Of Fowls and Pants

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Of-Fowls-and-Pants-Summer-Novels.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/18/2003 Of Fowls and Pants Transcript It’s the middle of summer, and the new movies are out and your children and teenagers have already seen them — at least once; they’ve already read the new Harry Potter book — at least once; and you […]

Listen to the Storyteller

That’s Winton Marsalis with the opening from the story, “The Fiddler and the the Dancin’ Witch,” about a little boy named Simeon who’d rather play his father’s magic fiddle than almost anything else.

This Land is Your Land

You’re hearing Danny Glover reading from the Langston Hughes poem, “The Kids In School With Me.”

Happy Birthday Recess

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Recess-The-First-1000-Programs.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/30/2003 Happy Birthday Recess Transcript Today we’ve reached a milestone: one thousand shows! When we began producing “Recess!” four years ago, we didn’t know if we would still be around to jump for joy at crossing this magic line. The worlds of radio and […]

Little Happy Campers

That’s the title song for “Little Happy Campers, The Girl Scouts Greatest Hits,” volume 6, from Melinda Carroll and Legend Productions in Hawaii.

Superman Arrives in Metropolis

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Superman-Arrives.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/26/2003 Superman Arrives in Metropolis Transcript It’s one of those dreams that comic book aficionados have: opening up a long-forgotten trunk in a relative’s attic and finding a pristine, if slightly musty-smelling copy of “Action Comics” No. 1, for June 1938. The cover shows […]

African Playground

That’s the Ugandan singer, Samite, with the beginning of a song about a teenager who is starting feel like he should be leaving childish things and jumping up to manhood.

The Start of Summer Reading

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-the-Start-of-Summer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/16/2003 The Start of Summer Reading Transcript If you’re looking for books for young people that will help to fill the long summer days that are already with us, you might try a series of activity books for elementary school age children from Kids […]