Sundown on Sunday | Ep. 297
Circle Round
WBUR
4.4 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Charlet Takahashi Chung (Wylde Pak, Rugrats) stars in a Japanese folktale about a clever farmer who gives herself a helping hand... and foot!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Rebecca Shear here inviting you to Circle Round with us live. |
| 0:04.6 | Circle Round is hitting the road this fall with live episode recordings in Parker, Colorado, Boston, Massachusetts, and Charlotte, North Carolina. |
| 0:12.2 | Get your tickets at WBUR.org.org slash Circle Round. We're announcing more tour stop soon. Join the Circle Round Club, and you'll be first in line for tickets. |
| 0:20.4 | Club members are also |
| 0:21.2 | invited to a special meet and greet with me and Eric Shimalones after each show. Visit WBUR.org |
| 0:26.5 | slash Circle Round now. |
| 0:29.8 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:40.2 | An old Japanese proverb says, |
| 0:43.9 | Fall down seven times, stand up eight. |
| 0:48.9 | In other words, when you face challenges or setbacks when you fall down, |
| 0:52.7 | remember your ability to keep going and keep trying, |
| 0:55.3 | to persist and persevere. |
| 0:58.3 | We're about to meet a farmer who does just that. |
| 1:03.7 | And even though she falls down again and again, she doesn't just stand up. |
| 1:06.5 | She tries climbing to the clouds. I'm Rebecca Shear and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. |
| 1:19.6 | Today, our story is called Sundown on Sunday. |
| 1:23.3 | It's inspired by tales from the East Asian island country of Japan. |
| 1:30.1 | Some really great people came together to bring you our version of this folktale, including Charlotte Takahashi Chung. |
| 1:36.6 | A Japanese, Korean-American actress whose TV appearances include Grace and Frankie and Shameless. |
| 1:42.6 | You kids can check out Charlotte in the new Hulu series Wild Pack, |
| 1:46.3 | the Netflix series Carmen San Diego, |
| 1:48.4 | and the Nickelodeon series Rugrats, |
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