Tag: Rudyard Kipling
Kipling Encore
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kipling-Encore.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 8/15/2007 Kipling Encore Transcript Rudyard Kipling is much more than the author of the Jungle Book, which, no children, did NOT begin life as a cartoon. Unfortunately, most people don’t know that because his work has been downplayed for many years, not because it’s not […]
Rudyard Kipling
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rudyard-Kipling.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/29/2004 Rudyard Kipling Transcript Its the birthday this week of the author, Rudyard Kipling. He was born in Bombay, India, in 1865, to British parents who had been posted to the subcontinent, then part of England’s colonial empire. Kipling would make India the setting […]
T. S. Eliot
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/T-S-Eliot-That-Ol-Possum.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/23/2004 T. S. Eliot Transcript T. S. Eliot has been called “The greatest literary figure of the English-speaking world in the 20th Century.” He was the recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature and his poem, The Waste Land, is widely considered the most […]