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Roald Dahl - Your Shortcut... From the Vault Sep 12, 2026

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Celebrate Roald Dahl Day with a scrumdiddlyumptious trip into the Squiz Kids Vault.

Roald Dahl gave us chocolate factories, giant peaches, marvellous medicines and some of the nastiest grown-ups ever committed to paper. But did you know he was also a fighter pilot, a spy and a schoolboy chocolate tester?

In this Shortcut, we explore the real-life experiences that inspired Dahl’s much-loved stories, discover why children adore his revolting characters and phizz-whizzing invented words, and pick up some tricks for creating wonderfully Dahl-esque characters and stories of our own.

Links: ⁠⁠A toxicological analysis of George's Marvellous Medicine - The British Medical Journal.⁠⁠

⁠⁠Listen and describe, and create your own character task. ⁠⁠

⁠⁠Create your own Marvellous Medicine!⁠

How, or where, does wind start? Science Short Sep 11, 2026

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Where does wind begin?

It can mess up your hair, slam doors shut and send umbrellas tumbling down the street, but what gets all that invisible air moving? Inspired by an excellent question from Judah in Wollongong, Christie discovers how the Sun and differences in air pressure create everything from refreshing sea breezes to wild gusts. Plus, why buildings can create wind tunnels... and the special weather ingredients needed to form cyclones and tornadoes.

Do you have a science question you'd like Christie to investigate? Email it to us at squizkids@thesquiz.com.au, and you might hear your answer on an upcoming episode.

Kids vs Adults Weekly News S'Quiz Sep 10, 2026

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A fun kids vs adults news quiz to test who’s been paying the most attention to the week in news.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Digital devices out of classrooms?; and France’s famous painting heist Sep 09, 2026

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Your daily kids news podcast.

Digital devices out of classrooms?; France’s famous painting heist; Bird flu conspiracy debunked; and bandicoots and bilbies bounce back.

Could laptops and tablets be making it harder to concentrate? A major international study found Aussie students report more digital distractions than the global average.

It sounds like a movie plot! Thieves broke into France’s Renoir Museum and grabbed four paintings before police arrived, forcing them to flee.

Bilbies, bandicoots, bettongs and quolls are making a comeback inside enormous fenced areas designed to keep feral cats and other pests out.

Wild conspiracy theories about bird flu are spreading online, making Squiz-E’s nose twitch overtime.

Shortcut to Invasive Species: https://www.squizkids.com.au/squiz-kids-shortcuts/invasive-species/

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched and hosted by Bryce Corbett

Footy gets a theme park, and the Pope farms aura. Sep 08, 2026

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Your daily kids news podcast.

Footy gets a theme park; Rwanda’s school-meal mission; Australia’s wild house guests; and the Pope farms aura.

NRL fans could soon step inside the game at a new Sydney attraction packed with augmented reality, coaching clinics, video games and giant match parties.

Rwanda wants to put even more healthy, locally grown food onto school lunch plates.

Possums in roofs, bats in curtains and an echidna rearranging the pantry! Aussie wildlife is increasingly turning up inside homes as natural habitats disappear.

Is the Pope farming aura? Pope Leo tried out some viral slang during a Vatican family celebration.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched and hosted by Christie Kijurina

The Macfarlane Brothers - Filmmakers and Content Creators - Squiz Kids Spotlight... Sep 07, 2026

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From lost socks to millions of followers, the Macfarlane brothers know where a homemade movie can lead.

Filmmakers and content creators Lachlan and Austin Macfarlane join Bryce under the Squiz Kids Spotlight to talk about making movies as kids, building an audience of millions and the hard work behind their wildly creative videos.

Their best advice for young creators? Don’t wait! Just start making stuff.

Plus, find out how budding filmmakers aged 15 and under can enter this year’s Trop Jr short-film competition. If you’ve got a movie idea bubbling away, now’s the time to grab a phone, tablet or camera and bring it to life for Trop Jr.

To enter, you’ll need to be aged 15 or under and create a short film of no more than five minutes featuring this year’s special signature item: a map. It could lead to buried treasure, point the way to another dimension, or simply appear somewhere in the background. It’s entirely up to you.

The deadline for entries has been extended to October 23, so get cracking!

⁠https://www.tropfest.com/tropjr⁠

Macfarlane Bros: When you give a kid unrestricted internet access

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OjoWAiFqY⁠

New world map unveiled, and the Star Wars museum of storytelling Sep 06, 2026

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Your daily kids news podcast.

New world map unveiled; Korea’s robot theme park; the Star Wars museum of storytelling; and soiled undies and kissing bears win science prize.

The familiar world map set to get a serious resize!

K-pop dancers, pianists and kickboxers... South Korea’s new theme park has robots doing the entertaining.

Buried undies, kissing polar bears and stolen baby lollies. Welcome to the wonderfully weird Ig Nobel Awards!

Star Wars creator George Lucas has turned his love of storytelling into a spectacular new museum in Los Angeles.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched and hosted by Bryce Corbett.

Trop Jr: Short Film Competition for kids https://www.tropfest.com/tropjr

Macfarlane Bros: When you give a kid unrestricted internet access https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OjoWAiFqY

Dads - On Fathers' Day... Your Shortcut - From the Vault Sep 05, 2026

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In this Squiz Kids Shortcut for Fathers' Day, Christie and Bryce explore the wild world of animal dads. From devoted emperor penguins and pregnant seahorses to fathers whose parenting methods are a little more questionable.

They also travel through history to discover how the role of dads has changed and meet the many different people who can do the dadding in our lives.

So grab your dad, stepdad, grandad or another special father figure and listen together.

There’s a S’Quiz at the end!

How do 3D Printers work? Science Shorts Sep 04, 2026

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Eight-year-old Ethan from Casula in Sydney wants to know how 3D printers work. Christie discovers how computer designs are sliced into thousands of incredibly thin layers, then built into real objects using everything from melted plastic and powdered metal to concrete and chocolate.

Along the way, we find out how 3D printing could help astronauts, hospitals and people living in remote communities.

Do you have a science question you'd like Christie to answer? Send it in to squizkids@thesquiz.com.au, and you might hear your answer in an upcoming episode.

Kids vs Adults Weekly News S'Quiz Sep 03, 2026

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A fun kids vs adults news quiz to test who’s been paying the most attention to the week in news.

For the full episode transcript, click here.