It’s National Children’s Book Week, and Shelley Fraser Mickle, one of the regular contributors to this program, is with us today to talk about her new book, The Turning Hour, which has just been published.
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That’s Roland Brival singing part of his “Creole Gypsy,” which was recently a hit song in France.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Reading-Out-Loud-Together.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/10/2001 Reading Out Loud, Together: An Interview with Mary Ann Paulin Transcript We spoke recently with Mary Ann Paulin, a public librarian from Marquette, Michigan, and the author of two books on the Creative Uses of Children’s Literature. Ms Paulin’s central concern is how […]
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Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nancy-Dowd.mp3 Author John Cech with Nancy Dowd Air Date 3/1/2001 Redefining Fatherhood Transcript Our guest today is Nancy Dowd, University Research Foundation Professor and Trustee Research Scholar at the University of Florida’s College of Law. Her new book (from New York University Press) is called Redefining Fatherhood, and in it […]
Today, John Cech interviews William Woodruff, professor emeritus of history and economics at the University of Florida, and the author of dozens of books and articles, including this selection about the book that mattered most to him in his life. It’s from his autobiography, The Road to Nab End, which is on the nonfiction bestseller list in England, where it is being hailed as a “masterpiece” and “an English Angela’s Ashes.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Leilani-Clarke.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/20/2000 Leilani Clarke Transcript Earlier this year, Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion radio program held a national contest for Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand. The winner of the competition was 12-year old Leilani Clarke from Welbourne, Florida, an easy morning’s drive through the […]
The green beans in New England are ready for harvesting. Time for another story from the late Princess Redwing, recorded in 1981, about the third Thanksgiving in the Native American calendar to give thanks for the green bean.
Today, we are talking with Gabriel Schwartzman, who at the time he accomplished it, was the youngest person to become an international Chess Grandmaster. He won the US Open Championship in 1996 and shared the title in 1999. He told me how chess began for him.
In our ongoing series about children’s books that have mattered to people throughout their lives, we asked Mary Ann Eaverly, a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Florida whose specialty is archaic Greek sculpture, about her favorite children’s book, Gene Stratton-Porter’s Freckles.
