Tag: Charles Dickens
Christmas Stories
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rereading-Holiday-Stories.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 12/12/2006 Christmas Stories Transcript As someone who has always wanted “just one more story,”I spend a great deal of time each year reading books that are new — at least to me. But, every December, I immerse myself once again in a collection of […]
The Unlikely Heroes of Christmas
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Unlikely-Heroes-of-Christmas.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/17/2002 The Unlikely Heroes of Christmas Transcript Christmas traditions and holiday festivities have long been associated with words like Merry, Joy, and Celebration. The word Looser, however, hardly comes to mind when thinking of one’s favorite Christmas Carols. The truth is, though, that one […]
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 […]
Freddie Bartholomew, Child Star
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Freddie-Bartholomew.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/28/2000 Freddie Bartholomew Transcript One of the great child stars of the 1930s, Freddie Bartholomew, was born today in London in 1924. He had a glowing presence, cherubic good looks and a natural gift for acting–something his Aunt Cissie noticed right away. She became […]