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Episode 67, Native American 7 Frozen Planets. I'm I'm I'm

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I'm Over one third of our planet is frozen,

and yet the icy worlds of the Arctic and Antarctic

are as alien to most of us as the surface of another planet.

They are places of superlatives,

from ice caps that hold nearly 80% of our planet's fresh water,

to frozen forests that encircle the entire globe.

These are places that feed our imaginations, places that seem to be borrowed from fairy tales.

They're dominated and shaped by the ice,

both by its coming and by its going.

This is our planet's last true wilderness,

and one that is changing just as we're beginning to understand it. So begins David Asimbra's Frozen Planet series. I am writing this particular episode on the morning of Tuesday the 26th of November. And I say that, because I'm currently engrossed in the ongoing Planet Earth 2 series, and the soundtrack to it

is my listening companion for writing this week. As we turn our attention to the Great White

North, it seems only fitting that we begin with some David Attenborough, Britain's National Treasure.

Well, that, and I haven't yet found a way to work my other soundtrack into the narrative.

I mean, it would make no sense to open the episode with...

Out is Hamilton, the short-tempered protean creator of the Coast Guard, founder of the New York Post,

ardently abuse his cabinet post, destroy his reputation, welcome folks to the Adams administration.

Because that would just be confusing.

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