🎧 It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge! Welcome to Unpacked – the brand-new spin-off show from Armchair Adventures, made for your listening (and joining-in!) pleasure. 🎙️Hosted by Connie’s Uncle Chris – drama teacher, actor extraordinaire and mischief-maker – and his cheeky soundboard sidekick Ziggy, each episode of Unpacked takes you back to a past adventure through silly games, quick-fire quizzes and proper-hard questions! 🧵This time, we’re cat walking our way through… The S...
Jul 03, 2025•24 min•Season 5Ep. 21
In this episode of UNPACKED , we’re getting arty and environmentally friendly in preparation to compete to win absolutely nothing when we revisit to the ‘A Magical Mural Adventure’ from Season 5. ♻️ 🏞️ It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge once again, with a brand spanking new episode of UNPACKED ! The join in quiz show spin-off from Armchair Adventures! Our host, Connie's Uncle Chris, and his cheeky soundboard Ziggy will challenge adventurers at home and in the studio to ‘Unpack...
Jun 19, 2025•24 min•Season 5Ep. 40
Welcome back to part 2 of 'A Magical Mural Adventure!' Whilst on their journey inside the magical mural, Connie and her lovely customers have helped rescue a rocket-speed turtle called Turbo 🐢 from a plastic disaster and are now they are trying to help a mother polar bear 🐻❄️ reunite with her cub, who is floating away on a piece of melting sea ice! “I’ve got it! Let’s reuse the plastic we collected to make oars. There are so many of us, we will row this ice along in no time!” And they still h...
Jun 05, 2025•22 min•Season 5Ep. 39
Connie’s decorating the art party at school and our lovely customer Pauline is looking for some creative inspiration! Seeing that Connie’s ordering a lot of single-use plastic for the event, Pauline takes them on an Armchair Adventure to Plastic Shed to learn more about plastic waste while they get a bit arty! ♻️🎨 “There is this amazing arts organisation called Plastic Shed I’d like to visit. It’s run by an artist called Caitlin, and shemakes art using recycled plastic.” When they arrive, they ...
May 22, 2025•19 min•Season 5Ep. 38
It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge once again, with a brand spanking new episode of UNPACKED, t he join in quiz show spin-off from Armchair Adventures! Our host, Connie's Uncle Chris 🧔🏻♂️ and his cheeky soundboard Ziggy 🔈will challenge adventurers at home and in the studio to ‘Unpack’ an Armchair Adventure through a series of silly games like ‘human sound effects’ and super tough adventure quiz questions! 🙋🏾♀️ ‘I’ve picked some super scientific words from the Record-Brea...
May 08, 2025•27 min•Season 5Ep. 37
Whilst on their journey inside the human body Connie, Uncle Chris and her lovely customers have been caught by the immune system and taken to the lymph node for investigation! 🩻 ‘It looks like we’ve arrived everyone…this lymph node really does look like a jail…’ Once they are scanned by some strange little t-cells, Connie gets involved in making anti bodies with the body’s defence system - the B-cells! 🪖 Running out of time to escape the body before they grow to full size again, Connie and her...
Apr 24, 2025•16 min•Season 5Ep. 36
Uncle Chris needs Connie's help to break a world record, but she needs to study for a test on vaccinations! 🌎🥇 "No, stop everyone! No record-breaking burps! I’m really sorry Uncle Chris, but I’ve just been trying to tell you I can’t break a record today!" To try and do both, Connie and her customers go on a journey of the imagination to Dr Rachel’s super-secret lab to learn all about vaccines and how they work inside our bodies. 💉🩻 But while in the lab, Uncle Chris shrinks down by accident a...
Apr 10, 2025•22 min•Season 5Ep. 35
It’s time to test your Armchair Adventures knowledge once again, with a brand spanking new episode of UNPACKED ! The join in quiz show spin-off from Armchair Adventures! Our host, Connie's Uncle Chris, and his cheeky soundboard Ziggy will challenge adventurers at home and in the studio to ‘Unpack’ an Armchair Adventure through a series of silly games like ‘human sound effects’ and super tough adventure quiz questions! 🧳 "Teams will have one minute to answer as many questions relating to the ‘A ...
Mar 27, 2025•23 min•Season 5Ep. 34
Connie and Uncle Chris and his community theatre company are exploring the world of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to find out more about the themes of the mischievous play. 🎭 But they seem to have landed right in the middle of a squabble between two best friends and Puck receiving a telling off from his Master, Oberon! 🧚♂️ Will everybody be friends again and everything put right, so that the adventurers can attend the lovers’ weddings and witness a happy ending to the play? ...
Mar 13, 2025•13 min•Season 5Ep. 33
Connie has to make a last minute presentation at school on the themes of Shakespeare’s magical and mischievous play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , and she has no idea where to start! Luckily, her Uncle Chris and the community theatre company are experts on Shakespeare, so they decide to go on an Armchair Adventure into the world of the play to find out more. 🎭 There, they’re met by characters from the play, including Puck and their fairy friends🧚 🧚including King and Queen of the fairies, Oberon...
