Friends in High Places feat. Mario Cantone & Denise Crosby

Circle Round

WBUR

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

4.4 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Mario Cantone (And Just Like That, Surf's Up) and Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation) star in this folktale about how the giraffe got its long neck, and how the rhino got an unexpected ally!

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0:00.0	Season's creating circle round fans. To celebrate the season of giving, we hope you'll consider
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0:45.2	WBUR Podcasts Boston
0:48.3	Think about someone you consider a good friend. If this person were in trouble, how far would
1:00.7	you go to help them out? We're about to meet a character who goes to great lengths to
1:05.8	help her friends. Quite literally. I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Around.
1:18.7	Our story time happens all the time. Today our story is called Friends in High Places. It
1:25.2	was inspired by tales told in eastern and southern Africa. Some really great people came
1:33.5	together to bring you our folk tale, including Denise Crosby and Mario Cantoan. Denise
1:38.6	Crosby has starred in such television shows as Ray Donovan, Suits and Star Trek the next
1:43.3	generation. Mario Cantoan most recently starred in and just like that. You kids may recognize
1:48.8	Mario's voice from the animated film Surfs Up. So Circle Around everyone, for friends in
2:03.9	the world. In another time, long long ago, there came a summer when the rain ceased to fall.
2:19.3	A horrible drought spread across the land, withering the grasses, shriveling the bushes and drying
2:23.0	up the waterholes one by one by one. This other time long long ago was well before people
2:30.4	appeared on earth. Back in those days it was just the animals. And as the drought dragged
2:35.7	on, the animals were getting hungrier and thirstier under the sizzling sun. Among those
2:41.3	hungry thirsty animals were two best friends, rhinoceros and giraffe.
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