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Night Kitchen Radio Theater

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Turning-in-to-the-Night-Kitchen-Radio-Theater.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/20/2005 Night Kitchen Radio Theater Transcript I can remember the days (and evenings) when the radio was the dramatic centerpiece of most households — a source for entertainment and, of course, for news events — like this: Brief Sound Clip: Don’t be alarmed — […]

Willoughby and the Professor

That’s the Professor and his faithful side-kick, Willoughby, getting ready to pucker space and send a box full of cockroaches into the Arabian desert, as part of the Professor’s latest and grandest noble experiment...

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 […]

Quiz Kids

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Quiz-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/6/2001 Quiz Kids Transcript How many seconds are there in a year? If the Northern Lights are called the Aurora Borealis, what are the Southern Lights called? These were two of the questions that children between the ages of four and sixteen were asked […]

“From the Top”

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/From-the-Top.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/18/2001 “From the Top” Transcript “From the Top” is a year old this month, and we should all be singing the praises of this amazing weekly radio program, heard on many public radio stations, that features the performances of young […]

Buster Brown

Here's John Cech with some thoughts about the various media incarnations of Buster Brown.