Tag: John Cech
Linda Brown You Are Not Alone
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Linda-Brown-You-Are-Not-Alone.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/17/2004 Linda Brown You Are Not Alone Transcript Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which legally ended segregation in the public schools of Topeka, Kansas, as well as the rest of the United […]
Even Kids Get the Blues
That’s 10-year-old Anneli Blume with a little from the title song from a new CD from Re-Bop Records, called Even Kids Get the Blues.
The Hubleys, a Family of Animators
That’s the opening from the animated film, Cockaboody, from the Hubley Studios of Canada.
Unrooted Childhoods; Memories of Growing Up Global
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Unrooted-Childhoods.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/10/2004 Unrooted Childhoods Transcript In their recent book, Unrooted Childhoods, Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel have collected a series of memoires about what they call “Growing Up Global.” Eidse and Sichel were inspired to gather this collection when they discovered — in trying to find […]
Mother’s Day, In Song From Africa
That’s the incomparable Floxie Bee the Hikosso Queen, with the beginning of one of the most popular songs from Nigeria, and indeed from all of Africa — “Sweet Mother.”
A Child’s Guide to Freud
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Childs-Guide-to-Freud.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/6/2004 A Child’s Guide to Freud Transcript “If you beat your Daddy at Chinese Checkers…call this Healthy Aggression. If he decides to get mad about this, call him Insecure. If he changes his mind and smiles, call him unstable. If you trip him on […]
Winsor McCay and His Fantastic Little Nemo
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Winsor-McCay.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/5/2004 Winsor McCay Transcript It’s Cartoon Art Appreciation Week, and the place to begin any reflections on the history of this most popular and unappreciated art form is with Winsor McCay. For several decades at the beginning of the twentieth century, McCay was one […]
Marbles
We’re talking marbles, and I’ve been studying up on them again in a terrific little volume called The Klutz Book of Marbles.
Beyond Silence
You’re hearing Lara, played by Tatjana Treib, the young heroine of Caroline Link’s amazing film, Beyond Silence, as she negotiates for her parents at the bank, where they are trying to get an early advance on an investment account.
Latin Playground
That’s the incomparable Mexican singer Lila Downs and friends with the chorus from a Mayan nonsense song, “Hanal Weech” (hah-nal weech) about a romance that won’t work because one of the couple thinks the other smells like an armadillo.