Most people get that he’s adopted, but I’m pleased we are posing that question, even if we don’t explicitly answer it on the show,” he says. Whether it’s a road trip, a night under the stars, or a sleepover at a friend’s house, this blanket is the perfect companion for any adventure. When the squirrels step out of the clubhouse, anything might happen – they might go on some psychedelic trip up the river to the heart of darkness or they might skip dreamily through waving corn. Armstrong was brought in at an early stage to narrate, with the idea that his rich tones could create something similar to Lionel Jeffries’ character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Duggee endeavours to award them a badge at the end of each show, once they’ve been shown the ropes of a particular subject: “Well done, squirrels!

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Studio AKA’s Grant Orchard is the creator of Hey Duggee, and says his two energetic boys were key to the show’s framework: “I was always looking for things to do with them, and so I thought it would be great to have a show that would inform people about how to entertain rambunctious kids.Parents grappling with home schooling could turn to Science With Duggee on YouTube, which has now had 12. It would be disingenuous to say that we didn’t think about inclusivity, but we didn’t want to be preachy with it,” says Orchard. It is littered with pop-cultural references: Apocalypse Now, Donkey Kong and the Cure to name just three. was played on 6 Music and was at one point the subject of a campaign to help it reach Christmas No 1. It wrestles with some of life’s biggest philosophical questions, from the nature of existence to the meaning of art.

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And he was thrilled when his mum – a voracious reader – mentioned that a fictional character in one of her books had shoved her kids in front of Hey Duggee. I really liked the idea of this patrician, faintly military-sounding character having that huge capacity for warmth and affection. Its songs have been played on Newsnight, fans include Orbital – and the show’s storylines ask the big questions about art and life. People have said to me: ‘It’s clearly a show written for adults that kids also enjoy,’ which is not the case. Orchard says that some voice actors emerge sweating from the booth after putting their all into voicing the astonishing array of secondary characters in the show.Such is the crossover love for Hey Duggee that the BBC used a Hey Duggee Stay at Home Badge video as part of its lockdown awareness campaign; a Handwashing Badge video swiftly followed, and garnered 97,000 views in the first 24 hours. What makes it significantly better than it sounds on paper is the amount of love poured into it – from the acid-house-inspired music and smart visual gags to the hilarious regional accents of characters such as Chew Chew the Panda (whose sarf-east tones have been compared to those of Adele).