December 2011
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Walking Through Landscape with Iain Stewart...
website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/landscape
Scotland’s Trees - Ariundle http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radioscotland/landscape/landscape_20101025-1230b.mp3
Join Iain Stewart on an audiowalk through Sunart Oakwoods, discovering their hidden industrial history.
The Land - Glen Lui...
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In Our Time: The Unicorn (iplayer)
iplayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vhfdf
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the unicorn. In the 5th century BC a Greek historian, Ctesias, described a strange one-horned beast which he believed to live in a remote area of India. Later classical scholars, including Aristotle and Pliny, added to his account of this animal which they called the monoceros, a vicious ass-like...
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Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Area 51 'Uncensored':...
website: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/17/136356848/area-51-uncensored-was-it-ufos-or-the-ussr
mp3: http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2011/05/20110517_fa_01.mp3?dl=1
Seventy-five miles north of Las Vegas sits a land parcel in the middle of the desert. Called Area 51, the parcel is just outside of the abandoned Nevada Test and Training Range, where more than 100 atmospheric bomb tests were...
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A History of the World in 100 Objects (podcast and...
podcasts: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/
This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.
Excellent beyond words.
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Earth: A Three Act Structure (podcast)
website: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/earth-three-act-structure-audio
mp3: http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/geog/iain-stewart-earth-3-act-structure.mp3
The relevance of geological ideas to contemporary environmental issues. Professor Iain Stewart, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth.
Recorded January 27, 2011.
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Bosphorus (iplayer and podcast)
iplayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yd73l
podcast: http://thechangingworld.org/archives/2011/wk52.php
Istanbul is, famously, the only city in the world to straddle two continents - Europe and Asia. The dividing line is the Bosphorus; Edward Stourton explores the life and rich history of this 19 mile long stretch of water.
The Bosphorus gives Istanbul its unique character, but, as...
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Cat Women of the Moon (iplayer)
iplayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0149d00
Two-part programme exploring the popular motif in science fiction of an all-women society surviving without men. Presented by writer Sarah Hall.
Cat Women of the Moon was a 1950s film that followed a popular motif in science fiction; an all women society surviving without men. One of its biggest challenges? How to reproduce.
In the...
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