The Children's Hour Inc.

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The Children's Hour is a weekly radio show created for and with kids available in 54m and 58m episodes. We offer the same content through two different PRX delivery methods, the automated PRX delivery service, and the downloadable exchange. 

The Children's Hour is a weekly, educational and entertaining public radio program for kids and families. Using excellent music, expert guests, talented kids and a format that is a proven success in growing and keeping listeners of all ages engaged.

The Children's Hour includes kids in all aspects of the production. We're dedicated to filling educational gaps, by focusing on civics, STEM, culture, and performance, using interviews with scientists, experts in all fields, civil servants, cultural educators, performers and others, and weaving shows together with a wide variety of musical genres.

Kids on our crew and in our community contribute content, design programming, and cohost our shows.

We are happy to make station tags. Just reach out to us at info@childrenshour.org

Learn more about us, get photos from our shows, links on our themes, and more at ChildrensHour.org 

Series

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The Children's Hour Inc has produced a curricular podcast series to teach the unique history of the high desert Southwestern United States for kids and adults.

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199 Pieces

The Children’s Hour is public radio's premier all-ages weekly radio show created for and with kids. Diverse themes are explored using interviews, storytelling, poetry, music, and discussion with kids on our talented Kids Crew. Always professionally produced - learn something new with us while fostering the next generation of public radio listeners.

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187 Pieces

The Children’s Hour is an hour long weekly radio show created for and with kids, available 54 and 58 minutes. A wide diversity of themes are explored using interviews, storytelling, poetry, music, and discussion with our Kids Crew. Learn something new with us. Content from this series will deliver automatically to station automation systems. Please reach out to katie@childrenshour.org for more information.


Pieces

Caption: Photo by Russell Lee, New Mexico girls c. 1940
This week on The Children's Hour, we learn about traditional children's songs of New Mexico.

Bought by KGLP, KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Evan and Sam and Goat, Credit: Vanessa Vassar
Kids explore death and grief on the show with authors, experts, and telling their own experiences

Bought by KCHU, KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: A peek at the collection of more than 8 million artifacts, Credit: Katie Stone
Broadcasting from a laboratory inside the Center for New Mexico Archaeology, the Kids learn about the science of studying ancient cultures.

Bought by KCHU, KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Sand tarantula
What place do spiders, snakes, centipedes and other commonly disliked animals have in the web of life?

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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The kids interview a climatologist, a meteorologist, and other kids about climate change

Bought by KCHU, KZUM, KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Globalquerque Schooltime Show, Credit: Katie Stone
Take a trip around the world through music and hear an interview with acclaimed young adult author, Rick Riorden

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Two Of A Kind in Sunspot Studio With The Children's Hour, Credit: Vanessa Vassar
Award winning children's duo Two Of A Kind play a mini concert for The Children's Hour

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 14, 2019
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Sandia Peak Ski Area, Credit: Wiki, Creative Commons
Recorded live at the East Mountain Library in Tijeras, New Mexico, The Children's Hour explores mountain living with Bernalillo County Commissioner...

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Explore the wonder of sound on The Children's Hour

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 5
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The Kids Crew explore birthday celebrations from around the world

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6