Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Toy-Theaters.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 12/30/2004 Toy Theaters Transcript More than a century before there were video games, there were toy theaters — small stages made from paper where children and adults could act out plays of their own invention, or dramas based on existing plays that were published […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Ciardi-The-Man-Who-Sang-the-Sillies.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/25/2001 John Ciardi Transcript “Once long ago in a far away beginning ‘by the sea’ In, of course, a kingdom, one fine day With (why not?) A lark in a tree (Yes all the poems I ever see Put all their larks in the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Gorey-1-1.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/23/2001 The Afterlife of Edward Gorey Transcript Edward Gorey confessed that he was afraid of being remembered only as a morbid Charles Adams type. In life, Gorey was much more than that – a voracious reader who could speak with authority on any number […]
That music, from one of PBS’s longest-running and most popular series, “Mystery,” is accompanied by highly stylized drawings of fainting Edwardian dowagers and ingenues and their languid beaus, barely escaping the peculiar accidents occurring around them at their haunted garden party.