New Year’s Resolutions
While most New Year’s resolutions are quickly forgotten, Shelley Fraser Mickle is remembering hers.
The Perfect Gift
It’s Christmas Day, and Shelley Fraser Mickle reminds us that some of the most precious gifts we can give are the ones that don’t cost anything.
Dickens’s Other Christmas Carols
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dickens-Christmas-Carosl.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/24/2001 Dickens’s Other Christmas Carols Transcript Charles Dickens is intimately associated with our ideas of Christmas through his novels and through a series of books which have become known as the Christmas Books. The first of them, the familiar A Christmas Carol, was written […]
Videos for the Stocking
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Videos-for-the-Stocking.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 12/20/2001 Videos for the Stocking Transcript One of the hottest new programs on cable television this year is the English children’s program, “Bob the Builder,” which is currently airing on Nickelodeon. Each of the shows features Bob, who runs a […]
Books, Books, Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-Books-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/17/2001 Books, Books, Books Transcript This holiday season, I’m giving books of poetry as presents for everyone. After the events of September 11th, we have turned to poetry (or perhaps I should say we have returned to poetry) because it is the literary form […]
Johnny Marks
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johnny-Marks.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/13/2001 Johnny Marks Transcript Christmas music, as we know it, would not be the same were it not for songwriter, Johnny Marks. His Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and other Christmas hits have become the audio equivalent to Christmas stockings and candy canes. Born […]
A Child’s Hanukkah
That’s the traditional Hasidic song, “In the Window,” each of the verses of which represent the lighting of one of candles for the eight days of Hanukkah, the Jewish Feast of Light, which begins today.
Unlikely Origins of Popular Toys
With the holidays approaching, Kevin Shortsleeve has been looking at toys and some of the unlikely origins of our favorite playthings.
Videos to Keep You from the Multiplex
It’s the biggest shopping day of the year, and John Cech has some film recommendations for those who prefer to avoid the traffic and stay close to home.
Thanksgiving Games
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thanksgiving-Games-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 11/22/2001 Thanksgiving Games Transcript As a child, Thanksgiving was the one day in the year when my entire family would play games together. On other holidays, we were together, but with a family as large as mine, – eight children two parents – and […]