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🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Rosalind Chao (Mulan, The Joy Luck Club) headlines this Chinese tale about a tall mountain, a big radish, and the magic of giving back to your community.
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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. |
0:39.0 | Ever heard the phrase giving back to your community? |
0:43.0 | When we give back to our community, we're doing something to help the people around us. |
0:48.0 | In today's story, we'll meet a brave woman who helps the people in her village. |
0:52.0 | And she goes to very great lengths to do it. |
1:01.0 | I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round. |
1:06.0 | We're story time. Happens all the time. |
1:09.0 | Today our tale is called Long Hair and the Waterfall. |
1:13.0 | Versions of this story come from China. |
1:21.0 | Some really great people came together to bring you our telling of this folktale, including Rosalind Chao. |
1:27.0 | You grown ups might know Rosalind from such films as the Joy Luck Club, the laundromat, |
1:32.0 | and Disney's live-action adaptation of Mulan, now available in many countries on Disney Plus with premiere access. |
1:39.0 | So Circle Round everyone for Long Hair and the Waterfall. |
1:58.0 | Once upon a time, in a village nestled beneath a mountain, |
2:02.0 | there lived a woman with the longest hair you've ever seen. |
2:07.0 | Her glossy, rave and black locks float all the way from her head to her ankles, |
2:12.0 | so the villagers all called her Long Hair. |
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