Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/tolkien.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/18/2001 Tolkien Week Transcript One important function of some of the best literature for children is to offer its readers an escape into other worlds. Many children, especially adolescents confronted for the first time with mundane or cruel realities of the adult world enjoy […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jim-Hensen-and-The-Muppet-Show.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/13/2001 The Muppet Show Transcript As the creator of The Muppet Show, Jim Henson produced one of the most unlikely, unique and successful programs ever to be beamed into our living rooms. At the height of the show’s popularity, the program was watched by […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Captain-Kidds-Treasure.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/4/2001 Captain Kidd’s Treasure Transcript What child playing in the sand has not fantasized about digging down with a spade and “thud” – encountering a sea chest containing a hoard of doubloons? Since the publications of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and Mark Twain’s […]
It’s the anniversary this week of the premiere of Disney’s animated musical Mary Poppins, and Kevin Shortsleeve has some thoughts about the brothers who composed the score for that film.
Here’s Kevin Shortsleeve to celebrate the birthday of a great, early animator: Rudolf Ising.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Blake-Edwards-and-the-Pink-Panther.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/25/2001 Blake Edwards and the Pink Panther Transcript In 1963 Edwards was directing a live-action film about a diamond called The Pink Panther, so named for a distinctive flaw in the center of the stone. This was the first of the film series involving […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Woody-Guthrie-1-1.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/16/2001 Woody Guthrie Transcript Woody Guthrie is best known for such folk songs as This Land is Your Land, and Pastures of Plenty. His lyrics have had no small influence on rock music, inspiring the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and John Mellancamp. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Ciardi-The-Man-Who-Sang-the-Sillies.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/25/2001 John Ciardi Transcript “Once long ago in a far away beginning ‘by the sea’ In, of course, a kingdom, one fine day With (why not?) A lark in a tree (Yes all the poems I ever see Put all their larks in the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brian-Wilson-and-The-Beach-Boys.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/20/2001 Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys Transcript “Their hearts were full of spring.” So begins chapter one of Back to the Beach, A Brian Wilson and Beach Boys Reader. It would be difficult to describe the appeal of the early Beach Boys recordings […]
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/14/2001 Burl Ives Transcript If Burl Ives were alive today, he would be celebrating his ninety-second birthday – but the thing about Burl Ives, is that he possessed an ageless quality – he was a sort of perpetual jolly uncle; timeless, and forever fun-loving. Though his career was widely varied […]