Hear a familiar hello, a surprising discovery and a question worth thinking about. Try the samples, read along, and picture a show made around your child.
A LITTLE PREVIEWA little trip to SaturnWith Alex · Luka’s daily discoveries
Sample excerpt
TAKE THEIR CURIOSITY SOMEWHERE
Big adventures. Little listening moments.
A little taste of the adventures ahead. These samples are made for Luka, our fictional listener.
SPACE & SCIENCE
A little trip to Saturn
An imaginary space trip with sister Ava, icy rings, and a very big discovery.
Read the sample
Hey Luka! It’s Alex here. Ready for a little trip to somewhere enormous? Today, we’re visiting Saturn! Imagine a ball so big that more than seven hundred Earths could fit inside it. Now give that ball a beautiful set of rings. Luka, imagine you and your sister Ava are looking out of a pretend spaceship. Those beautiful rings? They’re made of billions of pieces of ice and rock! Some are tiny grains. Others are as big as a house. Here’s a question for you. True or false: Saturn’s rings are one solid piece? Have a think. It’s false! They’re lots and lots of separate pieces, all travelling around the planet. What a discovery to share with Ava!
ANIMALS & NATURE
Eight arms. Endless wonder.
Start with Pip’s four paws. Meet an ocean neighbour with twice as many arms.
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Hey Luka! Alex here, and today we’re imagining a peek beneath the waves. There’s an octopus hiding among the rocks. An octopus can change the colour of its skin to blend into its surroundings. It has eight arms, covered in little suckers that help it feel and hold things. Think about Pip’s four paws, Luka. An octopus has eight arms. That’s twice as many! Hold up eight fingers — one for every octopus arm. Here’s something else amazing: an octopus has three hearts! Two send blood to its gills, and one sends it around the rest of its body. Now, true or false: an octopus has just one heart? Have a little think. False! Three hearts. What a wonderful ocean neighbour.
EVERYDAY WONDERS
Where do raindrops come from?
Nana’s tomato plants are the start of a wonderful journey through the water cycle.
Read the sample
Hey Luka! It’s Alex. Think about Nana watering her tomato plants. That water has been on quite a journey! Some of it might have been in a cloud, a river, or even the sea. How does that happen? As water warms up, some of it turns into a gas called water vapour and rises into the air. We call that evaporation. Higher up, the air is cooler. The water vapour can turn back into tiny drops, and lots of those drops together make a cloud. When drops join up and get heavy enough, they fall as rain! Next time you’re with Nana, you could tell her about the amazing journey water takes. From a puddle, to a cloud, to her tomato plants. A little world of wonder, right in her garden.
Short illustrative samples, made with a generated presenter voice. Every child’s full show follows their own interests and settings.
MORE THAN SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO
A show they can join in with.
The samples are short excerpts. A full discovery episode makes space to join in: a familiar greeting, something new, time to think, and a little idea to take away.
FIRST, A FAMILIAR HELLO
“Hey Luka! Ready to explore?”
THEN, SOMETHING WONDERFUL
A discovery worth telling you about.
OVER TO THEM
“True or false? Have a little think…”
A LITTLE SOMETHING TO TAKE AWAY
Try an activity. Share a joke. Stay curious.
LITTLE SHOWS. REAL-LIFE MOMENTS.
Press play, their way
A simple player for little hands. A private feed for their own show. Take their daily discoveries wherever the day takes you.
Phone, tablet, or computer
Open their private player link on a phone, tablet or computer. Choose an episode from their library and press play. An adult sets it up and decides who has the link.
Compatible podcast apps
Add their private feed to a podcast app that supports RSS subscriptions. Published episodes arrive in that feed, so their show can sit alongside your family’s other favourites.
Yoto Make Your Own cards
An adult can connect the podcast feed to a Yoto Make Your Own card. You will need your own compatible Yoto player and MYO card; neither is included with HeyLuka.
A warm hello, something new to discover, questions to answer out loud, a true-or-false quiz, a little activity, and a joke to finish. The show is built around learning and participation, with pauses that give your child time to think. You can adjust the episode length and pacing.
Where can my child listen?
Every child gets a private web player link and podcast feed. Open the player on a phone, tablet, or computer, or use the feed in a compatible podcast app. You can also connect the feed to a Yoto Make Your Own card; the player or card needs to be set up by an adult.
