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Real Survival Stories

Alone in Zambia: Scorching Sun, Out of Water

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Chaz Powell is determined to walk the full length of the Zambezi River, from source to mouth. 2,000 miles through harsh terrain, even harsher weather and some of the hottest temperatures on Earth. After two months, he’s making good headway… until his progress grinds to a sudden halt. Before long, Chaz will find himself exposed on the wide-open savanna. With grim irony, a journey along one of Africa’s longest rivers will transform into a desperate battle against dehydration…   A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins.   Written by Joe Viner | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Jacob Booth | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley.   For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions   If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Divali's almost here and at Morrisons we've got all the essentials ready to help you prepare.

0:04.8

Like Salam Basmati rice, 10 kilos was 19 pounds now just 11.

0:09.0

Or KTC sunflower oil.

0:10.7

5 litres was 875, now 6.50.

0:13.5

There's elephant at a medium chapati flour 10 kilos was 1250, now only 7 pounds.

0:18.0

And East End Pure Buttergee 1 kilo was 1250 now just 11 pounds

0:22.2

From all of us at Morrisons

0:23.8

Happy Diwali and Bandit Jordivas

0:25.7

Morisons to shop at Morrison

0:27.4

Selected stores online varies excludes Morrison's daily

0:30.0

I'm Julie Andrews and it is my great pleasure

0:33.6

to bring you Jane Austen Stories

0:36.1

The new show from the Noiser Podcast Network.

0:40.4

I'll be reading Pride and Prejudice. We'll walk grand estates and take tea with well-dressed

0:48.3

gentlewomen, but in this tranquil corner of England, not everything is quite as it appears.

0:56.0

Listen to Jane Austen stories wherever you get your podcasts.

1:03.4

It's October 2016, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

1:08.8

On a vast shelf of land overlooking the mighty Zambizi River,

1:12.6

a desolate expanse of bone-dry savannah

1:15.6

bakes in the searing heat.

1:18.6

It is 50 degrees Celsius, over 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and rising.

1:24.6

The sun climbs higher in the sky.

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