Feb 27, 2025•21 min•Season 5Ep. 32
Welcome to UNPACKED , Armchair Adventures’ spin-off show for your listening and ‘join in’ pleasure. Hosted by Connie’s Uncle Chris, drama teacher and actor extraordinaire, and a cheeky soundboard called Ziggy, each episode challenges teams of customers and adventurers to ‘Unpack’ an adventure through a series of super silly games and some proper-hard adventure questions. 🎙️🎶 In this episode, we will be unpacking The Ancient Egyptian Adventure from season 5. In the adventure, Connie and the gan...
Feb 13, 2025•25 min•Season 5Ep. 31
Connie and the gang are back in Ancient Egypt 🌅🐫 – and this time, they have a mission 💪 Their meeting with Hatshepsut, the first woman to rule Egypt as a Pharoah – didn’t go to plan… The gang found Hatshepsut down in the dumps – convinced that one day everything she’d achieved would be forgotten. Can the gang prove to Hatshepsut that her legacy will live on? It will take some sneaky hieroglyphs, plenty of time travel and a history lesson like no other! ⏳🎶 Read the transcript of this episode ...
Jan 30, 2025•21 min•Season 5Ep. 30
Connie and the gang travel back through the sands of time, all the way to Ancient Egypt 🌅🐫 Connie is feeling sad about missing out on a special trip, and so, her lovely customer Jan decides to cheer her up. A history buff and all-round adventurer, Jan recreates her own once in a lifetime trip to the land of the Pharoahs. Only this time, powered by imagination, the gang are going to get to meet the Pharoahs for real… And not just any Pharoah – Hatshepsut – the first ever woman to rule as a Phar...
Jan 16, 2025•20 min•Season 5Ep. 29
Join Uncle Chris as he hosts the very first BAF-Dings award ceremony! 🏆 🎭 "When Connie asked me to host the BAF-dings she didn’t say it was going to be a workout too! All this exercise is working up my appetite!" 🙆🏻♂️ 😅 Because we've been on so many amazing journeys of the imagination, Uncle Chris and head travel agent Connie, we thought it was about time to give out some awards for our favourite join-in-at-home moments! 🎙️ So, get your glad rags at the ready because we're about to roll o...
Jan 02, 2025•16 min•Season 5Ep. 29
Think you know your Armchair Adventures inside and out..? Well, get ready to put your knowledge to the test with UNPACKED : the brand new spin-off from Armchair Adventures. It’s hosted by Connie’s Uncle Chris, and a mischevious soundboard called Ziggy. 🔉 Each Unpacked episode challenges you and teams of our customers and adventurers to ‘Unpack’ an Armchair Adventure through silly games like ‘Sing The Blanks’ and ‘ Don’t Say That Word!’ In this episode of UNPACKED , we’re getting festive with ‘A...
Dec 19, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 30
Welcome to UNPACKED - A brand-new spin-off show to Armchair Adventures for your listening and ‘join in’ pleasure. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ has ‘It Takes Two’💃🏿, ‘The Great British Bake Off’ has an “Extra Slice’🍰, and now...Armchair Adventures’ has UNPACKED! 🧳😀 Hosted by Connie’s Uncle Chris, drama teacher and actor extraordinaire, and a cheeky soundboard called Ziggy 🔉, each episode challenges teams of customers and adventurers to ‘Unpack’ an adventure through a series of super silly games ...
Dec 12, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 29
Join Connie & her lovely customers as we continue our super fun adventure at the magical theme park! 🎡🎠 Things get a little bonkers when the gang splits up to explore, but oh no — Anne has gone walkies! 😱 Will the gang find her in time before the park closes? 🎡🎠🕸️ ‘We might be out of the ghost train – but look! So are the skeletons!’ Join us as we ride spooky ghost trains👻, bump into skeletons on the dodgems 💥, and take a crazy ride on flying helter-skelter mats! 🛞 -----------------...
Dec 05, 2024•20 min•Season 5Ep. 28
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...
Nov 21, 2024•22 min•Season 5Ep. 27
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?!...
Nov 04, 2024•21 min•Season 5Ep. 26
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 ...
Oct 17, 2024•21 min•Season 5Ep. 25
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...
Oct 03, 2024•16 min•Season 5Ep. 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? And mo...
Sep 19, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 23
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...
Sep 04, 2024•3 min•Season 5Ep. 22
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 t...
Jul 18, 2024•18 min•Season 4Ep. 21
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 ...
Jul 04, 2024•17 min•Season 4Ep. 20
*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 su...
Jun 20, 2024•26 min•Season 4Ep. 19
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...
Jun 06, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 18
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 ...
May 16, 2024•20 min•Season 4Ep. 17
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 ...
May 02, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 16
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? 😱...
Apr 18, 2024•18 min•Season 4Ep. 15
