Tag: Kevin Shortsleeve
H.G. Wells and My Mom
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/HG-Wells-and-My-Mom.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/30/2002 H.G. Wells and My Mom Transcript “We interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from Intercontinental Radio News. Twenty minutes before eight, Professor Farrell of the Mt. Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas […]
Evel Knievel & Boyhood’s Dreams
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Evel-Knievel-and-Boyhoods-Dreams.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/17/2002 Evel Knievel & Boyhood’s Dreams Transcript Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. There are war heroes, guitar heroes, super heroes and every day heroes. But there is one hero from my childhood who defies categorization-and he called himself Evel Knievel. Knievel was […]
John Lennon – Imagining
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Lennon-Imagining.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/9/2002 John Lennon – Imagining Transcript When John Lennon was 11 years old, he received a copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland as a birthday present. The surreal, nonsensical volume left a lasting impression on the young man. Lennon notes, “I was passionate about Alice in […]
Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Dinosaurs
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-Dinosaurs.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/4/2002 Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Dinosaurs Transcript In celebrating the birthday of Edgar R. Burroughs I have chosen to skip his most well-known creation, the jungle hero Tarzan, and celebrate instead, dinosaur fiction, a genre that Burroughs contributed to with his 1916 publication […]
The Jack Tales
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Everyman-of-Childhood-Jack.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/21/2002 The Jack Tales Transcript Everyone knows about Jack. For he is the most popular boy in children’s literature. From Jack Be Nimble to Jack and Jill. From Little Jack Horner to Jack Sprat. There’s Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk […]
William Goldman & The Princess Bride
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/William-Goldman-and-The-Princess-Bride.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/12/2002 William Goldman Transcript The Chicago Tribune once called William Goldman “Just about the biggest, the best, the most successful writer in movies today” and though his name may not be a household word, Goldman’s enormously popular screenplays include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance […]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marjorie-Kinnan-Rowlings-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/8/2002 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Transcript Certain writers are known for their sense of place. There is Mark Twain and his muddy brown, strolling, Mississippi River, or Jack London and his icy-white, bone chilling, north woods. Less prolific perhaps, but no less able to convey […]
William Hanna and the Hanna Barbera Story
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/William-Hanna-Yabba-Dabba-Do.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/29/2002 William Hanna and the Hanna Barbera Story Transcript Today we celebrate the birthday of William Hanna who, along with his partner, Joseph Barbera, formed the award winning partnership, Hanna Barbera which brought us some of the most popular cartoons ever produced for American […]
Yankee Doodle
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Yankee-Doodle.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/3/2002 Yankee Doodle Transcript Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony. Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni. If you think about it, it is a little bit odd that the unofficial American anthem is a nonsensical nursery rhyme. […]
George Orwell
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/George-Orwell.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/25/2002 George Orwell Transcript Works that overtly critique political theory have rarely been hailed as classics of children’s literature. An exception to that rule is George Orwell’s anti-totalitarian novel Animal Farm. An allegory of the Russian Revolution, the book tells the story of a […]