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Fireworks

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fireworks.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/4/2005 Fireworks Transcript It’s the Fourth of July, our national day of independence, and the holiday that’s most connected with fireworks — though we certainly aren’t limiting ourselves to just that day. We Americans will set off fireworks on almost any occasion, from birthdays […]

Tolkien Week, Symphonically

By any chance does this sound a little “hobbity” to you? It’s from the final movement, called “Hobbits,” of Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, which was inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and which premiered in 1988, some 30 years after the Ring books had been published.

C. S. Lewis

Today is the birthday of C. S. Lewis, and Kevin Shortsleeve has some thoughts about this famous British author.

Tolkien Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/tolkien.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/18/2001 Tolkien Week Transcript One important function of some of the best literature for children is to offer its readers an escape into other worlds. Many children, especially adolescents confronted for the first time with mundane or cruel realities of the adult world enjoy […]

J. R. R. Tolkien

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/JRR-Tolkien.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/3/2001 J. R. R. Tolkien Transcript A recent poll of 25,000 avid readers in the United Kingdom voted The Lord of the Rings the Number One Book of the Century. Yet, it may surprise you to learn how narrowly this trilogy was saved from […]