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WBUR · 446 episodes with transcripts

WBUR's Circle Round adapts carefully selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 3-103. Each 15 to 25-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence and generosity.

Spoken has transcripts of 446 Circle Round episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 6, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1246443751/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Circle Round transcripts

Encore: A Biscuit, A Basket

October 6, 2026

Ben Brock Johnson (0:00)

Hey Circle Round listeners, it's Ben Brock Johnson here, one of the people behind the show. We're hard at work on a new season of Circle Round. And in the meantime, we're bringing you our greatest hits. Today's story is all about good deeds, bad intentions, and biscuits. Lots of nice, delicious biscuits.

Are you feeling hungry? Because I am. Anyway, Circle Round, everyone, for a biscuit, a basket.

Rebecca Sheir (0:42)

Think about a time you offered help. Maybe you offered to help a grown up with a chore, or a classmate with a project. We're about to meet a hard-working woman who offers to help someone, and in return, she gets a gift that keeps on giving.

I'm Rebecca Shear, and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. Today, our story is called A Biscuit, A Basket. Versions have been told by people across Asia, Europe, Africa, and North and South America. We've taken most of our inspiration from versions told in India. Some really great people…

Saara Chaudry (2:14)

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