Adventure FM catalogue
Fifty planned adventures, starting in London in 1666 and then travelling backwards through history to ancient Egypt. Each one stands on its own. Release dates will be announced as each is ready.
50 adventures
Adventure 01 · Start here
London, 1666. Ned secretly bodges a broken gate. That night the Great Fire breaks out, and his elderly neighbour is trapped behind it. The grown-ups can’t open it, and only Ned knows why. To get her out before the fire reaches the river, he must own up and fix it himself.
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Adventure 02 · When the World Held Its Breath
On the night the Berlin Wall opens, Lukas and his family join the crowds hoping to reach an aunt they have never been free to visit. But an elderly neighbour cannot keep up, and staying to help may cost them their long-awaited reunion.
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Adventure 03 · When the World Held Its Breath
Ben has promised his neighbours a front-row seat for the Moon landing—then the borrowed television goes blank. With the school hall filling up and the astronauts nearly ready, he and his cousin Ruth must find help before their whole community misses the moment.
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Adventure 04 · When the World Held Its Breath
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Danny becomes convinced that a stranger with a radio is a spy. But his accusations put his best friend’s family under suspicion. Following a missing parcel through town, the two boys must uncover what really happened before their friendship falls apart.
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Adventure 05 · When the World Held Its Breath
When a storm floods his Essex village, Peter discovers that a family is still missing from the shelter. The rescuers believe their cottage is empty. With water rising through the streets, he must convince them to go back before the family is left beyond reach.
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Adventure 06 · When the World Held Its Breath
During the Berlin Airlift, Emil is determined to catch a chocolate parachute before his rival does. Then his delivery cart breaks, leaving an elderly neighbour waiting for supplies. With the aircraft approaching, he must choose between the prize he longs for and the person depending on him.
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Adventure 07 · When the World Held Its Breath
An exhausted pigeon returns to Harry’s loft carrying a wartime message. While his father contacts the official handlers, Harry and June must keep the bird safe. For a boy desperate to help the war effort, the hardest task is leaving its secret unopened.
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Adventure 08 · When the World Held Its Breath
Jack joins his father’s small boat in the evacuation of Dunkirk, ferrying stranded soldiers to larger ships. But damaged gear and exhausted passengers test everything he knows. When there are more men waiting than the boat can carry, helping them means following orders he desperately wants to question.
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Adventure 09 · Further Than Anyone Thought
Young stowaway Perce Blackborow gets the adventure he wanted when he joins Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition. Then ice crushes their ship. Stranded far from home and unable to walk, Perce must depend on his companions as they struggle to keep everyone alive and bring help back.
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Adventure 10 · Further Than Anyone Thought
On a bitter morning in 1903, Johnny Moore watches the Wright brothers prepare a machine that seems far too flimsy to fly. Through setbacks, careful adjustments and four remarkable attempts, he witnesses the moment years of work finally lift off the sand.
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Adventure 11 · Further Than Anyone Thought
With Athens celebrating the first modern Olympics, cousins Nikos and Petros turn their family deliveries into a race. Then the takings disappear. Their search leads to a lost purse and a stranded visitor—and helping may mean missing the finish they most wanted to see.
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Adventure 12 · Further Than Anyone Thought
When his sister joins the match workers’ strike, Billy promises to help keep the family fed. Instead, he sends a precious food parcel to the wrong place. With his friend Kit and an unreliable bicycle, he must trace it through London and put his grand plan right.
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Adventure 13 · Further Than Anyone Thought
As Canada’s great railway nears completion, Ming discovers that the record needed to claim his father’s wages is missing. With the work camp being dismantled, he and Arthur follow a trail of scraps and delivery tallies before the evidence—and the men who can help—leave.
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Adventure 14 · Further Than Anyone Thought
A ship is in trouble off the Cornish coast, and Tom knows where to find the gear its rescuers need. But the skipper once publicly humiliated his father. As the storm worsens, Tom and his friend Jory must get past a locked gate—and Tom’s lingering anger.
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Adventure 15 · Further Than Anyone Thought
At the opening of the Suez Canal, Hassan manoeuvres his family into the perfect place to watch the grand ships. Then a nearby tow swings loose towards their little boat. He and his sister must help their father get clear before the celebration becomes a collision.
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Adventure 16 · Promises on the Long Road
Nebraska, 1860. Caleb wants to be the fastest rider on the Pony Express, so he skips the boring jobs, and a rider falls. Now the news of the new President is stuck in the Platte River’s quicksand, and the westbound rider leaves at sunrise. The only horse left is the slowest one.
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Adventure 17 · Promises on the Long Road
A delivery of clean sheets disappears on its way to the crowded hospital at Scutari. Osman and Eliza each blame the other, but the patients still need their linen. Retracing the bundles through stores and deliveries brings them closer to a mistake Osman would rather hide.
