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KidCast: The Wild One featuring Colin Stafford Johnson

KidCast goes a little bit wild this week as Céire and her jungle swinging friend Jake who chats about children raised in the wild, living 'off grid', foraging wild food and some of Ireland’s native wildlife too.

Plus, we find out about all the work that goes into those amazing wildlife TV shows we all love with Colin Stafford Johnson.

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Jake is on hosting duties this week.

11-year-old Ethan O’Connor kicks things off with a wild riddle- do you know what happened to the missing camper?!

Kidcast’s Reptile Reporter, 8-year-old Jay, visits the National Reptile Zoo in Kilkenny. He gets up close and personal with a snapping turtle, who has no teeth but can break an adult’s arm!

KidCast News is presented this week by Luke and Aoibhínn, before 'Around the World' with Doireann and Jack, who moved from Limerick to Tanzania in 2021.

They take a short break from swimming with turtles and their fried octopus lunch to chat with Jake about their wild African experience so far!

10-year-old Ronan from Ballina is on Game Time with ‘Taboo’ and on When I Grow Up Jake talks to cameraman and presenter Colin Stafford Johnson about filming tigers in India and why we should be wild gardening.

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The School Tour

Welcome to the KidCast School Tour with Paudie's 6th Class at Portlaoise Educate Together National School! This week Cormac and Amy help us explore polar animals and Piotr will be telling us how plastic is affecting them in a negative way. Get ready for a wild polar safari!

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