Rebecca Sheir has brought thousands of stories to life as a public radio reporter and host, appearing on such shows as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here & Now, The Splendid Table and Marketplace. She’s helmed several weekly news programs and has hosted podcasts for the Folger Shakespeare Library and Slate magazine.

Her husband and partner, Eric Shimelonis is a composer, musician and audio producer, whose work has been heard on stage, screen and over the airwaves. Together from their basement studio in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts they produce a podcast called “Circle Round,” a program for children that mixes music and adaptations of little-known folk tales from around the world.

“The folk tales we try to find perhaps are well known within a certain country or within a certain culture, but we’re trying to expose the entire world to these tales. So, you’re not going to hear ‘The Three Little Pigs,’ on ‘Circle Round.” You’re not going to hear ‘Little Red Riding Hood,’ ‘Cinderella.’ Those are all worthwhile and worthy stories, but we’re really trying to open our listeners eyes and ears to stories that have been passed down to generations perhaps far, far from where they live.”Rebecca Sheir, co-creator of the children’s podcast “Circle Round.”