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Adventure 18 · Promises on the Long Road
When a ship is wrecked near Longstone Lighthouse, Grace Darling spots survivors stranded on a wave-battered rock. She and her father launch their small boat into dangerous seas. This dramatisation follows the real rescue and the difficult work of bringing the survivors safely ashore.
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Adventure 19 · Promises on the Long Road
Freddie’s first steam-train journey becomes a mystery when he accidentally takes another passenger’s parcel. Inside is something far stranger than his aunt’s sewing. With his cousin Mary, he must retrace the mix-up and find its owner before the railway carries their belongings farther apart.
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Adventure 20 · Promises on the Long Road
Petition sheets opposing the slave trade vanish from Joseph’s print shop. His fellow apprentice wants to replace the signatures from memory; Joseph insists on finding the originals. Their search reaches a tradesman who will only help if they change the words their neighbours agreed to support.
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Adventure 21 · Promises on the Long Road
At Trafalgar, inexperienced midshipman Edward must carry an order through the noise and smoke of battle. But he isn’t certain what he heard. To deliver it correctly, he needs the help of a seasoned sailor whose advice he has spent the voyage dismissing.
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Adventure 22 · Promises on the Long Road
A sheep is about to fly in a balloon at Versailles, and Luc thinks he has spotted it escaping. His pursuit draws Madeleine and her delivery basket into the confusion. Can they untangle the mix-up and reach the demonstration before the real animal passengers take off?
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Adventure 23 · Who Deserves Your Loyalty?
In occupied New York, apprentice printer Isaac is asked to help publish an accusation against a neighbour. His family is divided over the revolution, but he knows the evidence has been twisted. With soldiers approaching, he must get his master to read the original letter.
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Adventure 24 · Who Deserves Your Loyalty?
When an earthquake strikes Lisbon, Tiago and his sister follow their mother through shattered streets. Their familiar escape route leads towards a waterfront facing fresh danger. With an injured neighbour slowing them, the family must find another way to reach higher ground.
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Adventure 25 · Who Deserves Your Loyalty?
Ben finally meets a pirate—but Rafe wants to return stolen goods, not bury treasure. When another pirate comes to take them back, Ben and Cora are caught in a struggle over the chest. Their cooperage becomes a hiding place, and Ben’s dream of adventure suddenly feels very real.
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Adventure 26 · Who Deserves Your Loyalty?
At a fair on the frozen Thames, Robin mistakes a performer for a thief—and gives a real pickpocket the chance to steal Will’s takings. With help from Bess and the grown-up Ned, he must follow the clues through the crowded booths before the money disappears.
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Adventure 27 · Who Deserves Your Loyalty?
London, after the Great Fire. Ned is desperate to beat Father’s new apprentice, so he takes a forbidden shortcut through the burnt city, and Father’s account book vanishes. Now Matthew is blamed, a timber merchant wants paying twice, and the only way to put it right is back down into the ruins.
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Adventure 28 · Who Deserves Your Loyalty?
In tulip-mad Haarlem, Pieter promises a buyer a magnificent flower he has never seen. With the sale approaching and the market turning nervous, he searches his father’s nursery for a way out. His friend Annetje knows enough about bulbs to make his bluff increasingly difficult.
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Adventure 29 · Who Deserves Your Loyalty?
As fireships scatter the Spanish Armada off Calais, Hugh hears a Spanish boy calling from the water. His boat’s officer fears a trap, but the boy cannot free his arm. Hugh must persuade the crew to attempt a rescue amid the burning ships and drifting wreckage.
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Adventure 30 · Words, Maps and Dangerous Knowledge
The first voyage around the world returns to Seville with an impossible puzzle: the sailors’ calendar is a day behind. Young clerk Diego suspects a lie. With Isabel’s help, he follows their journey across charts and accounts to discover how careful counting could produce the wrong date.
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Adventure 31 · Words, Maps and Dangerous Knowledge
Hans finds an error on a freshly printed page—then discovers it in a growing pile of copies. Admitting it will embarrass the workshop and waste costly paper. With Marta’s help, he must trace the faulty sheets before the bundles leave and the mistake travels with them.
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Adventure 32 · Words, Maps and Dangerous Knowledge
At Malacca’s busy harbour, aspiring interpreter Afiq sends visitors to the wrong landing after pretending to understand an instruction. Then a squall disrupts the waterfront. Working with his aunt and a visiting sailor, he must help reunite the party using words he can be certain of.
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Adventure 33 · Words, Maps and Dangerous Knowledge
Travelling with Mansa Musa’s great caravan, Balla dreams of gold and important company. But his supply group falls behind in the Sahara, with a slipping load, an exhausted man and dwindling water. Catching up will take more than abandoning whatever—and whoever—seems to be slowing them down.
