Episode Details

Ben Faulks started with a street theatre act, turned it into a beloved CBeebies series, and has spent his career since finding new ways to nurture curiosity and imagination in children — including getting them to grow things.

Ben Faulks is a British actor, presenter, and author best known for creating and portraying Mr Bloom in the CBeebies series Mr Bloom's Nursery, with a background in theatre and a career spanning television, stage, and children's literature.

• How a street theatre act gradually grew into Mr Bloom's Nursery
• The world of pantomime and life on stage — and what performing live for children teaches you that nothing else does
• The Let's Grow initiative — how blending nature with imaginative play supports children's learning in ways that feel genuinely radical
• How storytelling changes when you're writing for younger audiences — the constraints, the freedoms, and the responsibility
• What a career built around nurturing creativity and imagination in children gives back to the person doing it

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• Instagram
• Let's Grow

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