Circle Round

WBUR

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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20 episodes
Updated Tuesday

Episodes20

Newest first

Summer Camp: The Salmon Famine
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.
Tuesday · 24 min
Summer Camp: The Snow Eater
Cree Summer (Good Times, Abbott Elementary) headlines a Blackfoot legend about fast friends, warm winds, and why bears hibernate during the winter.
July 21 · 22 min
Summer Camp: The Long Crimson Thread
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.
July 14 · 21 min
Summer Camp: The Upside-Down Tree
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.
July 7 · 20 min
Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 3 "Into the Machine"
WBUR's new podcast The Midnight Rebellion continues with a journey into the mysterious machine.
July 2 · 14 min
Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 2 "Get Hart"
WBUR's new podcast The Midnight Rebellion continues with a mission to find Joule's brother, Hart.
July 2 · 5 min
Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 1
Erika Henningsen (Netflix's "The Four Seasons") and others star in WBUR's new podcast The Midnight Rebellion, an adventure in a world where everything is wrong, and YOU have to set it right.
July 2 · 17 min
Summer Camp: The Parakeet’s Promise
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.
June 30 · 20 min
Summer Camp: The Sunlight Tree
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.
June 23 · 28 min
Summer Camp: The Sweet Spot
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.
June 16 · 22 min
Summer Camp: The Missing Mountainside
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!
June 9 · 21 min
Encore: The Four Winds
Kimberly Guerrero (Spirit Rangers, Reservation Dogs) stars in a tale from the Lakota people about one thieving fox and four wise winds.
June 2 · 23 min
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.
May 26 · 35 min
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.
May 19 · 20 min
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!
May 12 · 21 min
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.
May 5 · 14 min
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.
April 28 · 21 min
Encore: The Magic Touch
Edi Gathegi ("The Harder They Fall," "For All Mankind") stars in this East African story about twin brothers, enchanted fruit, and the magic of an open heart.
April 21 · 29 min
Lighting a Spark
Charlene Amoia (The Breadwinner, How I Met Your Mother) plays a tiny but mighty bird in this French legend about the origin of fire.
April 14 · 18 min
Swift Fox and the Coyote Twins
This Is Us co-stars (and That Was Us co-hosts) Sterling K. Brown, Mandy Moore and Chris Sullivan co-star in a multi-cultural legend about two conceited coyotes and the fox who outfoxes them.
April 7 · 21 min

Circle Round

Summer Camp: The Salmon Famine

Summer Camp: The Snow Eater

Summer Camp: The Long Crimson Thread

Summer Camp: The Upside-Down Tree

Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 3 "Into the Machine"

Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 2 "Get Hart"

Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 1

Summer Camp: The Parakeet’s Promise

Summer Camp: The Sunlight Tree

Summer Camp: The Sweet Spot

Summer Camp: The Missing Mountainside

Encore: The Four Winds

The Storyteller

Seven Silver Rings

Leader of the Birds

Chicken Scratches

Encore: The Blizzard Wizard

Encore: The Magic Touch

Lighting a Spark

Swift Fox and the Coyote Twins