Circle Round
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.
Episodes
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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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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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.
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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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.
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...
Circle Round continues our special presentation of WBUR's new podcast,
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 ...
Circle Round brings you a special new podcast: The Midnight Rebellion, by WBUR, the same place that makes our show!
Heads up! This podcast is recommended for ages 7+.
The Midnight Rebellion, starring Erika Henningsen (Netflix's "The Four Seasons") and others, tells the story of a girl on an adventure in a watery world where everything is wrong. And she has to set it right—with help from YOU.
Each episode ends with a ...
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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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.
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 M...
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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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