Circle Round

By WBURKids & Family

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Circle Round episodes

August 25 Summer Camp: Top Banana
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Tatyana Ali (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Abbot Elementary) and Jack De Sena (Lego Monkie Kid, Avatar: The Last Airbender) headline this Filipino story about getting the upper hand by taking the lower half.
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27 min
August 18 Summer Camp: Crocus-Pocus
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Jacob Laval (The Unbreakable Boy, John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch) and Amanda Warren (The Night Agent, East New York) headline a Sicilian tale about sowing the seeds of kindness, compassion and crocuses.
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21 min
August 11 Summer Camp: The Salmon Famine
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Recorded live at The Aladdin Theater in Portland, OR, this high-flying tale explains how the islands of the Philippines came to be.
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20 min
August 04 Summer Camp: The Bird of a Different Feather
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Recorded live at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD, this African tale explains how the guinea fowl got its distinctively speckled feathers.
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23 min
July 28 Summer Camp: The Salmon Famine
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Recorded live at Symphony Hall with Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians and a star-studded cast, this indigenous Pacific Northwest tale follows a wily coyote on a daring rescue.
This Circle Round episode originally was released on Feb. 18. 2025.
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25 min
July 21 Summer Camp: The Snow Eater
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Cree Summer (Good Times, Abbott Elementary) headlines a Blackfoot legend about fast friends, warm winds, and why bears hibernate during the winter.
This Circle Round episode originally was released on May 7, 2024.
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23 min
July 14 Summer Camp: The Long Crimson Thread
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Jessika Van (Seoul Searching, Awkward) and Mark Pellegrino (American Rust, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley) co-star in a Welsh tale about a girl, a drought, and a mouse with a life-saving secret.
This Circle Round episode originally was released on May 14, 2024.
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22 min
July 07 Summer Camp: The Upside-Down Tree
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Comedian Alonzo Bodden (Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Heavy Lightweight) headlines this African legend about how one animal’s mischief created the savanna’s most majestic, magical trees.
This Circle Round episode originally was released on Nov. 7, 2023.
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21 min
July 02 Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 3 "Into the Machine"
Circle Round continues our special presentation of WBUR's new podcast, The Midnight Rebellion, with Chapter 3, "Into the Machine."
If you have not listened to Chapter 1, go back and start there!
The Midnight Rebellion tells the story of a girl on an adventure in a watery world where everything is wrong. She has to set it right—with your help. Each episode ends with a choice that YOU make.
**Recommended for ages 7 and up.**
To hear more episodes, search for The Midnight Rebellion in your podcast app and follow the show, or visit ⁠wbur.org/midnight⁠.
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15 min
July 02 Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 2 "Get Hart"
Circle Round continues our special presentation of WBUR's new podcast, The Midnight Rebellion, with Chapter 2, "Get Hart."
If you have not listened to Chapter 1, go back to the previous episode and start there.
The Midnight Rebellion tells the story of a girl on an adventure in a watery world where everything is wrong. She has to set it right—with your help. Each episode ends with a choice that YOU make.
**Recommended for ages 7 and up.**
To hear more episodes, search for The Midnight Rebellion in your podcast app and follow the show, or visit wbur.org/midnight.
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6 min

About Circle Round

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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…