Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Goldings-Lord-of-the-Flies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/19/2000 William Golding Transcript Almost fifty years before “Survivor,” William Golding’s disturbing Lord of the Flies was published in 1954. It was much more reality-based and therefore much scarier than anything the networks might later fabricate for us. The novel was about what could […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicken-Little.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/14/2000 Chicken Little Transcript One hundred and sixty-six years ago this past weekend, a printer from Roxbury, Massachusetts, John Greene Chandler, made the biggest splash of his career with a little pamphlet entitled The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little. He probably distributed his version of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Boys.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/12/2000 Books for Boys Transcript There has been a wave of books and public discussions in recent years about the importance of raising less aggressive, more emotionally-centered boys. Boys whose values and actions will make us proud, as parents and as a society. One […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maria-Montessori.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/31/2000 Maria Montessori Transcript It’s Maria Montessori’s birthday today. She was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy; and by the time she was 26, she had become that country’s first female physician. Her treatment of mentally retarded children led her to study psychology, and […]
Here’s how we’re waking up at our house to start the new school year — with the Brazilian singer Nazare Pereira singing “Bonjour Pra Voce” — a good morning song that goes well with corn flakes or scrambled eggs — from a joyful CD called World Playground from Putumayo World Music.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bernsteins-Young-Peoples-Concerts.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/25/2000 Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Transcript In 1958, the American composer and conductor, the late Leonard Bernstein, whose birthday it is today, gave the first two in a series of popular televised performances for young people about the nature of music. In many ways, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/ODC.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/24/2000 ODC Transcript This is “Recess!” and this is John Cech. We’re talking about some of the things that are happening in the world of children’s culture. Brief sound clip It’s American Dance Week, and we attended a performance for young people by the […]
That’s the Alloy Orchestra from Cambridge, Massachussetts, providing the soundtrack for a new movie, “Dragonflies the Baby Cries,” a short, around ten minute, nearly silent film by Jane Gilooly about children and their magical, secret lives.
Here’s John Cech with some thoughts about the various media incarnations of Buster Brown.
That’s Woody Guthrie’s son, Arlo, singing his haunting “Hobo’s Lullaby” in honor of the National Hobo Convention, which takes place this week in Britt, Iowa.