Circle Round

By WBURKids & Family

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22 min
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Circle Round episodes

June 30 Summer Camp: The Parakeet’s Promise
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Broadway stars Lorna Courtney (& Juliet) and Shoba Narayan (Aladdin) face off in this Indian legend about a tiny bird who opens up a farmer’s eyes in a big way.
This Circle Round episode originally was released on Dec. 20, 2022.
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21 min
June 23 Summer Camp: The Sunlight Tree
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 members and a star-studded cast, this Swedish tale sheds magical light on kindness, caring, and letting roots run deep.
This Circle Round episode originally was released on Oct. 28, 2025.
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29 min
June 16 Summer Camp: The Sweet Spot
Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.
Tantoo Cardinal (Killers of the Flower Moon, Three Pines) and Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Tulsa King) star in this sweet and sour Wabanaki tale about how people first learned to tap maple trees.
This Circle Round episode originally was released on March 28, 2023.
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23 min
June 09 Summer Camp: The Missing Mountainside
Welcome to Circle Round Summer Camp!
This summer, camp counselor Erika Henningsen (The Four Seasons, The Midnight Rebellion) will be reintroducing us to some of our favorite episodes celebrating the great outdoors and spending time with others outside.
In this Taiwanese tale starring Karen Huie (Welcome to Flatch, Abominable and the Invisible City), a town learns the bad taste it can leave when you bite off more than you can chew!
This Circle Round episode originally was released on Jan. 24, 2023.
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22 min
June 02 Encore: The Four Winds
This Circle Round episode originally was released on Oct. 31, 2023.
Kimberly Guerrero (Spirit Rangers, Reservation Dogs) stars in a tale from the Lakota people about one thieving fox and four wise winds.
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24 min
May 26 The Storyteller
Film, TV and theater star Maria-Christina Oliveras (The Balusters, Cymbeline) headlines a Portuguese tale about the magical ways stories bring us together.
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36 min
May 19 Seven Silver Rings
Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Can You Ever Forgive Me) and Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Little Fox and the Wild Imagination) headline a Seneca and Shawnee legend about how the raccoon got its eye mask and tail stripes.
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21 min
May 12 Leader of the Birds
Carolyn Michelle (Familiar Touch, The Chi) and Christopher Rivas (Brown Enough, Rubirosa) headline a Maya tale about lies having short legs... and long tails!
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22 min
May 05 Chicken Scratches
Musician and podcaster Hrishikesh Hirway (Song Exploder) plays a cocky rooster in this Southern American tale about judging a book by its cover and eating humble pie.
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15 min
April 28 Encore: The Blizzard Wizard
Vivien Lyra Blair (Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Boogeyman) headlines this story from the indigenous peoples of Siberia about a supernatural spirit with a very cold shoulder.
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22 min

About Circle Round

From the publisher's feed

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…