{"id":167,"date":"2010-08-03T22:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowyouknowabout.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2015-09-06T18:14:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T18:14:38","slug":"anyone-going-on-a-long-car-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Anyone going on a long car journey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s my list of things to listen to in the car, whizzing along the motorway, stuck in a traffic jam or just waiting for the lights to change.\u00a0 All of them\u00a0are cunningly disguised as fun and entertaining while being packed with learning and knowledge.\u00a0 As I said once before, the car is your best learning tool &#8211; for you and the kids.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horrible Histories \u2013 audio CDs are fantastic for in-car family laughs on long journeys.\u00a0 Very good are Measly Middle Ages, Rotten Romans, Vicious Vikings.\u00a0 Excellent BBC production values and very funny sound effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beethovenswig.com\/\">Beethoven\u2019s Wig<\/a> \u2013 another good one for long car journeys.\u00a0 This company takes the most famous bits of classic music and sets them to ridiculous lyrics so that Beethoven\u2019s 5<sup>th<\/sup>, for example, starts with \u2018Beethoven\u2019s wig is very big\u2026..\u2019 you have to listen to get the idea, I think.\u00a0\u00a0Funny and clever. \u00a0 Now my children (12 and 10) can sing along to just about any classical \u2018hit\u2019 on the radio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naxosaudiobooks.com\/juniorclassics.htm \">Naxos Junior Classics CDs<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 I hate to admit it but to be honest, the books of\u00a0\u00a0these great works of literature can be a bit long and boring but the Greek Legends are great and King Arthur is very good too.\u00a0 Only really suitable for children 12 and up but interesting for the driver as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post up some TV and book favourites shortly that combine entertainment with interesting and useful knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Bonne route!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s my list of things to listen to in the car, whizzing along the motorway, stuck in a traffic jam or just waiting for the lights to change.\u00a0 All of them\u00a0are cunningly disguised as fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=167\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anyone going on a long car journey? 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