Who Invented Music? With Jack Savoretti. Why do Armadillos have little Heads and Big Bottoms? How Do Mermaids Wee?

Hello and welcome to 54th episode of Everything Under the Sun, a weekly podcast answering all the most pressing questions children around the world have about life on earth. My name is Molly and today I have three questions! They’re about armadillos, music and mermaids!   Our first question comes from Wolf, who lives in Paraguay! He sent me a photo of an armadillo he saw on holiday in Uruguay and asked me a question about these curious creatures! It is... Why do armadillos have little heads and big bottoms? Find out all about the different armadillos from Pink Fairy armadillos to screaming ones and giant ones! Our next question is about music and it comes from from Rose, she would like to know, who invented music!  To answer Rose's lovely question I have Jack Savoretti who is a wonderful musician – his new album Singing to Strangers has songs he wrote along with with Bob Dylan and Kylie Minogue! He's got an answer he came up with alongside his musical director about where they think music came from. Our third question is from Alice, it’s about mermaids...her question is how do mermaids wee?   I have a good guess, based on how fish wee and we discover how fish pee makes things in the ocean grow. I wonder what creatures would be able to make use of mermaid pee?    So that’s our three questions! Wishing you all a very lovely week! A huge thank you to the wonderful Jack Savoretti and Shannon Harris for talking to us about music and of course a big thank you to Rose, Wolf and Alice for this week’s questions!   I’ll be back next week answering more questions from children around the world in another episode of EUTS!  If you like the show people do rate, review and subscribe and tell all your friends to do the same, it really does help!  If you want to send me a question just record it and send it into me at molly@everythingunderthesun.co.uk Thank you and GOODBYE! X For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Children are full of curiosity and questions about the world. Each Friday, join Molly Oldfield, write of the weekly kids quiz in the Guardian each Saturday, the original QI elf and author and host of Everything Under The Sun (both the book and podcast) as she answers questions sent in by children around the world with the help of experts including Neil Gaiman, Heston Blumenthal, Grayson Perry, Lauren Child, Richard Branson and Sophie Dahl to the fish curators at the Natural History Museum. If you're a kid - big or small - with questions you want answered or if you want to learn interesting facts about life on earth, this is the award winning podcast for you. Do check out Everything Under The Sun - a curious question for every day of the year, published by Ladybird books now!