“Yamba’s Playtime” has been in production for sixteen years. Yamba’s Playtime is a 30 minute variety style program for children and includes music, song, dance, stories and tales about activities in the life of ‘Yamba the Yerrampe’ (honeyant). It is produced and aired by Imparja Television and is seen in a huge geographical area in the remote and regional areas of the NT, Qld, NSW, SA, Vic and Tasmania.
In February 2009, Yamba’s Playtime was granted a P Classification (Preschool Classification) for a brand new series. Many developments have been made to the program to obtain this classification. A major change was to give Yamba a speaking and singing voice to enable more effective communication with the audience.
Yamba the Honeyant is a "Yerrampe", a honeyant from Central Australia, who has a best friend Jacinta. Yamba has many friends, but doesn't seem to know about the odd sock characters, Chabba and Flopp, who live in the sock drawers.
Yamba is very curious and loves to learn, is active and energetic, friendly and outgoing. Other characters on the new show include Grandpa and Grandma Honeyant, Cecilina the Ballerina (Yamba's big sister) and Miss Honeypot (Cecilina’s ballet teacher).
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