Nia's Extra Ordinary Life - Series One

Heavy on imagination and creativity and very cute.

– Listener critic Fiona Rae, 5 June 2014

I had no one to swap lunch with: Dad put leftover mussels in bread with tomato sauce. Yuck!

– Nia (Shania Gilmour), in episode 2

Have you ever felt little? I mean really little? Tiny, like you've been reduced to the size of a bug, and you could be squished at any second.

– Nia (Shania Gilmour), in episode 5

Have you ever had one of those days where you did something you regret, but there's not really any way of taking it back? That's how I feel right now. I wish I could just go back in time.

– Nia (Shania Gilmour), in episode 6

What do you get when you put bugs and bees on a rugby ball? A bugby ball!

– Nia (Shania Gilmour), in episode 8

Maybe it's a good thing we can feel pain, because then we can get to feel all the funny feelings too.

– Nia (Shania Gilmour), in episode 9

Hang on a sec, I feel an idea starting to form. Okay guys, I'm going to need your help.

– Nia (Shania Gilmour), in episode 11

You know what? Boys think they're tough, but I don't reckon they are. I think they're kinda like kina: with big spikes on the outside, and then when you crack their shell, they're soft and yellow on the inside.

– Nia (Shania Gilmour), at the start of episode 3

As long as somebody is there to stand up for others, it doesn't matter who does it first.

– Nia (Shania Gilmour) talks bullying, in episode 4

I'm not going to write anything today! If I don't write it, then maybe it never happened.

– Nia (Shania Gilmour)