Tea, Tales, and Tomes

About Tea, Tales, and Tomes

At Tea, Tales, and Tomes we are living our favourite lives talking books and drinking hot beverages. So grab your cuppa and join us in this gentle corner of the audio world - a community of readers, raising readers. Join us fortnightly, on a Wednesday, for all the wonder of kids books shelves that adults will also find delight in. I will give you hints and tips on how to raise bookdragons and provide you will tons of great book recommendations that are long-lasting shelf occupiers. Check out more information on the Tea, Tales, and Tomes blog: https://teatalesandtomes.wordpress.com/ or simply follow Tea, Tales, and Tomes on Instagram and TikTok @teatalesandtomes

Publisher

Natasha

Category

arts · kids & family · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Mar 2025

Latest episode

15 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Finding Science in Fiction: Leave the Droll Science Lessons Behind

   We'd love your feedback. Send us a message. I kick off this episode with a vampire story but it lands somewhere unexpectedly practical: how to raise scientifically curious children without turning your home into a worksheet factory. We’re making the case that fiction, not just non-fiction science books, can build the real foundations of scientific thinking: attention, observation, affection, and the courage to keep asking questions when you don’t yet have answers. We walk through a carefully...

2. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Tea, Tales, and Test Tubes: Award-winning Author Elizabeth Shreeve Talks Dinosaurs To Dragons

   We'd love your feedback. Send us a message. What do house-sitting for a world-renowned scientist, a fascination for deep time and dinosaurs, being a self-confessed book dragon, and drinking copious quantities of tea have in common? Absolutely nothing… unless, of course, you’re Elizabeth Shreeve! And luckily for us, she is our guest today. In today's episode, we are continuing our exploration of the intersection between science, storytelling, and wonder and trace a thrilling path ...

3. 

   17 Aug 2026

   Tea, Tales, and Test Tubes: When School Kills Scientific Wonder

   We'd love your feedback. Send us a message. A rotten bean in a glass jar should be a brilliant science moment, right? Instead, it becomes the moment my child looks at me with worry and says, “I’m going to lose marks.” That fear is what sends me down a bigger question: when primary school science education becomes worksheets, right answers, and ticking boxes, are we accidentally teaching children to hate science and even to hate learning? The shock! The horror! We start with the “growi...

Who has been a guest on Tea, Tales, and Tomes

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• Shareez Bagaria
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• Janet Lansbury
• Roslynne Toerien

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

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Quality

77

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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