A fun-packed, adventure-filled fictional series - where you come along for the journey! You'll follow teenager Connie, who lives with her parents above their struggling, family-run travel business. She's invented a different way to take a holiday - by using your imagination! In each, sing and move-along episode, you join Connie and her plucky team of explorers as they take you on a series of Armchair Adventures. You’ll visit magical places and meet extraordinary people. Armchair Adventures is for children and families. Listen on your own or together, during recreational time, family visits, in-person or over video calls – there are endless possibilities for your next adventure! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Made By Mortals Production in collaboration with Hearts & Minds theatre group. Director - Paul Hine. Music - AJS Music. Music Producer - James Dee. Sound Design & Production by Suzi Dale - Story Publishing.
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
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! ♻️
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
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!
Uncle Chris needs Connie's help to break a world record, but she needs to study for a test on vaccinations!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Connie and the gang are back in Ancient Egypt
Connie and the gang travel back through the sands of time, all the way to Ancient Egypt
Join Uncle Chris as he hosts the very first BAF-Dings award ceremony!
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.
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'
Join Connie & her lovely customers as we continue our super fun adventure at the magical theme park!
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.
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?!Join us in 1605 once again Adventurers for the thrilling conclusion of ‘A Gunpowder, Treason and Plot Adventure!'
Connie need's some help explaining bonfire night to some guests she has staying and asks Uncle Chris if he can help!No 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 the 1st, 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!'
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 timefor the rocket launch!
Season 5 isback with a bang, as Connie and the gang blast off into space!Connie and herteam of adventurers are off on an exciting journey to the moon, led by Hazel—aformer soldier and all-round adventure seeker. Along the way, Connie faces herown fears about going away on a camping trip without her mum. From sneakinginto NASA, prepping a retired rocket and training like astronauts, this episodeis filled with imaginative join-in fun! Will Connierealise she's braver than she thinks? And most importantly, has she packedenough biscuits for the flight?!
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 customersFrom a thrilling theme park escapade to blasting off into the cosmos, it's going to be an unforgettable ride!
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…
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…
*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.'
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!'
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!”
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!”
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…'
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…'
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!
“Strap yourself in, everybody; this last bit of the journey will be quite the ride.”
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.
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.
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"
"Girls are strong, and girls are clever, look out world 'cos here we come!"
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!"
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! ”
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!!
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.”
Connie has been invited to a Hindu wedding! To prepare for the big day, Connie and her lovely customers are off on another exciting Armchair Adventure to Gujarat in India ✨
Connie is making her own scary movie! So she's set Uncle Chris and his local community theatre group a mission to collect the top ten ingredients she needs to make a super scary mooooovie!
“This adventure is helping me feel happier and more relaxed too. Being up here, floating in space.”
We are DIGGING series 4, as Connie takes a break from packing to explore an archaeological dig! “Archaeology is a way to build connections between us and the people who came before us.” ⛏️
We've got some exciting news for you…
"Armchair Adventures Travel Agency....Mission....Series 4!!"
It's crafty chaos as Connie, Uncle Chris and the Armchair Adventures gang try to create cool costumes for Pride!“If we all work together, we can have some amazing recycled outfits in no time!”
Get your gardening tools at the ready to help Uncle Chris with his growing woes in this episode of Armchair Adventures!“Growing a garden takes time and careful planning! ”
Against the odds, the gang help Connie to reach the Repair Cafe to find out if her favourite necklace can be repaired - as well as her friendship with her best friend.“Friendships aren't disposable. They need to be looked after and cared for. ”
After falling out with her best friend, Connie is keen to mend things by going on a wild adventure to the Repair Cafe with her customers.“A good friendship doesn't change, even after a couple of years, you just pick up where you left off. ”
Connie and the gang get a taste of Bike Kitchen magic when they go to donate Christine's old bicycle.“When you're on your bike, you're totally in the moment – no chance to worry about anything else!” ⚙️
Get ready to pedal as you join Connie and the gang on a very special bike ride!“That's the thing with riding your bike, you're not on anyone else's timetable, you're free to explore!” ✨