Welcome to the school summer holidays, when families dream of time together being blissful fun. In reality, they often involve long, boring hours where entertainment is hard to get right.
Fear not. Out there in the huge world of audio options, good, kid-friendly podcasts exist that can fill the time brilliantly, spanning current affairs, drama, sport, books, history, music and more. They tend to be less widely promoted than launches for the adult market (perhaps because they’re tougher to monetise, or given advertising restrictions), but this means the best ones are proper labours of love.