Episode notes
For a century we have said this far and no farther. A hundred and forty degrees, and no complicated life past it. Then somebody carried sample jars up a hill in northern California three summers running, and found something living on the other side of the line.
Also this hour. Singapore makes manners the law. Seventy alpacas come down off the Bernese Alps and meet the postal bus. Under a Paris hospital, sixty five feet of burnt wall that may settle an argument two thousand years old. A desert in Western Australia in flower for the first time in twenty years.
A nor'easter with nowhere to go. Measles at three thousand four hundred and seventy one. A drug story where the nickname is the misleading part. A radar centre, a dead backup line, and a new machine that was meant to predict exactly this. A hospital guard who saw a fire on a camera and ran toward it. Two men in the Atlantic and a striped bean bag chair. A gold ring, six hundred years in a field, and a quiet room.
And a man of eighty one who spends his days carrying other people's belongings back to them.
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