WVUR Podcasts. Boston.

Hi, Rebecca Sheer here. Here at Circle Round, we're gearing up for something big.

On Saturday, August 27th, we're recording three new episodes live at Tanglewood,

Summer Home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. You'll get to hear the first of those three episodes next week.

This week, we're bringing you a super fun encore edition from the Circle Round Archives.

A marvelously magical story you may have missed the first time around. Enjoy!

Ever heard the phrase, giving back to your community?

When we give back to our community, we're doing something to help the people around us.

In today's story, we'll meet a brave woman who helps the people in her village

and she goes to very great lengths to do it.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today, our tale is called Long Hair and the Waterfall.

Versions of this story come from China.

Some really great people came together to bring you our telling of this folktale,

including Rosalind Chow. You grownups might know Rosalind from such films as the Joy Luck Club,

the Laundromat, and Disney's live-action adaptation of Mulan,

now available in many countries on Disney Plus with premiere access.

Those circle round everyone for Long Hair and the Waterfall.

Once upon a time, in a village nestled beneath a mountain,

there lived a woman with the longest hair you've ever seen.

Her glossy, rave and black locks float all the way from her head to her ankles,

so the villagers all called her Long Hair.

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