Episodes
Join Connie and her lovely customers as they adventure to THE MOST exciting, amazing, magical theme park filled with thrills, imagination, and surprises! The journey kicks off with special guest Linda, who suggests taking everyone on to a theme park to cheer everyone up, especially Connie, who's feeling a bit anxious about reconnecting with an old friend. 🎡🎢🎠 ‘We’re so excited. We’re going to ride on literally everything.’ There's fantastical rides, including spinning carousels that send them...
Published 11/21/24
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...
Published 11/04/24
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!’...
Published 10/17/24
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...
Published 10/03/24
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?...
Published 09/19/24
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...
Published 09/04/24
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...
Published 07/18/24
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...
Published 07/04/24
*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...
Published 06/20/24
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...
Published 06/06/24
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...
Published 05/16/24
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...
Published 05/02/24
Uncle Chris and his community theatre company are on the run from some vicious guards in Elizabethan England! ‘What on earth do you think you’re doing here? How dare you interrupt my play…’ 👑⚔🪶 In their quest to find out the facts about Shakespeare for Connie, and the queens guards hot on their heels, the gang crash head first into a performance of one of his plays…and come face to face with Queen Elizabeth the 1st! Will she cut off their heads? Or will they get a chance to change her mind?...
Published 04/18/24
Connie needs help with her Shakespeare essay, so she asks Uncle Chris and his community theatre company to lend her a hand! ‘It feels quite royal in here, almost like we are at the Tudor court…’ 🫅📜✨ A bit rusty on their Shakespearean knowledge, Uncle Chris takes his theatre company back in time to Tudor, England, to gather the facts as they happen. But when he accidentally offends Queen Elizabeth the 1st, the gang must run from her guards - who are trying to cut off their heads! Come with us...
Published 04/04/24
Welcome to the prestigious Armchair Adventures Grammy Awards, or AAGA's for short, where Uncle Chris picks out his favourite musical moments from the episodes so far! 🎶🏆👩‍🎤 "First up is the AAGA for 'Best Use Of A Musical Instrument To Represent An Animal!" 🐦🎵 While Connie makes her way back from Mrs Maestro's 'Musical Extravaganza Adventure', she's asked her Uncle Chris to pick out his favourite musical moments from previous Armchair Adventures Episodes. Listen now to find out who will come...
Published 03/21/24
“Strap yourself in, everybody; this last bit of the journey will be quite the ride.” 🚌🎻🎵 In the third part of this musical trio, Mrs Maestro’s rickety old bus has to go through some tricky and slightly bonkers terrain, including a long dark tunnel, a sticky and slimy swamp, and a wiggly windy road. With the whole orchestra safely onboard the bus, this final leg of the journey does some very peculiar things to the music. And after all a very important member of the orchestra doesn’t turn up as...
Published 03/07/24
The next stop is the string family from the ice cream parlour! Mrs Maestro's journey to get the musicians in the orchestra to the super-duper concert on time continues. Mrs Maestro gets confused when it's time to pay for all those delicious ice creams, and Connie and her customers come to her aid. 🚌🎻🍦 “Don’t worry Mrs Maestro, let’s do it together. We’ll help you. Isn’t that right gang?” The next pickup is the brass family from the Great Grand Palace- a royal but somewhat overwhelming...
Published 02/22/24
Meet Mrs Maestro- a local bus company owner and music super-fan. Join her, Connie, and Connie’s customers en route to pick up the musicians in an orchestra and get them to the super-duper concert on time. 🚌🎻🎼 “We love music. It sets our imaginations wild and free”. In this episode (the first of three musical specials), Mrs Maestro’s ancient steam-powered patented route planner blows up, and she is forced to try to remember her route and the order of her pickups. Poor Mrs Maestro’s memory is...
Published 02/08/24
Welcome back to Part 2 of our 'Girl Power Scrapbook Adventure', where Connie and her customers learn more about local inspirational women and their positive affirmations. "‘Walk in my shoes, run in my wake" 🏃‍♀✨💪🏽 Connie and her customers are stuck in cyberspace!! But Connie has been asked by the Mayor to sing at a special event, celebrating local inspirational women. How will she make it to the stage in time? Maybe the girl power magic stored in the collected affirmations will help them...
Published 01/18/24
"Girls are strong, and girls are clever, look out world 'cos here we come!" 🦸‍♀️📕💖 Connie is asked to sing at the local mayor's inspirational women's event but needs a little self-belief. So, her lovely customers take her on an adventure inside Ada's Girl Power scrapbook! All the amazing women come to life in the scrapbook pictures and teach Connie and the gang how important it is to celebrate women and their achievements. Girls can do anything! 💪 We meet Ada Summers, the first justice of the...
Published 01/04/24
Uncle Chris is hosting Christmas this year, so he and his community theatre company set out to make it the best Christmas day EVER! "For the tastiest, tinselliest Christmas, Uncle Chris. You need Brussel sprouts!" 🎄🎅❄️ Disaster has struck at Connie's house! The oven has broken, and it's days before Christmas! How will they make Christmas dinner? 🍗 Uncle Chris to the rescue! Uncle Chris usually watches box sets on Christmas day; he has no idea how to host! He decides to enlist the help of his...
Published 12/21/23
Connie decides to create a hit Christmas single with the help of the adventurers and special guest Ian from Blueprint Studios! “There's nothing like a festive song to lift your Christmas spirits! ”   🎄🎅✨ In this festive episode of Armchair Adventures, Connie is getting musical. Extra special guests join the gang: Andy, a musical maestro, and Ian, a producer at Blueprint Studios! 🎶 Together, they set out to make a hit Christmas single! But a storm threatens to snow them in, so they only have 1...
Published 12/07/23
Hey Adventurers, we have some very exciting news for you....Connie and the gang have been in a super cool music studio to record their very own Christmas single....and you can listen to it right now!! 🎄🎶🎅🏻 The smash hit features Connie, her customers and adventurers and even a special guest appearance from the big man himself....FATHER CHRISTMAS! Let us know what you think of our new song 'It's Christmas Time' by leaving us a review adventurer. The full episode is out on 7th...
Published 11/30/23
Connie and her customers are in the vibrant land of Gujarat, India, where Connie and her fellow adventurers are immersed in the festivities of a traditional Hindu wedding! “Traditions give the next generation an understanding of their cultural background.”   👳🏽✨❤ In part 2, Connie is still in Gujarat and super nervous about being a bridesmaid! Dipak Dristi, a social group for older people of South Asian heritage and extra special guest adventurers, help take her mind off things with an...
Published 11/16/23