Tag: Hans Christian Andersen
Young Andersen
This is the melancholy first notes for Young Andersen, a new film from Denmark about the teenage years of Hans Christian Andersen, who was born this week in 1805.
Hans Christian Andersen
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hans-Christian-Anderson-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/2/2001 Hans Christian Andersen Transcript It’s Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday today. He was born in the little Danish town of Odense, in 1805, the son of a washerwoman and a cobbler, the poorest of the poor in the town, though Andersen’s mother claimed that […]
The Yellow Star
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Yellow-Star.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/1/2000 The Yellow Star Transcript Hans Christian Andersen’s first book of fairy tales was published today in 1835, and Andersen has since become a Danish national hero. But there is another Danish hero whom many of us haven’t heard about – the Dane’s beloved […]
Danny Kaye
That’s the opening to one of Danny Kaye’s best-known songs from the 1952 movie in which Kaye starred as the 19th Danish storyteller.
Hans Christian Andersen First Book of Fairy Tales
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hans-Andersen.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/30/1999 Hans Christian Andersen Transcript Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the publication in 1835 of the first volume of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Told for Children. Andersen called it his first booklet; in it were “The Tinderbox,” “Little Claus and Big Claus,” “The […]