Every Friday, join Ruby for News Time as she counts down the week’s most interesting news stories for kids. From amazing animals to special events, the natural world to outer space, News Time is made especially for children to help them understand the world around them.
Episode One: World Space WeekCreated by: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Started: October 9th, 2020
Status: Active, 202 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
<a href="https://soundcarrot.com/shows/shows/abc-kids-news-time/" title="SoundCarrot.com - Children's podcasts"><img src="https://soundcarrot.com/img/sc-sm.png" alt="Listen On SoundCarrot" style="width: 200px; height: auto" /></a>While we warm up the News Time machine for 2026, we’ve been looking back at some favourite stories from 2025. This News Time episode is all about amazing animals.
As we begin a brand new year, our intrepid host Ruby takes a look back at her favourite stories of 2025.
It’s getting very close to the end of the year, so we’re looking back at five of our favourite good news stories from 2025.
If you’ve listened to News Time before, you’ll know that we end each week’s countdown with our Wow of the Week.
On this week’s News Time, we’ll head to the desert to dig up a haul of significant artefacts. Then, we’ll hear from a News Time listener with a truly life-saving message.
On this week’s News Time, we’ll play a game that’s saving a language from extinction, and we’ll journey deep into the jungle searching for something that humans haven’t seen for ten years! Then, we’ll blast off into space with some very green passengers in our Wow of the Week.
Nas Campanella, the ABC’s National Disability Affairs Reporter, is picking up the News Time microphone this week for International Day of People with Disability.
On this week’s News Time, you’ll hear about a family who’s received a message from 100 years in the past, and we’ll go on a quest to identify a mysterious animal prowling around a forest. Then we’ll put on our dancing shoes for a very wild Wow of the Week!
Created by: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Started:
October 9th, 2020
Status: Active, 202 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
When Chloe is sent off to live with her mysterious and eccentric grandmother she learns an unbelievable secret. Grandma Ivy is none other than Mother Nature herself! And Chloe is next in line to assume to the power and responsibility of the job. Can a twelve-year old learn to balance the entire world’s ecosystem while just trying to fit in at her new school? Only Mother Nature knows.
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