Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | WVUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:08.6 | Have you ever had a bad day? |
| 0:11.6 | When we're having a bad day, it can be helpful if we talk about it. |
| 0:15.5 | If we sit down with someone we trust and share how we're feeling. |
| 0:19.9 | We're about to meet a character who isn't just having a bad day. |
| 0:23.5 | He's having a bad summer. |
| 0:25.3 | And when he talks about it with a complete stranger, |
| 0:28.5 | things go from tragic to magic. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm Rebecca Shear, and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. |
| 0:41.3 | Today, our story is called Crocus Pocus. |
| 0:45.3 | You'll find versions of this tale from the southern Italian island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 0:52.3 | Some really great people came together together largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 1:01.0 | Some really great people came together to bring you our version of this folktale, including Jacob Laval and Amanda Warren. |
| 1:03.0 | Jacob Laval has appeared in such TV shows and movies as Sesame Street, John Malaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch, |
| 1:09.0 | The Plot Against America and Eight-Bit Christmas. |
| 1:12.6 | His newest film The Unbreakable Boy is in theaters now. |
| 1:15.9 | Amanda Warren is known for her roles in East New York, Dickinson, The Leftovers, The Burial, and The Night Agent, now in its second season on Netflix. |
| 1:24.7 | So, circle around, everyone. |
| 1:26.6 | For Crocus, Pocus. Music season on Netflix. So circle around, everyone, for crocus pocus. |
| 1:28.3 | Have you ever seen the little cup-shaped flower known as the crocus? |
| 1:45.3 | Most crocuses originally come from Asia and North Africa. |
| 1:49.7 | But there's one type of crocus, the pale purple, long-flowered crocus, that comes from Europe. |
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