Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Keep-the-Books-Even-Though-Theyre-Movies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/16/2004 Keep the Books, Even Though They’re Movies Transcript One of the joys of reading any book, especially when we’re children, is that we can imagine how Charlotte the spider speaks, what aromas are filling Middle Earth, the slant of light in Wonderland, or […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Earth-Balloon.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/12/2004 Earth Balloon Transcript Several months ago, at the annual Public Radio Conference, I had a remarkable experience. I walked inside the Earth. Well, it was actually inside an inflated version of our world called the Earth Balloon, which was filled with air and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Center-for-Disease-Controls-Cards-for-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/10/2004 CDC’s Playing Cards for Kids Transcript Emails from listeners have brought us very interesting ideas for stories over the years that we’ve been on the air, but none quite as unexpected as this. We recently received a link to the Center for Disease […]
That’s Archie Bell and the Drells, asking everyone to “Tighten Up”. It’s National Drum Month, and a good time for some music for kids that has a real beat to it.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/King-Tuts-Wonderful-Things.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/5/2004 King Tutankhamen Transcript In early November of 1922, Howard Carter, made one of the most famous discoveries in archaeological history, that of the tomb of the boy king, Tutankhamen. As Carter peered through the small opening he and his crew had dug, into […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Urban-Lit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/2/2004 Urban Lit. for Kids: Interview with Carol Faas Transcript We spoke earlier this fall with Carol Faas, the media specialist at one of the local high schools in our city, who has found herself adding some unusual new books to her library — […]
That’s Dan Zanes with a campaign song for Abraham Lincoln from the 1860 presidential race. It’s on a new CD called Parades and Panoramas.
That’s Montserrat Figueras singing the Berber lullaby, “Amazigh,” from an amazing recording of ancient and modern cradle songs called Ninna Nanna.
That’s the opening from The Magic Lion, an animated film by Charles Githinji, from the National Film Board of Canada, which has a long tradition of producing some of the most original animated movies in recent times.
You’re hearing the opening for the Weston Woods animated film version of Crockett Johnson’s well-known 1955 children’s book, Harold and the Purple Crayon.