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Back to SearchThe Franklin Expedition: Two Ships in the Ice
Episode 18
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. The Franklin expedition: two ships in the Arctic ice, a note left in a cairn, and the sea…
15 hours ago
The Rosetta Stone: Three Kinds of Writing
Episode 17
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. The Rosetta Stone: a delta port, a fort, a dark slab with three kinds of writing, a docto…
1 day, 15 hours ago
Tutankhamun: The Step in the Sand
Episode 16
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. The finding of Tutankhamun's tomb: a dry valley in pale cliffs, an artist turned archaeol…
2 days, 15 hours ago
Heinrich Schliemann: The Hill Above the Plain
Episode 15
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. Heinrich Schliemann and the hill of Hisarlik: a pastor's son from northern Germany, a cle…
3 days, 15 hours ago
The Klondike Gold Rush: The Long Road to the Creeks
Episode 14
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. The Klondike gold rush: a river valley in the Yukon, a small party that found gold in a c…
4 days, 15 hours ago
Carrying the Canoe Through the Shield
Episode 13
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. The portages of the fur trade: the ancient rock and countless lakes of the Canadian Shiel…
5 days, 15 hours ago
A Winter at the Bay Post
Episode 12
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. A winter at a Hudson’s Bay Company post on the shore of Hudson Bay: the palisaded buildin…
6 days, 15 hours ago
The Long River Road to the Great Carrying Place
Episode 11
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. The voyageurs’ yearly paddle from Montréal to Grand Portage on Lake Superior: the birchba…
1 week ago
The Great Molasses Flood: A Winter Afternoon in the North End
Episode 10
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. On a mild winter afternoon in 1919, a great tank of molasses gives way in Boston’s North …
1 week, 1 day ago
Insulin: The Quiet Laboratory in Toronto
Episode 9
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. A young doctor from the Ontario farm country spends a long summer and a snowy winter in a…
1 week, 2 days ago