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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Oct 26, 2022 • 26min
Autumn Festivals: Hungry Ghost, Day of the Dead, Diwali, Guy Fawkes and more!
Kids News This Week: Autum is a season full of festivals from the scary to the sweet - this autumn festival capsule has the story behind most of them. From Halloween in the US to Asia's Hungry Ghost Festival and Mexico's Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Never mind the Indian festivals, including Diwali for Hindus and Guru Nanak, the biggest festival for the Sikhs. Oh, and did we mention the British Guy Fawkes festival, also called Bonfire Night? Have a listen to get into the festive mood!
Oct 19, 2022 • 13min
Kids News This Week: Mushrooms "talk," dancing powers a nightclub, new tennis era, dog cafe
Kids News This Week: Did you know mushrooms "chat" to each other? Or that dancing can be used to power a Scottish nightclub? Hear all about it, plus a new era in tennis as sporting greats go from the court and a San Francisco cafe dishes up a posh dog's dinner for the city's many pups -- all this week on the only world news podcast for curious kids and adults!
Oct 12, 2022 • 19min
Kid News This Week: Nobel Prizes explained, Iran’s protests, “plastic piranha,” India’s temple crocodile
Kid News This Week: We dive into the Nobel Prizes and what the “merchant of death” has to do with it?! We also tackle the story of the protests in Iran and explain why they are so important. Plus, California’s “plastic piranha” is unleased and India’s “mystic” temple crocodile dies. All that and more this week on the only world news podcast for curious kids and adults!
Oct 5, 2022 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Stink bug & spider crab invasion, electric scrap car, candy news, dogs smell stress
Kid News This Week: It’s the “invasion” of stink bugs in the US & spider crabs in France, India’s electric car built from scrap, M&M and Quality Street candy news, plus dogs detect stress with their noses – all that and more this week!Thanks also to Roa Music for supplying the backtrack to the Kids Listen promo.
Sep 28, 2022 • 16min
Kid News This Week: Festive India, NASA crashes asteroid, fish name-change, TikTok trouble, ukulele flight
Kid News This Week: Festive season in India is underway with Ganpati, Navratri and Dussehra festivals, NASA crashes asteroid, carp changes its name to tempt people in the US to eat the fish, in the UK TikTok might get fined and passengers on a flight to Hawaii get a ukulele treat!
Sep 21, 2022 • 17min
Kid News This Week: NASA’s rocket, Queen’s funeral, Harry Potter coin, deep-sea blue goo, running doc
Kid News This Week: NASA’s Artemis-1 moon rocket set to try launching again, Queen Elizabeth II’s epic funeral, UK Royal Mint releases Harry Potter coins, India’s running doctor defies traffic and deep-sea blue goo mystifies scientists in the Caribbean, plus the world wrap of news and the fab fact quiz!
Sep 14, 2022 • 20min
Kid News This Week: UK mourns queen, chimps drum, Taylor’s album, new “sus” dictionary words
Kid News This Week: UK mourns death of Queen Elizabeth II, chimps drum-talk, Taylor Swift announces album release date, California’s electric call-to-action and new “sus” words added to Merriam Webster dictionary, plus the world wrap and fab facts quiz this week on the coolest pool of news for curious kids and adults!
Sep 7, 2022 • 15min
Kid News This Week: Oysters to the rescue, spiders dream, Dubai’s deepest pool, weird UK ice cream
Kid News This Week: Oyster reefs fight land erosion in Bangladesh, scientist discovers spiders dream in their sleep, the world’s deepest pool in Dubai, weird British ice cream flavors from Heinz Baked Beans to Soy Sauce!
Aug 31, 2022 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Floods & droughts, treasures revealed, power of sleep & sweat, wearables for pets
Kid News This Week: From Texas to Pakistan floods create havoc, so do droughts but there is a silver lining as evaporating lakes and rivers are revealing long lost treasures, create global havoc but reveal treasures too, studies show the power of sleep, biofilm strip shows how sweat can recharge wearables and, speaking of… wearable fans keep pets cool! All that plus the world wrap and fab facts this week on the coolest pool of news for curious kids and adults!
Aug 24, 2022 • 16min
Kid News This Week: China’s rain seeds, Japan’s goat-bot, water from asteroids, sea-sponge snot
Kid News This Week: China seeds rain to save autumn harvest and world food crisis, Japan builds a robot goat, space mission suggests Earth’s water came from asteroids and sea sponges sneeze snot and give shrimp a booger feast – plus the world wrap and fab facts!
