Yukee

Hiccups

When Toad finds himself with a case of puddle hiccups, it's up to Yukee and the rest of the garden gang to find a cure.

Stick in the Mud

It's been raining, and Toad is resisting the urge to join in with Yukee and her friends' game of musical mud-squelching. However, he can't resist the muddy beat and is soon squelching with his friends.

Worm Chorus

Yukee is desperate to meet the worms that live in the soil beneath the garden. Learning that they only come out when it rains, Yukee tries to simulate the sound before realising that it's the rhythm that the worms really love.

Rain Rain Come and Play

As everyone huddles in Sonny's caravan during a storm, Toad admits he's frightened of the sound. Can Yukee find a way to use the pitter-pitter-pitter-patter of the rain to calm him?

The Music Box

Sonny thinks he has found a box of broken junk, but it actually contains parts of something very special. Can Yukee and her friends put all the pieces back together again?

Perfect Present

Everyone's bringing presents to the opening of Twinkle's zen garden, and Yukee wants to take something too. But when she can't find anything, they encourage her to sing her frustration. Yukee realises that she might have the perfect present after all.

Sound of Silence

Yukee enjoys the peace and quiet in the garden when she wakes up early. But she soon discovers that while it might be quiet, the garden's never silent.

The Pop Ups

Stripes's attempts to write a song about his love for the Sunhouse are interrupted by the rest of the gang. Can Yukee find a way to help him finish his song?

Xylophone Mystery

Stripes has borrowed Twinkle's xylophone, but he's lost it - and right before her performance! The gang race around the garden, listening for clues. But will they find it in time?

Earning Your Stripes

A samba band is coming to play, and everyone is helping to prepare. Stripes is so busy that he's forgotten one thing - to book the band! With no band coming, all seems lost, until Yukee and Stripes realise the Sunhouse already has its own brilliant band!

Slow Down TapTap

TapTap's loud, fast drumming is driving everyone in the garden to distraction. Can Yukee and Twinkle find a way to show TapTap that fast doesn't necessarily have to mean loud?

Fortune Cookies

Yukee's garden pals think the fortune cookie messages she has given them are going to come true! How can Yukee tell them they're just for fun and not going to happen? Or are they?

Code Crackers

Sonny finds an old musical safe, which only opens with the right musical code. With Yukee's help, Sonny tries every tune he can think of, but none opens the box – until the answer appears in a very unexpected place!

Lost and Found

Stripes has written a brilliant song, but his guitar string is broken, so he can't play it. Yukee decides to surprise Stripes by enlisting his garden friends to sing the song to him. The trouble is, they can't find the right pitch to sing the song in!

Top of the Pots

Sonny and Yukee are distracted by the amazing musical properties of a pile of old salvaged pots. Unfortunately, Sonny has promised some of the pots to Twinkle, who becomes increasingly impatient while Sonny and Yukee play!

Yee Haa!

When Sonny finds an old line-dancing record, Yukee thinks it would be a mighty swell idea if the gang had a line dance in the Sunhouse. But when remembering the moves proves a problem for the gang, can Yukee find a way to help them?

Fly Away Feathers

When a touring musical pigeon lands in the garden, the poor bird finds he has lost his flying beat. Yukee and the garden gang help Feathers find the right wing-flapping beat to get back in the air.

Staying Up Late

The garden gang are intrigued when Yukee says she's going to stay up late with them so that she can show them the Man in the Moon. But will they all be able to stay awake long enough to see him?

All Change

Yukee is struggling with a tune on her ukulele, so she tells her friends she's going to give it up. When Twinkle agrees that Yukee should try a new instrument, Yukee realises that sometimes a struggle comes before success.

Chrysalis Creche

TapTap becomes very protective when strange eggs appear in the branches of her tree, so everyone helps keep the garden nice and quiet. TapTap is amazed to find that her eggs are in fact chrysalises, from which some beautiful musical butterflies emerge!

Showdown on the Sundial Stage

When Rock Night is double booked, everyone's beloved Sundial Stage quickly becomes a crowded and noisy place to be. It's up to Yukee to help her friends rediscover that things sound better when everyone plays together.

Jumbled Up

When Yukee is asked to carry several messages across the garden to Sonny, she comes up with a clever rhyming song to help her remember them all.

Play with Your Food

Toad needs a new pumpkin double bass. Yukee and Twinkle use vegetables from the veggie patch to create some surprising instruments – but none are quite right for Toad. Can some new pumpkins be found, or will Toad be leaving music behind forever?

Bath Ahoy

Sonny can't fit a rescued old tin bath into his caravan. Can TapTap find an unexpected use for it?

Daffodil Day

It's the first day of spring, so it's time for the traditional march round the garden to greet the daffodils. But none of the gang can remember the right tempo to march to. Can Yukee find a way to get them all marching in time?

