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Two One Thousand

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Two-One-Thousand.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/30/2007 Two One Thousand Transcript If we were counting like we used to do for tag, today we would have reached that milestone: two one thousand — shows, that is. When we began producing Recess! seven years ago, we didn’t know if we would still be […]

Rockabye Baby!

That’s Michael Armstrong performing a glockenspiel, mellotron, and vibraphone version of the Eagle’s famous “Hotel California,” on a new series of CDs called Rockabye Baby! from Baby Rock Records.

Pulling the Strings

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pulling-the-Strings.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/26/2007 Pulling the Strings Transcript Tomorrow is National Puppetry Day, and though we don’t think about it much at all, a puppet has probably played an important role in our lives — especially our young lives. Several generations of American children have grown up […]

Young Andersen

This is the melancholy first notes for Young Andersen, a new film from Denmark about the teenage years of Hans Christian Andersen, who was born this week in 1805.

Jane Goodall’s “Roots and Shoots”

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jane-Goodalls-Roots-and-Shoots.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/27/2007 Jane Goodall’s “Roots and Shoots” Transcript You could say that Jane Goodall’s great adventure began in 1936 when she was two years old, and her father gave her a stuffed animal — a chimpanzee named Jubilee after a real […]

Bright Spaces 2

That’s Jerry Garcia and David Grisman with their nonsense song, “Hopalong Peter.” It’s on a new CD called Bright Spaces 2, a compilation of songs from growing artists who are redeveloping that new/old genre that’s called family music.

“Spring Awakenings”

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-Awakenings.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/21/2007 Spring Awakenings Transcript Spring arrives today and, with it, all sorts of stirrings. One of them is a new production of an 1891 play by the German dramatist, Frank Wedekind. It’s called Spring Awakenings, and it’s about a group of teenagers who are coming […]