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Everything Under The Sun

Everything Under The Sun

Auteur(s): Molly Oldfield
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Children are full of curiosity and questions about the world.

Each Friday, join Molly Oldfield, write of the weekly kids quiz in the Guardian each Saturday, the original QI elf and author and host of Everything Under The Sun (both the book and podcast) as she answers questions sent in by children around the world with the help of experts including Neil Gaiman, Heston Blumenthal, Grayson Perry, Lauren Child, Richard Branson and Sophie Dahl to the fish curators at the Natural History Museum.

If you're a kid - big or small - with questions you want answered or if you want to learn interesting facts about life on earth, this is the award winning podcast for you.

Do check out Everything Under The Sun - a curious question for every day of the year, published by Ladybird books now!

2025 Molly Oldfield
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  • #160 How do plants grow? w/ Arief Rabik. How does the Shinkansen train go so fast? Why do mosquito bites itch?

    #160 How do plants grow? w/ Arief Rabik. How does the Shinkansen train go so fast? Why do mosquito bites itch?
    Sep 26 2025

    Welcome to Episode #160 of Everything Under the Sun!

    This week, we’re joined by the wise and wonderful Arief Rabik, a bamboo forestry advocate and founder of Indobamboo! He explains how plants grow! 🌱🫛

    We learn about the fascinating Shinkansen bullet train and how it manages to go so fast! 🚄

    And why do mosquito bites itch so much! 🦟

    Don't forget, if three questions just aren't enough for you, there are 366 more in Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World!

    Check it out at www.mollyoldfield.co.uk! It makes the perfect pressie do buy one now : )

    If you want more Everything Under The Sun, here is the Everything Under The Sun: Quiz Book. Available on Amazon here, or through independent UK bookshops here. On top of that the original book Everything Under the Sun: a curious question for every day of the year is available on Amazon and in independent bookshops here.

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    13 min
  • #159 Why do reptiles lay eggs and mammals don't? w/ Felix Marx. How do babies learn how to talk? When did people start keeping cats as pets?

    #159 Why do reptiles lay eggs and mammals don't? w/ Felix Marx. How do babies learn how to talk? When did people start keeping cats as pets?
    Sep 19 2025

    Welcome to Episode #159 of Everything Under the Sun!

    This week, we’re joined by the brilliant Dr Felix Marx, palaeontologist, biologist and curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa! He explains why reptiles lay eggs and mammals don't. 🥚

    We learn about the complicated process of how babies learn how to talk!

    And when people started keeping cats as pets! 🐈

    Don't forget, if three questions just aren't enough for you, there are 366 more in Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World!

    Check it out at www.mollyoldfield.co.uk! It makes the perfect pressie do buy one now : )

    If you want more Everything Under The Sun, here is the Everything Under The Sun: Quiz Book. Available on Amazon here, or through independent UK bookshops here. On top of that the original book Everything Under the Sun: a curious question for every day of the year is available on Amazon and in independent bookshops here.

    Instagram: @itseverythingunderthesun and @mollyoldfieldwrites
    Tiktok: @itseverythingunderthesun
    X/Twitter: @eutsworld

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    14 min
  • #158 Everything Under The Sun - All around the world, the book!

    #158 Everything Under The Sun - All around the world, the book!
    Sep 10 2025

    Welcome to Episode #158 of Everything Under the Sun!

    This week, we’re joined by the brilliant James Maclaine, fish curator at the Natural History Museum in London to answer a fishy question, why do Anglerfish have lights on their heads?

    We find out about life as a wombat and why they do square poos?

    And why ice cream is SO yummy!

    Each answer is from Molly Oldfield's new BOOK, Everything Under The Sun, all around the world.

    Check it out at www.mollyoldfield.co.uk! It makes the perfect pressie do buy one now : )

    If you want more Everything Under The Sun, here is the Everything Under The Sun: Quiz Book. Available on Amazon here, or through independent UK bookshops here. On top of that the original book Everything Under the Sun: a curious question for every day of the year is available on Amazon and in independent bookshops here.

    Instagram: @itseverythingunderthesun and @mollyoldfieldwrites
    Tiktok: @itseverythingunderthesun
    X/Twitter: @eutsworld

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    14 min
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