Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Margaret-Hamilton.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/7/2001 Margaret Hamilton Transcript In the mall this past Halloween, one of the shops which sold costumes, masks, and other goulish get-ups featured the pointed-hatted, green-faced witch whom we have all become so familiar with from The Wizard of Oz — the Wicked Witch […]
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/L-Frank-Baum.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2000 Frank L. Baum Transcript It’s the real wizard of Oz’s birthday today. Born in 1856, L. Frank Baum was the frail son of well-to-do and indulgent parents who lived on an picture book, gentleman’s farm near Syracuse, New York. Growing up, Baum always […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Oz-on-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 3/23/2000 Oz on the Internet Transcript What you might not know is that it all started, 100 years ago, with a book. Penned by author Frank Baum, and published in 1900–The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was to become one of the best selling children’s […]