Arizona Sketches

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The Road from Coorain

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The Land of Little Rain

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The Land of Little Rain

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Scalp Hunters

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The Peregrine

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The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances

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The Mountains of California

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The Fairy Tales of Science

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Nature

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A Study in Scarlet (Part 2: The Country of the Saints)

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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

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Secretive Spirits

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Cliff Climbers

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My First Summer in the Sierra

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Ashenee Come Home

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Underland: A Deep Time Journey

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The Pathfinder (Librovox)

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Earth: An Intimate History

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Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs

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The Lepers of Molokai

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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

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Short Story Collection Vol. 038

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Great Sky Woman

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My Life on the Plains

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Life Between the Tides

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Israel Potter - His Fifty Years of Exile (Unabridged)

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Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home

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Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts

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The Encantadas

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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

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The Secret History of the World

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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The Book of Five Rings

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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On Palestine

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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History

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The Korean War: A History

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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The Endurance

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The Overstory

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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An American Marriage: A Novel

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The Story of Art Without Men

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Daydream 1 (a series of short August adventures): Begin, by a country church on the hills above Harlow in Essex, and at the foot of a jovial fir tree, hushed by warm wind. It's a sunny afternoon and a blackbird is singing in the secluded churchyard of St Mary's, Gilston. Wood pigeons are sunning their w...

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113 Spring’s here in mild valley: Sheltered against the gnarled trunk of an old holly tree, beside a country lane, the microphones are recording. Or maybe to them, they are looking. Looking out, as they have done for hours, at this mild valley, in sound.  From this tree, the valley stret...

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160 Forest ravine: This precipitous place, high in the Derbyshire hills, flows with birdsong and fresh moorland water. It's aural presence is made almost entirely of natural things. Non-human, natural phenomena. The sound-feel when immersed in it, has a depth, a width,...

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British Columbia’s Iconic Spirit Bears

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Night shallowing in a Suffolk Wood - listen with headphones (sleep safe): This is part eight, 3am to 4am of the twelve hour Suffolk Wood recording. We made it almost four years ago on a balmy summer night in August by leaving a pair of sensitive microphones spaced out like ears, to record non-stop in the heart of an uninhabite...

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199 Moorland forest mid winter gales: (Hello if you are new here! We're a different type of podcast. Here's a few tips about how to get the most out of listening to Radio Lento.) Twilight's coming. And a storm. To be half way up a lonely Peak District moor, off the puddled track, looking...

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Daydream 3 - rain water woods (new material coming soon): It's the dead of night. Along an exposed stretch of seawall East of Burnham-on-Crouch, a deluge has started. Rain lashes down from a pitch black sky onto the swirling water of an out-going tide. This is the River Crouch, and the microphones are captu...

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162 Waterfall gorge on Dartmoor (high definition spatial sound): When a rushing torrent cascades, down a precipitous rocky gorge. When the intensity of the white noise is so brilliant on your ears, that it feels like acoustic sunshine.You know you're here. When the waterfall's rumble is almost completely absorbed ...

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202 Upland woods in winter gales (breathe easy and *sleep safe*): There are spacious places in the world, where outcrops of woodland can be heard singing together in strong winter gales. Upland places. Uninhabited places. Naturally exposed, where the upper reaches of the land meet with the sky.  Singing, to trees, ...

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Suffolk Wood (part 6) - 1am to 2am sleep safe with owls: All is still in the wood. It is mid-way through a barmy August night. There is no breeze to rustle the trees. Dark bush crickets trichit the passage of time on crickle-dry carpets of leaves. Carried clear over the surrounding fields, the bell of Saint Ma...

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191 Moorland waterfall (sleep safe natural white noise): An hour of pure falling water in a natural wide open landscape. Captured in the early hours of yesterday morning in the hills of Derbyshire. A place off the beaten track. Up in the hills. Rugged. Reached by a steep up climb holding for balance on arm...

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89 The birds of the leafy ravine - a tonic for tired minds (best with headphones): We're going back to early June this year, to the rich and intermingled singing of birds that happens at dawn throughout the spring and early summer. In Britain it's called the dawn chorus, a behaviour associated with song birds during the breeding season...

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215 Calm within Kilminorth Woods: A fresh Cornish spring day last week, along the West Looe River valley. Hear an area of ancient woodland. Described as the lungs of Looe. It's Cornish rainforest. Trees, that go back in time, farther than we can imagine. Walk inland, with the river t...

