“Rainbow Tales”
Rainbow Tales and Rainbow Tales 2 features 28 stories from some of the world’s best storytellers. John Cech has our review.
The Childhood of the Highwaymen
That’s the African American artist, James Butler, talking about his early commitment to art on a documentary film by Julia D’Amico called The Highwaymen. Everyone has been talking about the Highwaymen in Florida for the past few years.
“Welcome to the World,” A Valentine for Newborns
You’re hearing the Baka Pygmie people from the forests of Cameroon with parents teaching their children a nursery rhyme about what the heart says.
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Dan Zanes and Friends — Rockin’ Children’s Music
That ‘s Dan Zanes and the Rocket Ship Singers with Frank Loesser’s old standard, “Bushel and a Peck” from the CD “Rocket Ship Beach.”
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Conjure Times: Black Magicians in American
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recessmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Conjure-Times-Black-Magicians-in-America.wav Author John Cech and Jim Haskins Air Date 2/5/2002 Black Magicians in American Transcript David Blaine, who has been called the “hip hop Houdini,” a young, and – according to his various descriptions of his ethnic origins, Puerto Rican, Italian, Russian, Jewish, African American – is one of the […]
Franz Schubert
You’re hearing a little from Franz Schubert’s “Noble Waltz” No. 4. The reason the recording is so grainy is because it’s a thin, small vinyl disc that was included in a pocket inside the back cover of a small, square picture book for children called A Little Schubert by M. B. Goffstein.
John McCuthcheon’s WinterSongs
That’s John McCutcheon singing about “New Boots” from his “Wintersongs,” CD.
Voices from the Past
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Voices-from-the-Past.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/25/2002 Voices from the Past Transcript I hadn’t thought about my own high school days in the late early 1960s for some time — in those days before Vietnam, before the cultural revolution, before everything, it seems, had begun to change and has kept […]
A. A. Milne’s Birthday
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-AA-Milne.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/18/2002 A. A. Milne’s Birthday Transcript It seems like we should be throwing some kind of party today, a big party with many jars of honey and Good Things To Eat, and cards inscribed with HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. […]
The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Pop-Up-Book-of-Nightmares.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/15/2002 The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares Pop-Up Book of Nightmares Transcript Not all children’s books are really for children. This may sound absurd, but if you take certain books, like the pop-up book, that are usually meant for kids, you’ll be surprised to find […]