New Zealand's longest-running kids radio show, the 95bFM Kids' Show is a place where children get to share their thoughts, interests and talents live on the radio, with hosts Lee and/or Finn. Running since forever-ago, the Kids' Show features games and competitions, stories, songs and lots of laughter as well as plain old conversation. It's a happy community of children and families who call up every week to chat and participate. Broadcast on 95bFM every Sunday morning from 7 to 9am.
We continue with Danny the Champion of the World, chat with Ester about the upcoming Auckland Phil show 'Kiri & Lou in Concert', make it to 19 on the pancake count PLUS we have special guests Nico and Jimmy join in for the What am I? game!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Continuing on with Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World, chatting with Olivia Tennet about the new Kiri & Lou feature at the NZIFF, and Lee has trouble with the phones.
We continue with Danny the Champion of the World, chat with Geneva AM about her amazing show on the 9th of August at qtheatre, plus we're joined in the studio by Frances for more shoutouts than you can shake a stick at!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Matariki weekend! Danny the Champion of the World continues, plus we listen to a lovely Matariki story and chat about the long weekend.
We finish The Faraway Tree, and chat about what to listen to next.
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We carry on with the Faraway Tree, chat about birthday parties and making stuff.
It's starting to get cold!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We carry on with our chapter book The Wild Robot, and we talk puppets and the new Tim Bray Theatre Company production of Five Go on an Adventure!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We carry on with our chapter book, The Wild Robot, and we chat with Esther about Te Puawānanga, MOTAT's new Science and Technology centre.
The Kids' Show's NZ Music Week special!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We continue with our chapter book, the Wild Robot
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Finn's show this week!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We continue with our chapter book The Wild Robot, and go through the finalists for each category of the 2024 NZ Childrens' Music Awards.
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We finish our chapter book, The Enchanted Wood!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We chat with Kat Glass about The Great Piratical Rumbustification, a new production by the Tim Bray Theatre Company, on for the school holidays from the 13th April!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Thanks to Captain Festus for having a chat, and thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Lee's back from his time away and we continue with our chapter book The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton.
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Lee is still sick, thanks to Captain Finn for piloting the good ship Kids' Show!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Lee is sick, thanks to Finn for being such a great ship's captain!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We continue with our chapter book, finish the last part of Grogre the Ogre and chat back to school.
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We continue with the Ice Monster, listen to the final episode of FleaBITE's 3 Fleas in a Submarine, and chat with Dylan from Tim Bray Theatre Company about their new production of The Twits.
Fathers' Day Kids' Show podcast - happy fathers' day!
Thanks to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the Kids' Show <3
We continue with the Ice Monster, play another episode of fleaBITE's "3 Fleas in a submarine" and make it to 12 on the pancake count.
Thanks to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We continue with our chapter book The Ice Monster, chat with Siu from Loopy Tunes, and make it to 12 on the pancake count!
With thanks to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for being our lovely sponsors. Go and visit the museum it's amazing!
Finn is sick this week, get well soon Finn!
We continue with the Ice Monster, chat birthdays and trips to Auckland, and we make it to 14 on the pancake count.
Thanks to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
We continue with the Ice Monster and chat about football! Thanks to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa <3
We continue with our chapter book The Ice Monster by David Walliams, and make it to 9 on the pancake count.
Thanks to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa!
Ice Monster continues, plus birthdays, travels and we make it to 5 on the pancake count.
Frogs, mini golf and school holidays! Thanks to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa <3
Buckle up for some Ice Skating giveaways, a couple of crazy stories, and an interesting comparison of toast and pancakes.
the Kids' Show has a new sponsor! Welcome welcome welcome to the NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te ananui a Tāngaroa, we're thrilled to have you. Go take a look at www.maritimemuseum.co.nz to find out about all the cool stuff going on down there over the school holidays!
The Kids' Show has a new sponsor! Welcome aboard to The NZ Maritime Museum (Hui Te Ananui A Tangaroa)!
It's a chilly old morning this morning, brr! We start a new chapter book and chat birthdays.
We'll start a new chapter book - The Ice Monster by David Walliams - in two weeks' time!
Aotearoa Music Week! We nearly break a pancake count record with 23, plus we chat about a mysterious metal ring that might let the air out of the world.
We finish Five Go Off in a Caravan - hope you enjoyed it! Plus we chat with Barnie about his show MOON at the comedy festival, and listen to the finalists for "Best Children's Music Artist" at the Children's Music Awards happening today!
We listen to the finalists of Best Children's Music Video and Best Children's Song for the Children's Music Awards next week!
It's the last show of the school holidays! We talk going back to school, and holiday trips, and make it to 11 on the pancake count. Plus we continue with our chapter book, Five go off in a Caravan - only three chapters to go!
Thanks so much to Julia for chatting to us about their new production The Wild - go see it these school holidays!
We continue with our chapter book - Five go off in a caravan - plus we fumble through many separate explanations of Daylight Savings and reach 9 on the pancake count.