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Why do saguaros only grow in the Sonoran Desert?: When you think of Arizona, what comes to mind? Sprawling deserts or urban sprawl? The Grand Canyon or the mighty White Mountains? Hollywood has painted our state as a wild, uncivilized frontier filled with dangers and adventure. Rugged landscapes split by sharp mountains and dotted with scraggly brush, and the sentinel of the desert. The saguaro cactus. Found only in the Sonoran Desert, the saguaro cactus has a shallow but wide root network – snaking outwards in the hunt for water rather than burrowing deep into the earth. Its roots are often as wide as the cactus is tall creating a firm base to stabilize its towering height. The saguaro's thick, waxy, green skin helps retain water and they hold their breathe all day to make sure they don't lose moisture. They are an Arizona icon and provide essential resources for desert dwellers. In this week's episode of Valley 101, a podcast from The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, we ventu

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Waiting for skylarks at the Rye Harbour nature reserve: If I sit here, very still, so as not to scare the water birds, might they come back? I hope so. They've wheeled away again, like they do. It's their drifting altitudinous song that I most want to hear. Sparse clouds are hurrying by. When the sun is out, ...

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Marielda 12: The Killing of the King-God Samothes By The Traitor Prince Maelgwyn Pt. 2: In one way or another, High Sun Day is celebrated all across Hieron. After all, there is a day each year on which the sun ...

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120 Secrets in the spring air - inland coastal country: On the footpath from Winchelsea to Rye, the one that goes inland and round in a long loop, we came across a small copse of trees in the corner of a field, by a heavy metal gate. The spot was rural, but not remote. Weekend voices of people visiting a near...

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204 Rain falls on steep craggy woodland (sleep safe): Fresh rain. Fresh woodland rain, from Miller's Dale in Derbyshire. From a hedgehog's perspective. Low on the forest floor, amidst the leaf litter, and the tangled ivy. A hidden hedgehog's place where only raindrops that have missed every leaf, twig a...

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Ep 443 Kentaurida by Mason Hawthorne: May's -funded episode (yes, I know it's late) is "Kentaurida" by Mason Hawthorne, narrated by Nobilis Reed. In the grey predawn the dense, ancient forest pressing right up to the edge of the road looms over George, as he picks his way along, careful...

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192 Remembering summer on the Hoo Peninsula: The experience of being out in the wide open on Higham Marshes in Kent on a warm May afternoon is nothing short of glorious. It's a perfect location for the Lento mics too. Earlier this year we walked through the nature reserve en-route to the old fo...

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Suffolk Wood (part 7) 2am - counting the chirps of a dark bush cricket (sleep safe): When the bell of St Mary's strikes 2am, and the world has dissolved into shadows and echoes of far away things, there's a solace to be found in counting the chirps of a dark bush cricket. When all that is near is a loose twig falling, a small mammal, bid...

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131 A thousand years along the Creel Path: A straight and stony path heads through open country, towards the sea. Beside the track, amongst land in-between, a tree. Lone and leafy. Like a sentry. Exposed and standing. It watches the sea birds. Hears their wide and freeing calls. Feels summer ...

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Migration corridors, desert elk, mule deer and Wyoming’s Red Desert: The remote Red Desert is a place of dreams, albeit dreams sometimes replete with choking alkali dust, freezing winds, gumbo mud, and the scattered, bleached bones of the unlucky or unfit of all species. But it’s a place of elk, toad mule deer, herds...

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Mildred Keith - Episode 1 - Kids Story Bedtime Stories for Children and Adults to Sleep

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Tidal water mirror still - a sound view from Canvey Island: A bird calls out. Its cry carries far out over the water on this, a rare day of no wind. Not even a breeze or a whisper of leaves in the trees. Cows low from farmland on the floodplain beside the Thames Estuary. From a hidden nest, little birds flutter i...

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101 At Benfleet Creek: With Benfleet behind, see ahead the footpath to Leigh-on-Sea. It's a beckoning line to the horizon. But for now, we can just let it go. Let it go because something else beckons. Something sky sized. Breezing in from the flat reflecting water. A presence,...

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Light rain beside the lane near Sandy: It's all woods and rolling fields in rural Bedfordshire. Good for long walks under wide skies. A chance to get away from it all. On a wet February day, after splashing along muddy lanes and mud sliding footpaths, after passing a pair of Anderson shelters...

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137 Night rains amongst moorland trees (sleep safe): Up a soily slope, almost too steep to climb, nestled in against the smooth trunk of a tree, the microphones are recording. Recording the sound of solitude.  Dry inside their weatherproof box. Listening, carefully. Witnessing, faithfully, the moments ...

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Terrifying Cryptids of Alaska: Inuit Paranormal Legends Are Real: Terrifying and bizarre cryptids live in Alaska, proving Inuit paranormal legends are real. That’s what remote viewing data and investigative research have found about the history of Alaska, which nobody seems willing to admit. Alaska’s paranormal act...

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179 Rain scapes special - August intermission 1 (sleep safe): This month we're out and about more than usual so each episode in August will be a special montage. Each will have its own theme. This week's theme is rain.  Here are four glorious rain scapes, from four episodes. Travel between a wide open coastal l...