{"podcast":{"title":"News Time","slug":"news-time-407810","podcast_index_feed_id":407810,"rss_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/feeds/9989710/podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/programs/news-time/","image_url":"https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/8b9e5a578590113cdb9cbc3eb12e2828.jpg?src","author":"ABC","episode_count":250,"summary":"Every Friday, join Emily for News Time as she counts down the week’s most interesting news stories for kids. From amazing animals to special events, the natural world to outer space, News Time is made especially for children to help them understand the world around them.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T08:19:16.797466+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/news-time-407810"},"episode":{"title":"Shuffling trails and spewing whales","slug":"shuffling-trails-and-spewing-whales","published_at":"2026-05-14T21:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/news-time-407810/shuffling-trails-and-spewing-whales","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/news-time-407810","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/programs/news-time/shuffling-trails-spewing-whales/106679278","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/kh/Z/c9.mp3","summary":"Isaac Muller is back to bring you more News Time! We’ll hear about a group of teenage hikers who used their knowledge to make a brave rescue. We’ll find something gross but valuable that’s washed up on a beach. Then, in our Wow of the Week, we’ll meet someone who loves our world and has lived on it for much longer than most of us! Quiz Questions 1. What has been discovered about platypuses from millions of years ago? 2. What did the girls make to get the injured hiker to safety? 3. Ambergris was once used as an ingredient in what item? 4. Where are many Meekatharra kids riding their repaired bikes to? 5. How old did Sir David Attenborough turn last week? Answers 1. They had teeth! 2. A homemade stretcher 3. Perfume 4. School 5. 100!","meta_description":"Isaac Muller is back to bring you more News Time! We’ll hear about a group of teenage hikers who used their knowledge to make a brave rescue. We’ll find s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":798,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/news-time-407810/episodes/shuffling-trails-and-spewing-whales/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/news-time-407810/shuffling-trails-and-spewing-whales.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}