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  • Created and produced by parents of young children, WBUR's Circle Round adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 3-103. Each 15 to 25-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence and generosity. And each episode ends with an activity that inspires a deeper conversation between children and grown-ups.
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Episodes
  • The Rightful Heir
    Apr 23 2024

    Oliver Stark (9-1-1, Into the Badlands) plays a clever king who concocts the perfect plan for telling a good egg from a bad seed.

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    23 mins
  • Encore: The Friendship Orchard
    Apr 16 2024

    NPR veterans Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg co-star in a Kazakh folktale about lifelong friends whose bond is tested by an unexpected discovery.

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    17 mins
  • A Bee in the Bush
    Apr 9 2024

    Erika Ishii (Worlds Beyond Number, Apex Legends) headlines this Vietnamese tale about getting a bee in your bonnet, buzzing off, and feeling the sting.

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    23 mins

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Grace

the first thing that is so sad that you can not get the job done



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It was the best

I wish I was longer and it was so good that I was could just go on and on and on😁🙃

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big fans!

my kids don't even speak in the car when I play this. it's very engaging and perfect to keep the peace on a drive.

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good story

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I love it. makes me happy once inside
takes care of everyone and makes them happy
the narrator did an awesome job

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Great for kids of all ages!

We live listening as a family. Thank you for the great representative stories, morales, music, and coloring pages. Your team is amazing and has gotten our family through tough times.

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AWSOME

loved it so much xoxo xoxo xoxo xoxo xoxo xoxo xoxo xoxo xoxo xoxo cool and funny I love it

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Amazing

- Zoe Jordan and Rowan Jordan

We love how circle around shares stories around the world and we love how it expresses different morals and all of its tails and let me just say spot on with the actors I mean their voices are just amazing One of our requests is that you bring back the story onions and garlic because when y’all started deleting stories it deleted our favorite story onions and garlic and my brother is been kind of whining about it ever cents

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Princess anoth

That story is the best I love it so much
It is so nice
That I love it so much
I can write a story with it
Can I can write
I love the story
Me and my brothers


And my little baby sister
And my best mom in the world
All my family love the story what u make it is lovely

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good story

Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I get to listen to a really good podcast and story! Yay. I still needed a word so here you go lol.

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Top notch!

All I need to say is in the title. Excellent stories and readers. Nuff said.

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