The Round Mossy Stone | Ep. 296
Circle Round
WBUR
4.4 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Béchir Sylvain (Jurassic World Rebirth) stars as trickster Anansi in a West African tale about a magic stone, a major trick, and getting a taste of your own medicine.
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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 invited |
| 0:21.5 | to a special meet and greet with me and Eric Shimalonis after each show. Visit WbUR.org |
| 0:26.5 | slash Circle Round now. Support for Circle Round comes from Shriners Children's, home to the world's leading |
| 0:33.5 | pediatric orthopedic care, critical burn care, and care for craniofacial differences. |
| 0:39.5 | Shriners never allows the inability to pay to compromise the treatment a child needs. |
| 0:44.8 | The most amazing care anywhere begins at Shrinerschildren's.org. |
| 0:49.2 | Support for WBUR comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink Software for technical computing |
| 0:56.6 | and model-based design. MathWorks, accelerating the pace of discovery in engineering and science. Learn more at |
| 1:03.8 | MathWorks.com. WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 1:17.3 | Has anyone ever played a trick on you? |
| 1:21.1 | Playing tricks can be harmless, even funny, |
| 1:25.1 | but they can also be harmful because feelings get hurt, |
| 1:27.1 | and that's not funny at all. In today's tale, a sneaky |
| 1:29.4 | spider pulls a fast one on his friends. Little does he know, but the tables are about to be |
| 1:36.6 | turned. I'm Rebecca Shear, and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. |
| 1:47.4 | Today, our story is called The Round Mossy Stone. |
| 1:51.4 | Versions of this story come from West Africa and feature a character you've met in many Circle Round episodes, Anansi. |
| 2:00.3 | Some really great people came together to bring you our version of this folk tale, including |
| 2:04.8 | Bashir Sylvain, who co-stars in the sci-fi action movie Jurassic World Rebirth. |
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