Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Passover.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/6/2001 Books for Passover Transcript That’s Sarah Jessica Parker playing a roving reporter, and a young friend with the right answer to the all-important question that’s asked during the Passover Seder, from Shalom Sesame’s Passover video. Along with nearly a dozen other videos available […]
That’s John McCutcheon with a little of “April Fool,” from his splendid recording, “SpringSongs,” from Rounder Records.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hans-Christian-Anderson-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/2/2001 Hans Christian Andersen Transcript It’s Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday today. He was born in the little Danish town of Odense, in 1805, the son of a washerwoman and a cobbler, the poorest of the poor in the town, though Andersen’s mother claimed that […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Youth-Art-Month-Van-Gogh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/29/2001 Van Gogh’s Birthday Transcript Yesterday was the anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday. The supremely difficult life of the Dutch painter — who was born in 1853 and died in 1890, when he was just 37 — has become inextricably linked with the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Happy-Birthday-to-Patty-Smith-Hill.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/27/2001 Patty Smith Hill and “Happy Birthday to You” Transcript We all know the song, and probably can’t remember when we first learned to it’s words. You’ll probably sing it a dozen times this year, at least, over cakes and cupcakes — in dining […]
Author John Cech Air Date 3/23/2001 Peter Sis’s Madlenka Transcript March is National Umbrella Month, a time, as Chase’s Calendar of Events tells us, that is “dedicated to the use of and conversation about” that most useful of implements. Though she isn’t talking about umbrellas, per se, the small heroine of Madlenka, the latest picture […]
That’s a little from the opening of the award-winning CD — Mr. Bach Comes to Call from “Classical Kids.”
That’s Rosie O’Donnell doing stand up in the baby ward for the other newborns, from her HBO special, “Kids are Punny.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nancy-Dowd.mp3 Author John Cech with Nancy Dowd Air Date 3/1/2001 Redefining Fatherhood Transcript Our guest today is Nancy Dowd, University Research Foundation Professor and Trustee Research Scholar at the University of Florida’s College of Law. Her new book (from New York University Press) is called Redefining Fatherhood, and in it […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mildred-Taylor.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 2/28/2001 Mildred Taylor Transcript That’s Cassie Logan, played by Lark Ruffin in the 1978 film version of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, telling us about her family and their struggles. The setting of Ms. Taylor’s novel, which won the […]