and we should never lose this connection with our language of origin.” Sharing language and culture brings kids closer together and sparks curiosity about the world!

On each super fun episode of Vlad & Niki Podcast Adventures, two young brothers, Vlad & Niki, dive headfirst into escalating comedic hijinks as they visit cool places like a Candy Factory, a Zoo, and a Toy Workshop; discover if their house is haunted; and ride around in their very own ice cream truck. Along for the ride are their Mom, Dad and best friend, Oopsie Daisy - a pink, flying llama who may or may not be imaginary. Perfect for kids 3-6 who love to laugh, explore, and help others while learning valuable life lessons. This season of Vlad & Niki Podcast Adventures is brought to you by our partner, Flintstones™ Vitamins.

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium Is your brain more powerful than a computer? How fast is a sneeze? And what's REALLY going on inside when we feel nervous? Find out all this and more on Busy Bodies with Mr Snot Bottom! Kids will love taking off on squishy, squelchy, gooey adventures through the human body with Mr Snot Bottom who has cheeky fun dropping serious science facts and silly, icky jokes along the way.   Written and voiced by: Mr Snot Bottom (children’s entertainer and comedian - www.mrsnotbottom.com) Sound Design: Brody Green and Josh Newth Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

Hey kids! Do you keep pestering dad for “ONE MORE STORY!!!!” at bedtime? Well, we asked some famous Dads and Uncles to help out. Just press play on these excellent stories and make bedtime a breeze. Listen free on the LiSTNR app. Or listen ad-free when you subscribe to the Kinderling app.

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium The Fact Detectives are two curious kids on a mission to find out all the cool facts about EVERYTHING!  Join Anika and Dexter as they take their BIG questions to some very smart grown-ups who know lots of interesting facts about lots of interesting stuff.   Like, are there really killer butterflies? Why do we fart? What ARE fossils? Did monster kangaroos once roam the land? And what happens when we flush the toilet?   A Kinderling co-production with Museums Victoria. 

Wow in the World is a family podcast that explores the wonders of science, technology and innovation, or as hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz call it, the “Wows” that power the world around us. Through rich storytelling, interactive activities, and a whimsical, kids-first focus, Mindy and Guy encourage listeners of all ages to journey away from their screens and into a world of imagination.

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium We all have a favourite nursery rhyme. What’s yours? Join Angie Who as she sings favourite nursery rhymes and lullabies with you and your little one. Host: Angie Who Music: Angie Who, Cameron Henderson & Craig Collier Sound Design: Will Ryan Producer: Elle Beattie Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

One shoe, two shoes, I need new shoes! Off I go to the new shoe store!” Almost every child loves shopping for new shoes, but it’s not always easy to find exactly the right ones. Several shops and many inspections later, our charming but choosy heroine finds the perfect pair. From the BBC

On the Stories Podcast, Amanda Weldin performs new childrens stories every week, ranging from retellings of fairy tales like Snow White to classic stories like Peter Rabbit to completely original works. The perfect podcast for imaginative families, whether you’re on a road trip or getting ready for bed, Stories delivers entertainment that kids and parents alike will love.

Brought to life in colourful sound design, Fifi invites children into the magical worlds of two curious and courageous girls - Posey Pearl and Minty Mae Gray - as they each learn to recognise and celebrate all the things that make them, and the people around them, unique and special. Perfect for bedtime, car-time, or ANYTIME! Based on the books written by Fifi Box, illustrated by Freda Chiu and Adam Ming and published by Hardie Grant.

From playtime to teeth-time to sleepy-time, Beanies Dreamies are the perfect audio activities to soundtrack the nightly bedtime routine. Transition tired children from jump-around energy to cuddle-down calm, as they have fun brushing their teeth, putting on their pyjamas and settling into bed with The Beanies “Goodnight” lullaby. Visit thebeanies.com.au for online shop, news, free stuff and more Follow us on Facebook or Instagram: @thebeaniesaus Song credit: The Beanies Composer (AKA Music Wizard) James Court

Simon Russell Beale reads La Belle Sauvage, the first volume of Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy The Book of Dust from the BBC. Set ten years before the events of His Dark Materials, the novel explores the origins of that story. It opens in Oxford, at The Trout Inn, with a pot boy named Malcolm Polstead, and the whisper of a mysterious baby girl, hidden at the local convent, in the care of the nuns...

