4.4 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Tzi Ma (The Farewell, Mulan) and Jimmy Wong (Wish Dragon, Mulan) co-star in this Burmese tale about turning soil and dirt into an invaluable treasure.
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0:00.0 | Calling all circle round fans, we're starting something brand new. |
0:05.7 | A club for listeners like you. |
0:08.5 | You can now join the Circle Round Club and enjoy a bunch of new, fun and exciting ways to circle around with us. |
0:16.0 | Club memberships come in all shapes and sizes. |
0:19.0 | You can find the one that's right for you and your family at wbur.org slash Circle Round Club. |
0:31.0 | Produced by the iLap at WBUR Boston. |
0:40.0 | Think about the last time you worked hard on something. |
0:44.0 | Maybe you spent hours practicing the piano or you helped to grown up clean a sink piled high with dirty dishes. |
0:51.0 | In today's story, we'll meet a character who works really hard, |
0:55.0 | but only so that he can avoid working hard for the rest of his life. |
1:07.0 | I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round. |
1:09.0 | For Storytime, happens all the time. |
1:12.0 | Today our story is called Dirt Into Gold. |
1:15.0 | Versions of this tale come from the Burmese people in Southeast Asia. |
1:21.0 | Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this folktale, |
1:27.0 | including Tai Ma and Jimmy Wang. |
1:30.0 | Tai and Jimmy co-star in Disney's live film adaptation of Mulan, |
1:34.0 | which debuted on Disney Plus with premiere access in many countries earlier this month. |
1:40.0 | So Circle Round everyone, for Dirt Into Gold. |
1:51.0 | In a small village, there lived a husband and wife. |
1:55.0 | To earn a living, the wife spent her days picking fruit for the banana farmer down the road. |
2:01.0 | Her husband, on the other hand, spent his days doing something else entirely, |
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