Uncle Chris is in a right pickle…his undercover detective work hasn’t gone to plan and the King's guards are trying to take him and his community theatre company to the Tower of London!

‘The guards are chasing us through the streets of London on horseback!’

On the run, they still have to find the facts about bonfire night for Connie. Risking everything they sneak into the houses of parliament to find out more! Will they be caught? Will they end up in the dungeon, or worse, tortured on the rack?!

Join us in 1605 once again Adventurers for the thrilling conclusion of ‘A Gunpowder, Treason and Plot Adventure!’ 🎇🎆

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Credits

Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and HannahDonelon.

Generously funded by the Arts Council of England.

Our next episode will be out Thursday 21st November! 😀

Mentioned in this episode:

Dorktales

Be the hero of your own story with Dorktales Storytime, the award-winning podcast for kids and their pop culture loving grownups. Enter their Once Upon a Time world where hosts, Jonathan Cormur and Mr. Reginald T. Hedgehog, take you on a journey of curiosity and acceptance. You’ll explore reimagined fairytales and fables with social emotional themes, discover inspiring stories of history’s hidden heroes, and experience imaginary tales of boundless possibilities.

Connie needs some help explaining bonfire night to some guests she has staying and asks Uncle Chris if he can help!

Not sure of the facts themselves, Uncle Chris and his trusty community theatre company decide to go back to 1605 and find out the facts as they happened! But it was a very dangerous time, full of plots to kill King James I, so they decide to go undercover as detectives…

‘There’s only one thing for it we will have to go undercover, like secret detectives from a Cop show!’ 👮🚨

Join us as we travel back in time to Jacobean London, for Guard chases, undercover policing and a lot of gunpowder treason and plot! 💂👑

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Credits

Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and Hannah Donelon.

Generously funded by the Arts Council of England.

Our next episode will be out Thursday 31st October! 😀

Mentioned in this episode:

Dorktales Storytime

Be the hero of your own story with Dorktales Storytime, the award-winning podcast for kids and their pop culture loving grownups. Enter their Once Upon a Time world where hosts, Jonathan Cormur and Mr. Reginald T. Hedgehog, take you on a journey of curiosity and acceptance. You’ll explore reimagined fairytales and fables with social emotional themes, discover inspiring stories of history’s hidden heroes, and experience imaginary tales of boundless possibilities. Recognized by Common Sense Media as outstanding entertainment with an official seal for quality and impact. Common Sense Selections include age-appropriate media with the potential to spark family conversations, entertain families of all kinds, and have a positive, lasting effect on society. Selected by Apple Podcasts for being the best of the best in the Kids & Family category. We are consistently selected for curated lists and featured collections.

Connie and the gang blast off into space for an adventure to the moon! Connie initially hesitates, worried about being so far from home. However, she joins the crew just in time

for the rocket launch! 🚀

Along the way, the adventurers experience zero gravity, dodge space debris, and even encounter friendly aliens! After a small navigational hiccup, the crew manages to steer back on course and successfully land on the moon. There, they plant the Armchair Adventures flag, explore the lunar surface, and marvel at the beauty of outer space. 🌕

Will they get home safely? You’ll have to listen to find out!

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Credits

Armchair Adventures is a Made by Mortals production. With special thanks to Blueprint Studios and HannahDonelon.

Generously funded by the Arts Council of England.

Our next episode will be out Thursday 17th November! 😀

Season 5 is

back with a bang, as Connie and the gang blast off into space!

Connie and her

team of adventurers are off on an exciting journey to the moon, led by Hazel—a

former soldier and all-round adventure seeker. Along the way, Connie faces her

own fears about going away on a camping trip without her mum.

From sneaking

into NASA, prepping a retired rocket and training like astronauts, this episode

is filled with imaginative join-in fun!

Will Connie

realise she's braver than she thinks? And most importantly, has she packed

enough biscuits for the flight?! 🍪 Tune in to find out adventurers!

Join Connie and the gang at the Armchair Adventures Travel Agency as they kick off Season 5 with a bang! ✨

The agency is celebrating with a fireworks display, and they're inviting all adventurers to join in on the fun. This season promises to be packed with super fun join-in adventures led by Connie, Uncle Chris, and all her lovely customers

From a thrilling theme park escapade to blasting off into the cosmos, it's going to be an unforgettable ride! 🚀

Adventures to look forward to:

• A thrilling theme park experience.🎡
• An imaginative journey sparking ideas for climate action.🌍
• A space adventure that blasts off into the cosmos.🧑‍🚀
• A deep dive into the world of William Shakespeare.🎭
• A special Christmas episode.🎅
• A historical adventure about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot.🎆

Make sure to follow and subscribe so you don't miss any of the action-packed episodes in Season 5! ✅

Deep underground, Connie and her customers learn the Oil monster is friendly after all, and how using fossil fuels for her new prom dress damages the environment.

Connie decides that reusing her mums 1980s dress is the best way forward …the thing is, it’s still not her style…at all…

👗🧵🛢

‘It’s important for me to wear my mum’s prom dress…even though it really, really, really doesn’t suit me…’

Amy (The fabulously sustainable fashion designer) comes to the rescue with a complete redesign using the same fabric!

Join the adventure and play games at the Oil monsters birthday bash, plant some trees with our forest friends and get yourself on the fashion runway!

It’s time to strut your stuff in part 2 of ‘A Super Sustainable Fashion Adventure!’