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Adventure 34 · Words, Maps and Dangerous Knowledge
Ordered to leave England in 1290, Elias’s Jewish family waits for a cart that never arrives. His neighbour Willam offers a hiding place, but Elias refuses to leave his parents. Together the boys must find transport—and confront a harmful rumour—before the family’s departure.
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Adventure 35 · Words, Maps and Dangerous Knowledge
Helping build Salisbury Cathedral, Adam hears a worrying sound when he taps a stone being prepared for lifting. The older apprentice who taught him insists it is sound. With the ropes ready, Adam must persuade the master to check it, risking the friendship he values most.
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Adventure 36 · Words, Maps and Dangerous Knowledge
While the King and barons gather at Runnymede, young clerk’s helper Martin loses a sealed packet in the riverside mud. A servant offers to return it for a price, but the ferryman’s daughter suspects a trick. Together they must recover the real document before Martin’s master asks for it.
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Adventure 37 · Kingdoms, Raiders and the Stranger
After Jerusalem’s surrender, Peter’s family gathers the money and belongings they need to leave. Then they discover that a neighbour’s child has no place in the departure arrangements. With the queue moving, they must seek an interpreter’s help and find a way to bring her with them.
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Adventure 38 · Kingdoms, Raiders and the Stranger
As an invading army advances through Sussex, Edwin hides his family’s supplies to stop them abandoning their mill. When danger draws closer, he must undo the delay and help lead the younger children away. On their escape route, they find a wounded man wearing enemy equipment.
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Adventure 39 · Kingdoms, Raiders and the Stranger
Far from home at a Norse camp in North America, Haki helps prepare a damaged boat for the return voyage. But the shipwright is running short of metal. As departure approaches, Haki must decide whether to give up his treasured possession to help make the vessel seaworthy.
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Adventure 40 · Kingdoms, Raiders and the Stranger
Somerset, 878. King Alfred is hiding in the marshes, and Osric, an eel-catcher’s son who wants to be a warrior, has lost the king’s only boat. Now he must guide a giant messenger along hidden paths under the water before dawn, when a whole village leaves Wessex for good.
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Adventure 41 · Kingdoms, Raiders and the Stranger
In Baghdad, Yunus is preparing to show off his new measuring instrument when Mariam spots results that do not agree. Together they investigate the shifting shadows before the demonstration. The closer they come to the answer, the less impressive Yunus’s proudest claim begins to look.
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Adventure 42 · Kingdoms, Raiders and the Stranger
When raiders approach Lindisfarne, Cuthred joins a monk leading a small group towards safety. Entrusted with a bundle of precious manuscript pages, he struggles to keep up. Then an older man needs help walking, and Cuthred cannot carry the books and support him at the same time.
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Adventure 43 · Kingdoms, Raiders and the Stranger
As Aidan’s community takes shape on Lindisfarne, Niall wants to finish his family’s new home. Then another household arrives needing shelter. Working with Hild, who knows the island better than he does, he must decide how much of his carefully saved timber he is willing to share.
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Adventure 44 · What Makes a Civilisation?
During a visit to Constantinople’s enormous new church, Petros loses sight of his little cousin. Andreas’s cries echo from behind a screened work area, making him difficult to locate. While adults search for a safe way in, Petros must use a familiar song to help guide them.
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Adventure 45 · What Makes a Civilisation?
When a trader’s animals stray across the Roman frontier, Marcus suspects theft—but the trader’s daughter Brenna spots a different trail. Following the missing livestock brings the two children up against gates, guards and Marcus’s own accusation. Getting the animals home means working together across the wall.
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Adventure 46 · What Makes a Civilisation?
As Vesuvius erupts, baker’s son Felix must abandon his work and flee Pompeii with his family. Falling stones and crowded streets make their familiar route harder to follow. With his sister remembering another way, he helps an exhausted neighbour while their mother leads them towards safety.
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Adventure 47 · What Makes a Civilisation?
Distracted by ships arriving at Alexandria, Petos neglects a supply check at the great lighthouse. When the delivery fails to appear, he and his friend Doro discover a broken cart. With visibility worsening at sea, they must help get the keeper’s supplies moving again.
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Adventure 48 · What Makes a Civilisation?
Near Marathon, Damon is sent to warn a neighbouring household where to gather safely. But excited reports of victory tempt him to carry a grander message: all danger is over. With his friend Myron, he must get the original warning through without turning rumour into reassurance.
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Adventure 49 · What Makes a Civilisation?
Aboard a Bronze Age trading ship, Abdi secretly pockets a beautiful piece of blue glass and leaves damaged packing unreported. When rough seas shift the heavy cargo, he knows where the trouble began. He must tell the captain what he saw before the load moves again.
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Adventure 50 · What Makes a Civilisation?
At Giza, Seneb longs to work beside the great stones instead of carrying supplies. But when a load stalls and a worker becomes exhausted, he and Meret discover the missing water delivery. Helping the builders means leaving his prized view and finding what the crew actually needs.
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