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 archaeologist, one last season, a step in the sand and a candle at a small opening.

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This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

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 clerk, a merchant, a trench through a mound of nine layers, and gold that was older than the war.

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This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

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 creek, the long road over the passes and down the river, and the town at the meeting of two rivers.

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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 Shield, the worn paths between the water, the tumpline and the resting places called poses, and the quiet of a carrying place at night. Part three of three stories about the fur trade.

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This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

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 buildings, the Cree traders and the Orkney servants, the post journals and the northern lights, and the geese returning in spring. Part two of three stories about the fur trade.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

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 birchbark canoes, the Ottawa River and the French River, the songs and the camps along the shore, and the meeting place at the end of the road. Part one of three stories about the fur trade.

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This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the early summer of 1813, a woman named Laura Secord sets out on foot through the Niagara country of Upper Canada, on a long walk through the woods to carry a warning.

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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 End. The neighbourhood comes together for the long work of putting things right, and the story ends in a quiet park on the waterfront.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.