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Banned Books Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Banned-Books-Week.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/25/2001 Banned Books Week Transcript This week public libraries around the country are calling attention to the on-going national debate about censorship through their annual Banned Book Week displays of works that have come under attack for their depictions of some aspects of human […]

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Goldings-Lord-of-the-Flies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/19/2000 William Golding Transcript Almost fifty years before “Survivor,” William Golding’s disturbing Lord of the Flies was published in 1954. It was much more reality-based and therefore much scarier than anything the networks might later fabricate for us. The novel was about what could […]