We talk to Captain Festus about his new album, have a surprise winner for the What am I game this week and have lots of lovely chats!
We continue with our chapter book, Five go off in a Caravan, and we make it to 9 on the pancake count!
A particularly quiet show this week, hope everyone is well and just out enjoying the sunshine!
We continue with our Famous Five chapter book and sandbag the studio doors! Hope you are keeping safe, warm and dry wherever you are!
We continue with our chapter book, Five go off in a caravan, and chat all things long weekend.
We finish Jacob 2-2 this week and we will start a new chapter book next week! Gong xi fa cai!
Finn's back for the first show of the year (if you don't include January 1st when no one really heard it lol).
It's the 95bFM Kids' Show Special Christmas Special Show! Join Lee, the pixies and his helpful (if noisy) reindeer for two hours of jingly jangly Christmas vibes :)
Get ready for the Xmas show on the 18th of December, plus we'll be doing a low-key Xmas Kids' Show on Xmas day too!
We finish our chapter book - The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton - and chat with FleaBITE about their new book.
We make it to pancake count of 16, and chat chickens, school fairs and pippinics... and try and chat with FleaBITE about their new book!
Finn filling in for Lee this week! Congrats to Wilbur for winning the What Am I? game - correctly guessing torch!
Finn filling in for Lee this week! Congrats to Wilbur for winning the What Am I? game - correctly guessing torch!
School holidays, yay! Lots of prizes and chats with people putting fun things on for you to enjoy!
Daylight Savings! We continue with our chapter book, listen to a new Kupu o te Wiki (thanks Esme & Sadie!) and chat Spring.
We continue with the faraway tree this week - then we'll have a couple of week break and get back into it soon!
We continue with Enid Blyton's Enchanted Wood, chat about birthdays, learn about fruit names in Te Reo from Esme and Sadie and we reach 25 on the pancake count!
A pre-recorded show this week so no phone calls or messages, but we do continue with our chapter book and Esme & Sadie talk to us about things we like to do!
We start a new chapter book - Enid Blyton's The Enchanted Wood - and chat with amazing musician Gerry Paul about his new song "The Fairy Child". Plus, we chat lots and eat 14 helpings of pancakes!
In which we finish Roald Dahl's Matilda, and talk birthday parties, playdates, going back to school and reach 19 on the pancake count.
We talk school holidays, chat with Captain Festus and carry on with our chapter book, Matilda
We continue with Matilda, FINALLY finish Grogre the Ogre and chat with Lucas from the Tim Bray production of Bad Jelly the Witch - on now and all through the holidays!
Continuing with our chapter book this week - hope everyone has a very good Matariki weekend next week!
No Matilda this week - NZ Music Week so we take a break to play 100% NZ music and stories! Back to our chapter book next week.
Respectable pancake count this week, 23!
Our thanks to Kath Bee for chatting with us about her new collaboration with Levity Beet and congratulations to Kath and all the other Children's Music Award winners for this year!
We start a new chapter book - Matilda by Roald Dahl, plus we carry on with part 2 of Grogre the Ogre!
It's the last day of the holidays! We talk going back to school, and make it to a record 27 on the pancake count!
We also finish our chapter book this week - we'll start a new one in a few weeks - perhaps the BFG!
Daylight savings comes to an end! Goodbye long summery evenings hello cozy winter nights!
We continue with Five Have Plenty of Fun and start a new segment called Kupu o te Wiki!
We say "Haere ra" to Stuff We Like with Neve and Esme and "Kia ora!" to Te Kupu o te Wiki with Esme and Sadie! Thanks so much to Neve for everything she's done with the Rahui Review and Stuff We Like - we're really going to miss you!
We carry on with our chapter book, Five Have Plenty of Fun, and have plenty of chats and requests!
Lots of brand new songs this week from Levity Beet, Gerry Paul, FleaBITE, Matt Time and more!
Venus, Mars and Mercury in a beautiful triangle this morning with a lovely bright no longer full moon!
Thanks to Neve and Esme for another wonderful "Stuff We Like"
Rainy Waitangi weekend show! Neve and Esme are back with their first Stuff We Like of the year, we continue with our chapter book "Five Have Plenty of Fun" and we make it to a respectable pancake count of 11!
For a sleepy Auckland Anniversary long weekend show we begin a new chapter book - Five Have Plenty of Fun and talk with Simon Stanley about his new book (and lovely new song) "Floating down the river".
Cement works chats, birthdays, moving to america, just say no to baby shark!
We'll be starting a new chapter book next week, and listening to the second part of the Lord of the Rushie River
Lee's first show back of the year! Thanks Finn for steering the ship over the holidays!
We finish The BFG this week, we'll start a new book in a couple of weeks - we had a request for a Famous Five book so look out for that!
Finn decided against a pre-recorded show for Boxing Day and came in live to play songs, stories and find out how your christmas went!