In each episode, a group of friends takes a journey to the Island of Explained. Kids (and adults) come along to explore the magical island and meet its whimsical inhabitants, all while exploring some of the biggest questions in the world. From Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium Slow down and snuggle down with Kinderling's relaxing meditation series which has settled children to sleep over 24 million times....and counting. Join mindfulness coach Amy Taylor-Kabbaz, as she guides kids on wonderful, imaginative journeys to magical places, visiting animals with super powers, and meeting up with some very friendly dinosaurs.  Check out Amy's website at amytaylorkabbaz.com. Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson Host: Amy Taylor-Kabbaz Sound Design: Josh Newth and Max Gosford

Matilda is a cool, calm, pint-sized five-year-old genius who has special powers. But not everything is perfect in her world. She has two of the most idiotic, self-centred parents who ever lived. And the headmistress of her school is a terrifying bully. Lenny Henry is the narrator in this dramatisation of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic. From the BBC

Published for Christmas 1871, this tantalising story by Lewis Carroll is the mirror image of his Alice in Wonderland. When Alice crashes through the looking glass she enters a world set out like a giant chess board. But can she decode the bizarre rules of the mirror-world? From the BBC

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium Daytime Explorers is designed as a resilience toolkit for children. Each episode explores a mindfulness skill or technique to help children feel strong, brave and more resilient as they journey through life. **DISCLAIMER – Daytime Explorers is a wellbeing series intended to introduce children to simple and helpful resilience tools. These tools are not designed to address complicated emotions, or replace therapeutic support from a specialised practitioner.

What do slimy frogs and freaky snakes have to do with art? How do you make art that you can’t even see? And how does NOT using your eyes help you to draw?  Outside the Lines is a fun and imaginative podcast for kids all about ART! Join some art-curious kids as they travel across the country to scratch the surface, peek behind the canvas, open the sketchbook, and dive into the creative minds of some of Australia's most inspiring artists. Art is so much more than just paintings on a wall! Subscribe now to inspire the inner artist in your child! Or listen free on the Kinderling Kids App. Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.   CREDITS Thank you to our incredible Artists:  Angela Tiatia, Ben Quilty, Dale Harding, Elisa Jane (Leecee) Carmichael, Gemma Smith, Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan, Jemima Wyman, Raquel Ormella, Ross Manning, Tony Albert. Thank you to our Hosts and Interviewers: Pip, Lottie, Rose, Kip, Marcel and Holiday.  And thank you to the wonderful QAGOMA team!  Produced by Caitlin Gibson Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

Helen McCrory reads CS Lewis’s epic fantasy adventure. Four young war evacuees are transported to the magical land of Narnia, where they join the noble lion Aslan to overthrow the White Witch.

Morning Kids is a daily, five-minute educational resource that helps kids dip a toe into the world of news in an age-appropriate way. Our goal is to contextualise life for our little ones, from gently explaining something they may have heard in the news, to what feelings are and why they may be experiencing them. We’ll be expanding their worlds and exploring foreign lands together, and introducing them to animals and their body. Created in partnership with Australian primary school teachers, Morning Kids is designed to give five- to seven-year-olds a safe listening space each weekday, whether they’re listening in the car on the way to school or around the breakfast table.

Enjoy a tale or two with these stories from our favourite children's authors.

Simon Russell Beale reads the second volume of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust. It is 20 years since the events of La Belle Sauvage unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child. From the BBC

When Peter Pan flies into the night nursery of Wendy, John and Michael Darling, he takes them on the journey – and the adventure – of a lifetime. Peter Jeffrey reads J M Barrie’s classic magical tale.

A brilliant story from Terry Pratchett, all about Tiffany Aching, an ordinary girl who gets mixed up with the Wee Free Men, a bunch of rowdy, blue-skinned pixies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being drunk and disorderly. Read by Shirley Henderson, and abridged by Neville Teller. From the BBC.

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium UnTrue: The Underdogs is a hilarious new (un)true crime fiction podcast series that’s both a fun mystery for kids AND a ‘true crime’ comedy for grown-ups! *Adapted from the book ‘The Underdogs - Catch a Cat Burglar’ by Kate and Jol Temple (illustrated by Shiloh Gordon).

Book Week is always the best week of the year! But when Alice Toolie and Jimmy Cook get involved, it's set for disaster. Can these two best frenemies leave their differences behind long enough to win the Battle of Book Week?

