Encore: The Emperor's Challenge

Circle Round

WBUR

Ages 4-10, Children, Storytelling, Kids & Family, Childrens' Story, Books, Stories For Kids, Kids, Storytime, Story

4.4 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As we ring in the new year, we bring back a favorite episode about planting the seeds of honesty, starring Nikki SooHoo (Star Wars Resistance, The Resident) and Christine Toy Johnson (Iron Fist, Come From Away).

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0:07.0	carry it around, even drink it?
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0:37.7	Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.
0:49.4	Hi, Rebecca Sheer here.
0:51.2	When you believe it, it's practically the end of 2020.
0:55.5	And here at Circle Round, we're hard at work producing a bunch more episodes for you to
0:59.4	enjoy in 2021.
1:02.0	So this week we're presenting a favorite Circle Round episode from season two.
1:05.5	We'll be back with a brand new episode next week.
1:08.7	Till then, we wish you and yours a happy, healthy and hopeful new year.
1:15.7	When it comes to leaders, people who are in charge, we want them to have certain qualities,
1:23.7	like wisdom, honesty, fairness, you can probably name a whole bunch more.
1:30.7	In today's story, we'll hear about a wise, honest and fair leader who's ready to step
1:36.1	down and to the contest he holds to decide who will take his place.
1:49.1	I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.
1:55.1	Today our story is called the Emperor's Challenge.
1:59.1	Versions of this tale originally come from China.
2:03.8	And really great people came together to bring you our telling of this folktale, including
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