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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. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here .
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Circle Round
WBUR · Kids & Family · English
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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S9 · E57 · 11 Aug 2026 · 20 min
Summer Camp: The Salmon Famine
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S9 · E55 · 4 Aug 2026 · 23 min
Summer Camp: The Bird of a Different Feather
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S9 · E55 · 28 Jul 2026 · 24 min
Summer Camp: The Salmon Famine
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S9 · E53 · 14 Jul 2026 · 21 min
Summer Camp: The Long Crimson Thread
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S9 · E52 · 7 Jul 2026 · 20 min
Summer Camp: The Upside-Down Tree
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S9 · E51 · 2 Jul 2026 · 15 min
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S9 · E50 · 2 Jul 2026 · 6 min
Circle Round presents: The Midnight Rebellion, Ch. 2 "Get Hart"
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