Auntie Sue is getting married and she's asked Daisy to be her bridesmaid. But Daisy doesn't do dresses and she certainly doesn't do lovely. Daisy wants to wear a football kit, or scuba gear, or her leopard skin suit, but Mum and Auntie Sue drag her off to the dress shop. Daisy thinks everything is 'Yuk!' until she finally manages to strike a deal and design her own dress. From the BBC

The Wind in the Willows has been a firm favourite ever since it was first published back in 1908. This 2-hour long version has been dramatized by Alan Bennett who also stars as the narrator. So, sit back and enjoy some classic adventures with Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad, down by the river bank. 

Grandpa Chatterji has come all the way from India to meet his family. Neetu and Sanjay have never met their grandpa before, and they’re in for a shock – he stands on one leg, makes delicious pakoras, sleeps in a bedroll and can see poppies when no one else can. Read by Sanjeev Bhasker, from the BBC

Cuddly as a cactus and charming as an eel, he’s your new favorite snarky talk show host. Join The Grinch (and his faithful dog Max) each week as he rants against Christmas cheer and roasts celebrity guests like chestnuts on an open fire. Starring Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson as the notorious curmudgeon and broadcasting straight from Who-Ville, will The Grinch send these famous folks back down Mt. Crumpit, or will they soften his stance against Christmas and grow his heart three sizes? Grab your hot cocoa and cozy slippers and listen along to find out!

All little wolf wants to do is stay at home with his mum and dad and baby brother. Instead he is packed off to Cunning College to learn badness from Uncle Big Bad and earn a Bad Badge. But it’s a long way to college and little wolf is all by himself… Written by Ian Whybrow and read by Giles Terera. From the BBC

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium Before babies are born, they've already been enjoying a favourite playlist of soothing soundtracks from the world around them. Then, from the womb to the cot to the bed, those soundtracks will continue to help them soothe and settle when they need it most.   Sound Bubbles are a series of soundscapes created for babies to help them calm down, drift off, and stay asleep. But why should babies get all the Zzzzz's? Kids and even grown-ups can enjoy them too!  From the industrial, to the natural, this collection will grow to include favourite drones from all the sound environments that we humans find soothing.

Join Ubiquitous Springs in this story, set in both the real world and an imaginary place called Headland inside Ubiq’s head. Specially written for the BBC by Michael Lawrence.

A magical story of adventure and discovery from one of the world’s best-loved storytellers – Isabel Allende. Join Fifteen-year-old Alex, his friend Nadia and his eccentric grandmother as they embark on a journey to a mysterious land, high up in the Himalayas, where a statue of a Golden Dragon can foretell the future… The reader is Anne-Marie Duff. From the BBC.

In the second book in the hilarious, action-packed Eddie Dickens trilogy, catch up with Eddie Dickens again, whose family are absolutely bonkers. Eddie and his parents are living with his mad Uncle Jack and mad Aunt Maud. Written by Philip Ardagh, and read by Mark Williams. From the BBC.

Patrick Malahide provides the voice of Roald Dahl in a colourful BBC adaptation by Lucy Catherine of tales from his own childhood. Sometimes magical, sometimes grotesque but always true, Dahl's boyhood stories are as remarkable as the acclaimed fiction he would go on to write as an adult.

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium Guess, create and giggle along with Sound Play – a sound-led radio show for little people with BIG imaginations. Listen carefully to the sounds, and guess along to the audio clues. Where are we today? What's that sound? Playful sounds bring magical worlds to life; where little ears guess and giggle while little hands are free to create their own play adventures.

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium Meditations for calming down busy little minds.

Subscribe now to Kinderling Premium to unlock every episode, ad-free, on your platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more). kinderlingkids.com/premium Enjoy these fun stories by comedian, radio presenter, musician and children's author, Andy Lee! Designed to delight children and adults alike, keep turning the pages and find out what happens when you reach the end, if you dare! Read by: Andy Lee Sound Design: Chris Marsh

Jumbeelia the giant girl believes in Iggly Pops (that’s humans to you and me) and she can’t wait to meet some. But when the Jones family come face to face with her, they are not very happy about it! From the BBC, written by Julia Donaldson and abridged by June Mitchell. The reader is Andrew Dunn.

Brains On presents Forever Ago®, a history show for the whole family! Every episode looks into the surprising and fascinating history of things we think are ordinary, but they’re not -- like ice cream flavors, video games, baths and more. We make learning about the past fun while teaching listeners to think critically about history.

The first book in the hilarious, action-packed Eddie Dickens trilogy from the BBC. When Eddie Dickens’s parents catch a disease that turns them both yellow and makes them smell of hot water bottles, he is sent away to stay with his mad Uncle Jack and equally mad Aunt Maud at their home, Awful End. Written by Philip Ardagh, and read by Read by Mark Williams.