Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids
Leela Sivasankar Prickitt, Lyndee Prickitt
Newsy Pooloozi is a weekly, world news podcast for smart kids and curious adults, covering science, animals, space, tech, culture, entertainment, sports… and even politics! The family friendly podcast is presented by a British-Indian-American mother-and-daughter duo, covering the world in a fun and engaging way. Newsy Pooloozi also has kid correspondents from all over the world — Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. The New York Times calls us a "news variety show." We're also on the NYT's Top 30 Podcast For Kids list (under our former name, Newsy Jacuzzi)! We are a proud Kids Listen member too. @newsypooloozi www.newsypooloozi.com
Episodes
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May 25, 2022 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Looking back and forward for 100th episode with special guest, Mindy Thomas!
OMG – we reached 100 episodes! This special episode we look back and forward for our 100th episode with super-duper guest, Mindy Thomas of Wow in the World, helping us celebrate!
May 18, 2022 • 20min
Kid News This Week: NATO woes decoded, UK’s post-drone, microchip in footballs, jail for dumbest thieves
Kid News This Week: Russia furious at NATO’s Nordic expansion while Turkey says no-no, UK’s post-drones take off, possible microchip in Aussie footballs, jail for dumbest thieves
May 11, 2022 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Reptiles at risk, rocket catch-and-carry, lunar art, longest glass-bottom bridge
Kid News This Week: 20% of reptile species risk extinction, rocket booster caught mid-air by helicopter, heartful art heads to the moon and longest glass-bottom bridge opens in Vietnam - all that and more!
May 4, 2022 • 19min
Kid News This Week: Indian heatwave, Mother’s Day backstory, 10-armed octopus, whisky biofuel
Kid News This Week: The Indian subcontinent is in the grip of a heatwave, Mama mia! Mother’s Day sweet history revealed, 10-armed octopus fossil found, whisky waste becomes biofuel and much more!
Apr 27, 2022 • 20min
Kid News This Week: Celebrating Eid, ants repair trees, Japan’s salty chopsticks, Spain’s smelly art
Kid News This Week: Celebrating Eid around the world, Azteca ants repair “trumpetrees” in Panama, Japan’s latest taste-tech, Spain’s smelly high art
Apr 20, 2022 • 24min
Kid News This Week: Earth Day, India’s seaweed machine, UK’s forest eye, eco-bouncy castle
Hear when and why Earth Day started and what we can do now, about India’s seaweed combine-harvester breakthrough, UK’s forest art keeping an “eye on climate” and an ingenious bouncy carbon-buster for kids!
Apr 13, 2022 • 20min
Kid News This Week: Easter lowdown, digitally unwrapped mummy, swimming dinos, rickshaw garden
Kid News This Week: Hear the lowdown on Easter, all about the digitally unwrapped mummy, the swimming Spinosaurus, rickshaw's rooftop garden, the stuck temple thief and more!
Apr 6, 2022 • 21min
Kid News This Week: Saturn loses its rings, who is Ketanji, Finnish treasure hunters, Spain's ghost village
Kid News This Week: Saturn loses its rings - but how, low-down on Ketanji B Jackson, Finnish treasure hunters get ready for last push to booty and Spain's abandoned village appears in dried-up lake - all that and more.
Mar 30, 2022 • 9min
Kids News This Week: Five wacky world news stories - one that will fool you
Kids News This Week: Take our April Fool's challenge - hear five wacky, world news stories and guess which one is April Foolin' you!
Mar 23, 2022 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Sahara Desert dust storm, lost Amazon boys, UK solar tunnel, otter escort
Kid News This Week: Sahara dust storm darkens Spain, Ukraine’s “wonder woman,” boys lost in Amazon found, UK solar tunnel, special escort for otters - all that and more on this week's world news pod for kids!