Slime Sisters

When the sensational singing snail sisters take a wrong direction and end up in the garden, Sonny offers to take them where they need to go. As a thank you, they give a special concert.

Recycling Rhapsody

When the recycling gets blown over in the wind and scattered across the garden, Yukee and the gang not only pick it all up again but also discover that some recycled materials can have musical uses too.

The New Sunhouse

Stripes has big ideas about how to transform the Sunhouse into a bigger, more popular music venue. When his plans don't go down well with the rest of the garden gang, Stripes must learn that their garden and stage are perfect just as they are!

The Fly Past

It's the day the geese fly over on their annual migration south. When Sonny reports that geese put on an amazing display if you mimic their calls, the gang look for the right sound to get a response from the geese before they fly past!

Radio Stripes

Yukee and Stripes set up their own garden radio station but struggle to find music that keeps their audience happy.

You Can Do It Yukee

When a radio station decides to broadcast from Yukee's garden, she finds herself with an unexpected guest spot.

Water Music

Sonny organises a tea party in his caravan to show off his new musical instrument, but rain comes pouring through his leaky roof. Are his plans for a musical afternoon a washout or can the gang find another use for all those rain-filled bottles?

Skip Skip Hurray

When Rapper Bushy T visits the garden, can his hip-hop beats help poor Stripes master Yukee's skipping rope and join in the fun?

A Game of Crickets

Yukee and TapTap try to track down the source of a strange chirping noise in the garden.

Sunrise

Stripes and Toad see a beautiful sunrise and decide to write a song about it together. But Stripes wants the song to be rocky, while Toad wants it to be slower. They fall out and go off to write their own songs separately. Can Yukee help them become friends again and create one song together?

Two Frogs And The Toad

When Yukee's Garden plays host to Ray and Eazy, the Jazz Frogs, Toad discovers he has had an unlikely influence over their visitors.

The Sunflower and the Bee

When a bee interrupts the gang's sunflower-growing contest, the results are unexpectedly musical!

Cleo Nibbles

A famous soul singer is coming to perform in the garden, but no one knows what they look like. Meanwhile, a cheeky little mouse with a great big voice has appeared in the Sunhouse.

March of the Ants

Twinkle discovers an army of marching ants taking seeds from her vegetable garden. When all attempts to stop them fail, can she and Yukee find a way to get the ants marching to a different beat and away from her garden?

Snowbells

It's been snowing in the garden, and Yukee helps Sonny find uses for a large collection of recycled bells.

Like Clockwork

When Yukee's precious clockwork music box breaks, her garden friends cheer her up with a life-size clockwork performance of their own.

The Piano

Without her ukulele, Yukee struggles to come up with a tune for the words she wrote for a new song. Can the piano Sonny and Paulie the peacock bring to the Sunhouse be the answer?

Yukee's First Camp Out

Yukee and TapTap spend the night in a tent and are surprised to meet some beautiful, musical fireflies!

The Song of the Garden

Yukee's bouncing ball sets off a musical chain of events without anyone saying a word!

Feels Like Thunder

TapTap's sister, TipTop, comes for a visit and amazes Yukee with her drumming skills. She is deaf, yet she drums just as well as TapTap. With TipTop's help, Yukee learns how to feel the music.

A Day in the Life

Yukee's garden friends help turn her ‘a day in my life' homework assignment into an exciting, musical sound adventure.

Hoops Van Badger

Stripes worries that the Sundial Stage isn't loud enough when his guitar hero comes to play a gig. With Yukee's help, Stripes is determined to turn the volume up to 11... but is that too loud?

Snowbiz

It's been snowing, and Yukee and her garden friends use music and beat to build a big snow band.

Noisy Neighbours

The builders are making so much noise that Yukee and her friends can't hear themselves play their instruments! Instead of trying to drown out the sound, what if they played along with it instead...?

Frida Mouse

Yukee discovers a little mouse who is lost in the woods. Might a musical song map help Frida find her way back home and never get lost again?

The Beat in Your Feet

The garden gang compete in a three-legged race. Stripes struggles until he finds his three-legged rhythm.

Four Seasons

Happy New Year! Yukee is excited and imagines all the fun and adventures she and her garden gang will have this spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The show is a series about the sheer joy of making a noise with friends and reminds us that ‘music is for everyone', as well as having themes of community, friendship, and cooperation at its heart. Yukee offers young audiences a gentle, child-centred introduction to music education and exposes them to simple, yet fundamental musical concepts that will form a strong foundation for lifelong learning and enjoyment of music - beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, timbre, form, dynamics, expression and style.Yukee herself is of Northern Ireland and Chinese heritage - and in every episode takes her own beloved red ukulele into a magical garden filled with instrument playing animal friends. Music adventures are never far away, and song ideas can come from anywhere in the garden - be it the rhythmic pitter patter of raindrops, or a gang of passing ants stomping their tiny feet to a steady beat.

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