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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jude Rogers

Holiday listening: the 20 best podcasts for kids and teens

An elephant and some butterflies; the young hosts of Girls Make Beats; Ella Toone and Alessia Russo; Greg James; the dog character Duggee.
Clockwise from top left: Audiomoves at the Zoo; Girls Make Beats; The Tooney & Russo show; Greg James; Hey Duggee. Composite: BBC, Simon Lipman/The Observer, Getty, Alamy

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.

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