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Credits

Produced by Made By Mortals

Actors - Hannah Donelon and Paul Hine

Writer – Chris Brett

Music - AJS Music

Sound Design - Blueprint Studios

Special guest – Amy Powney

This episode was funded through the Energy Saving Trust Foundation’s Youth Climate Action Fund. With extra special thanks to our guest adventurer Amy Powney

Our next episode will be out Thursday 1st August 2024! 😀

Connie’s lovely customer Pat wants to go on an adventure to learn what her clothes are made of and how she can shop more sustainably…

👗🧵🐑

‘I’d love to know how I can help the planet whilst still looking good!’

Meanwhile, Connie is worrying she will have to wear her Mum’s 1980’s prom dress if she doesn’t order one off the internet in time! The trouble is, Connie doesn’t really understand what the new one is made of…

Getting the rest of the customers on the line they travel to Fashion designer Amy Powney’s Super Sustainable Fashion Studio to find out more!

When her wardrobe becomes a rocket, they blast off to have a beauty treatment with some sheep and float away on giant clouds made of cotton…But when they venture deep underground to learn where manmade fabrics come from… they are attacked by an oil monster!

Will they survive their encounter with this fossil fuelled terror? Join us to find out Adventurers!

Say hello adventurer!

Website: armchair-adventures.co.uk

Facebook: @armchairadventuresuk

Instagram: @armchairadventuresuk

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You can download the transcript for the episode here.

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Credits

Produced by Made By Mortals

Actors - Hannah Donelon and Paul Hine

Writer – Chris Brett

Music - AJS Music

Sound Design - Blueprint Studios

Special guest – Amy Powney

This episode was funded through the Energy Saving Trust Foundation’s Youth Climate Action Fund. With extra special thanks to our guest adventurer Amy Powney

Our next episode will be out Thursday 18th of July! 😀

*NEWS FLASH*

This just in…Connie needs some help understanding research for a school project, so she asks her trusty Uncle Chris and her lovely customers if they know anyone who could help her out!

‘Wow, it’s like the Batcave…Look at all the robots and machines.’

🦖🕵🏻🤖

Uncle Chris gets in touch with his good friend Dr Rachel, dons his news reporter character and adventures to her super-secret research base!

Once inside, they learn about ‘THE FIVE STEPS OF RESEARCH’

Finding out what makes a successful project, how important planning is and they even take a trip back in time to meet some T-REX! But watch your step adventurers…you don’t want to step in any dino dung!

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Credits

Produced by Made By Mortals

Actors - Chris Brett and Hannah Donelon

Writer – Chris Brett

Music - AJS Music

Sound Design - Blueprint Studios

Special guest – Dr Rachel Isba

Funded by The ICS Research Engagement Network development programme. Produced in collaboration with Lancaster Medical School, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and the Council for Disabled Children (part of the National Children’s Bureau). With special thanks to Rachel Isba.

The views expressed in this episode are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of NHS England or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Our next episode will be out Thursday 4th of July! 😀

Connie’s running out of time to write a play on the roman invasion of Britain for her drama class, so she asks Uncle Chris and his community theatre company to lend her a hand!

‘Silence! You’re forgetting one thing everyone…I am no longer Uncle Chris…I am the emperor of Rome, and emperors do whatever they like!’

🏛️🏆🐎

Styling himself as the new emperor of Rome, Uncle chris takes us to a giant amphitheatre, where he pits the Roman Empire against ancient Britain to gather up the facts for Connie.

Here we see Boudicca queen of the Iceni tribe take on Emperor Claudius of Rome in a few rather silly challenges to impress Emperor Uncle Chris! But who will emerge victorious! And will everybody stay in one piece? Join us on our adventure to find out!

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Credits

Produced by- Made By Mortals

Actors – Chris Brett, Hannah Donelon, Catherine Cowdry and Paul Hine

Writer- Chris Brett

Music- AJS Music

Sound design- Blueprint Studios

Funded by- The Arts Council England.

Our next episode will be out Thursday 20th of June! 😀

Connie and her customers have been asked to step in to perform for the UK in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – but they don’t have a song, costumes, a dance routine, or anything, yet!

“I really don’t want nil points!!”

“Nobody wants nil points!”

🎤✨🌍

There’s no time to waste! Connie and her customers hop back on the magical tour bus to travel across Europe, on a mission to gather everything they need to make their act special and bring the audience together.

“Let’s build a chain across the world…

Let’s bring together every boy and girl.”

Will Connie pick up all the tips she needs from other country’s Eurovision winners? How will she get on at the Song Contest? And will she receive the top mark - douze points?!

Join us on our journey of the imagination to help make Connie’s contest-winning performance!

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Credits

Produced by Made By Mortals

Actors - Hannah Donelon, Chris Brett, Francesca Waite, Catherine Cowdrey and Paul Hine

Writer – Francesca Waite

Music - AJS Music

Sound Design - Blueprint Studios

Funded by the Arts Council of England.

Our next episode will be out Thursday 30th of May! 😀

Connie wants to help bring her squabbling school year group back together by preparing the most fantastic performance that will make the School’s Spring Song Contest an enormous success!

“Good Evening Everybody! Let the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 commence!”

🎤✨🌍

Luckily, her Uncle Chris and troupe of trusty customers are super fans of The Eurovision Song Contest, the world’s biggest music competition, so know exactly how to help. Together, they set off to European countries in a magical tour bus to pick up hot hints of how to help make their performance a hit with her school friends and bring everybody back together again.

Come and help Connie and her customers get this show on the road and score top marks at the contest!

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Facebook: @armchairadventuresuk

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Credits

Produced by Made ByMortals

Actors - Hannah Donelon, Chris Brett, Francesca Waite, Catherine Cowdrey and Paul Hine

Writer – Francesca Waite

Music - AJS Music

Sound Design - Blueprint Studios

Funded by the Arts Council of England.

Our next episode will be out Thursday 16th of May! 😀