Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy
We’re in a Potter lull right now, but John Cech has a recommendation for a new fantasy series to tide children over.
Teacher’s Pet
When was the last morning you heard a Saturday morning cartoon open with background music from Leo Delibes’s opera Lakme?
The Yellow Star
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Yellow-Star.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/1/2000 The Yellow Star Transcript Hans Christian Andersen’s first book of fairy tales was published today in 1835, and Andersen has since become a Danish national hero. But there is another Danish hero whom many of us haven’t heard about – the Dane’s beloved […]
Stop the Violence Day
It’s National Stop the Violence Day, and John Cech is here to discuss the violence – real and imaginary – that seeps into the lives of our children.
Daniel Boone
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Daniel-Boone.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/2/2000 Daniel Boone Transcript It’s the birthday tomorrow of one of the major, mythological presences of American culture, Daniel Boone — pioneer, woodsman, hunter, colonizer. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1734, and in a life that spanned 86 years — a remarkable feat […]
William Woodruff: The Book of Knowledge
Today, John Cech interviews William Woodruff, professor emeritus of history and economics at the University of Florida, and the author of dozens of books and articles, including this selection about the book that mattered most to him in his life. It’s from his autobiography, The Road to Nab End, which is on the nonfiction bestseller list in England, where it is being hailed as a “masterpiece” and “an English Angela’s Ashes.”
Halloween Music
It’s Halloween tonight, and if this ancient holiday is just your cup of tea and sack of candy corn, you might be interested to hear that there’s an entire CD of Halloween music waiting for your trick or treaters.
Rebel Without a Cause
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rebel-Without-a-Cause.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/27/2000 Rebel Without a Cause Transcript It begins with a siren wailing, which is joined by another wail, a teenager’s drunken imitation of the siren that soon becomes a cry for help. It’s the anniversary this month of the premier, in 1955, of one […]
Dumbo Premier
That’s the voice of Sterling Holloway (who later would play Winnie-the-Pooh) here as the stork who’s delivering a big bundle of joy to Mrs. Jumbo on the circus train. Today’s the birthday of Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” which had its premier in 1941.