
Short & Curly
A fast-paced fun-filled ethics podcast for kids and their parents that asks those curly questions. From banning lollies to trusting robots, and from colonising other planets to eating pets, Short & Curly covers it all.
Latest episodes

Dec 12, 2017 • 27min
How to make the best kind of friends
Making friends and keeping friends can be hard. Sometimes you like someone a lot and then one of you changes and your friendship ends.

Dec 5, 2017 • 3min
INTRODUCING — Short & Curly Goes To America
While Molly stays at home to fight crime and breed endangered lizards, Carl packs his toothbrush and some clean underwear for Short & Curly’s big adventure to New York City.

Sep 13, 2017 • 27min
Should we kill feral cats?
Australia is on the war path, pledging to kill two million feral cats by 2020. They felines are biologically the same creatures as the kitties people have as pets at home, but most were born in the wild.

Sep 13, 2017 • 23min
Is your classroom fair?
That’s not fair! How often have you heard that said at school?

Sep 13, 2017 • 23min
Would you donate your kidney to a stranger?
They cut a small hole in your abdomen, blow some carbon dioxide into your tummy so it puffs up like a balloon, then carefully take out a perfectly healthy part of your body. Yikes.

Sep 13, 2017 • 25min
Can robot soldiers make armies better?
Is it possible for an army to do the right thing? After all, armies destroy buildings and neighbourhoods, they kill and severely injure people, including children.

Sep 13, 2017 • 26min
What would you risk to get to the top?
Take a cold and windy journey with Molly and Carl as they gather their ropes and ice picks, lace up their climbing boots and head out into the wild for some high altitude curly questions.

Dec 20, 2016 • 24min
Should pugs exist?
Carl thinks they have the cutest squashiest faces and biggest googley eyes of the entire canine world. He definitely wants to buy one.

Dec 20, 2016 • 23min
Who wants a virtual life?
Let’s say you can hook your brain up to a machine which feels 100 per cent real and offers you the kind of life you’ve always wanted. The catch is, this perfect world isn’t real.

Dec 20, 2016 • 21min
Why can’t children vote?
Kids have to live by the rules of the society they are born into but don’t get a say on what those rules are. Unfair, right?