Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Storyteller.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/23/2000 The Storyteller Transcript If you thought there was a familiar look to last month’s television movie of the Arabian Nights, you’d be right. The dazzling special effects were the work of the Henson studios that were founded by the late Jim Henson and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barbara-Cooney.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/13/2000 Barbara Cooney Transcript This past March we lost one of the remarkable, gentle voices in modern American children’s books–the writer and artist Barbara Cooney, who died at the age of 83, after having published over a hundred books, many of them prize-winning works, […]
That’s Angela Coin, belting out part of the familiar title song for the 1981 Broadway version of Maurice Sendak’s “Really Rosie,” set to Carole King’s music.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dalai-Lamas-Birthday.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/6/2000 Dalai Lama Transcript Few cultures have depended so fervently and completely on the discovery of a miracle child as that of traditional Tibet, before the Chinese conquest. The fourteenth Dalai Lama, whose birthday it is today, is one of a long line of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dinosaur.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/5/2000 Dinosaur Transcript School’s almost over for the year, and when it is, it’ll be impossible for you to put off a visit to the local multiplex with your children for Walt Disney’s latest animation extravaganza, Dinosaur, if they haven’t already had you take […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Aida.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/2/2000 Aida Transcript Before Aida became a Disney musical on Broadway this spring, it was, of course, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi; and before it becomes a Disney cartoon (which shouldn’t be too far away), you might want to have your children hear the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Muse-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/1/2000 Muse Magazine Transcript Muse magazine is one of the real treasures to be found for children at your local newstand, where it serenely waits for them in the midst of the blaring mass of magazines that are more interested in selling kids on […]
Those are the eight-year-old Dionne Quintuplets, singing for a Canadian war bond drive in 1942.
We’re speaking today with Eric Dawson, who is the executive director of Peace Games, an innovative program that educates young people in schools in Boston and Cambridge, and soon throughout the country, about ways to seek peaceful resolutions to the conflicts they encounter throughout their lives.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barishnikovs-Favorites.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/19/2000 Barishnikov’s Favorites Transcript There’s a series of 13 animated films for children called “Stories from My Childhood,” that is available on video tape and DVD. The collection of films is hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and it’s based on a program that’s run on […]