Magic Hands
Magic Hands is a program for youth on CBeeBies. Poetry translated into British Sign Language for children. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 47 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2026.
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Asnath and Semhar are in Notting Hill, home of the famous Notting Hill Carnival, celebrating Caribbean culture.
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Bobbles and friends play games, run amok and feast on a delicious picnic in the forest whilst Aimee and Mia perform ‘The Teddy Bears' Picnic’.
Leapy goes back to school to learn the basics of education as Mae and Mia perform the Jackson 5’s ‘ABC’ in British Sign Language, accompanied by animations.
April 2026
Pink Bird and friends don their dancing shoes, top hats and canes to take the stage for a Magic Hands’ rendition of ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’.
Click Clack becomes a trainee kite pilot and learns how to navigate a kite as Aimee and Mia perform Mary Poppins’ ‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’ in British Sign Language.
Pink Bird runs wild in a department store, buying lots of beautiful things such as roses and copper kettles, in tribute to the Sound of Music’s ‘My Favourite Things’.
Pink Bird catches the tube to Tipperary as Mae and Nadeem perform a medley of war songs, in British Sign Language.
Pink Bird dons a pair of dancing shoes in the Magic Hands rendition of Wouldn’t It Be Loverly from My Fair Lady, performed by Mae and Aimee in British Sign Language.
Sheba boards a boat and sails the rocky seas in thunderous conditions to get to safety as Mia and Nadeem perform the traditional ‘The Skye Boat Song’.
Sheba transforms into a magical rainbow as Aimee and Mae perform the famous Over the Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz, in British Sign Language accompanied by animations.
Mae and Aimee teach Leapy how to put together a tune using simple notes mixed up as they perform the Sound of Music’s iconic song, ‘Do Re Mi’.
March 2026
Mae, Nadeem and Sheba ride a fun rollercoaster to explore the four corners of the world in a take on Aladdin’s ‘A Whole New World’, performed in British Sign Language.
Dixie transforms into a mouse and takes over a windmill. Mia and Aimee perform the traditional ‘A Windmill in Old Amsterdam’ in British Sign Language, accompanied by animations.
Aimee and Nadeem perform the traditional ‘My Grandfather’s Clock’ in British Sign Language, accompanied by animations of Bobbles dressed up as a grandfather clock.
Bobbles goes to the circus to see a man on a trapeze, but the man steals away Bobbles’ love. Mia and Nadeem perform Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze in British Sign Language.
Bobbles' true love has gone exploring - can they be happily reunited? Aimee and Nadeem perform ‘My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean’ in British Sign Language, accompanied by animations.
Click Clack and friends work together as they conquer a mountain. Mae and Mia perform Paul McCartney’s ‘We All Stand Together’ in British Sign Language, accompanied by animations.
Bobbles dons some waterproofs and takes to the streets to dance and splash about in the puddles, whilst Nadeem and Mae perform the iconic ‘Singin' in the Rain’.
Pink Bird takes to outer space to explore the dazzling stars and the planets as Mia and Nadeem perform A Million Dreams, from the Greatest Showman.
Black History Songs: 2. To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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Tianah and Semhar are on Blackfriars Bridge, where in the past black people have marched for equal rights. They are learning a new song by Nina Simone – To Be Young, Gifted and Black.