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Throughline

Dreams, Creatures, and Visions

Throughline

NPR

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.715K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We are in the season of chaos. It can feel like everything is happening at once: You might be sprinting across an airport; or around your kitchen, with a few too many dishes cooking at once. Your phone keeps pinging — texts, weather alerts, and more and more breaking news. Here at Throughline, we're always going to different places in time and space. So this week, come with us: to another time, another place, another realm. In this episode, we'll be your sonic travel guides on a journey through bite-sized pieces of Throughline's most immersive episodes, from the shadowy world of dreams, to the midst of the Revolutionary War, to the haunting music of Radiohead and their visions of the future.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We are in the season of chaos.

0:07.0

It can feel like everything is happening at once.

0:16.0

It might be sprinting across an air bubble.

0:22.0

Or around the kitchen with a few too many dishes cooking at once.

0:27.0

Your phone keeps pinning a text from your mom, a weather alert, more and more breaking news.

0:32.0

Online conspiracy.

0:34.0

Reeling from the devastating floods.

0:36.0

From targeting the electric grid.

0:37.0

You might feel trapped.

0:39.0

Political violence.

0:40.0

Devastating effect.

0:41.0

A violent cross.

0:42.0

Do the door with the blade.

0:47.0

Move it.

0:56.0

And ever it is, we are going to take you out of it.

0:59.0

Here at Thru Line.

1:00.0

We're always going to different places in time and space.

1:04.0

In this episode, we've picked a few of our most popular destinations.

1:09.0

Six stories pulled from some of our most sound rich episodes.

1:13.0

From the immensity of dreams.

1:15.0

To the enormous power of a very tiny creature.

1:19.0

So immerse yourself.

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