Inventor’s Day: Benjamin Franklin’s Almanac

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Intventors-Day-Benjamin-Franklins-Almanac-Book-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/10/2004 Inventor’s Day: Benjamin Franklin’s Almanac Transcript Ben Franklin was an American original — a self-taught popular writer, a political and social philosopher, a skilled politician and statesman, an entrepreneur, and, of course, an inventor. It’s Inventor’s Day tomorrow, and there are few other […]

My Brother Martin

That’s Kim and Reggie Harris, with their song in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Child’s Christmas in Wales

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Childs-Christmas-in-Wales.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 12/25/2003 A Child’s Christmas in Wales Transcript Though it’s a small country, many Christmas holiday traditions have their origins in Wales. For instance, some musicologists believe one of the most joyful and exuberant carols, “Deck the Halls” to be of Welsh origin. Caroling fits […]

Warbling Through the Holidays

That’s the Montreal Ornithological Orchestra with a chorus of goldfinches, geese, cuckoos, crows, larks, loons, orioles, robins, swallows, tanagers, and turtle doves with a version of an old holiday favorite that’s sure to put a chirp in your step.

Santa and the Airship

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Christmas-Mistake.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/5/2003 Santa and the Airship Transcript For hundreds of years, the fastest most efficient way to get around in the winter was the sleigh and for hundreds of years Santa has depended on a sleigh to get toys to all the good boys and […]

History and Thanksgiving

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/History-and-Thanksgiving-.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 11/27/2003 History and Thanksgiving Transcript As we celebrate Thanksgiving it’s difficult to imagine what that first celebration was like for the Allertons, Hopkinses, and other families who broke bread together on that autumn day nearly four hundred years ago. How do we even know […]

Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghost Stories

Unless you’re of a certain (young) age, you probably don’t remember that the great English film director, Alfred Hitchcock had, for a time, something of a corner on the market for mystery.

Diwali-Festival of Lights

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Diwali-the-Festival-of-Light.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 10/27/2003 Colorful clay diya lamps lit during diwali celebration. Diwali-Festival of Lights Transcript There is light, light, light all around you during the Indian festival ‘Diwali’, which roughly translates into English as the ‘Festival of Lights’. Outdoors, children draw designs in the air with […]

Teen Read Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-1-2.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 10/22/2003 Teen Read Week Transcript This is Teen Read Week and many groups are celebrating with this year’s theme, “Slammin’@ your Library.” In its sixth year, this program is sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association, and it’s […]

Good Manners Month

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Good-Manners-Month-2.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/26/2003 Good Manners Month Transcript Most parents have rules, rules, and more rules for just how they want their children to behave and they often have cruel little stories, known as cautionary tales, that go along with the rules showing exactly what will happen […]

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