Episode 33: “Water and Rain” Edition (video)

Posted by jnshaumeyer on 7 July 2015

Streamed live on 25 June 2015.

Cynthia Barnett wrote that poet Conrad Aiken called rain “the syllables of water”. Today’s conversation was all about water and rain and all of the syllables we could fit into one tiny hour.

Our guests were Cynthia Barnett, author of Rain : A Natural and Cultural History, and Alok Jha, author of The Water Book : The Extraordinary Story of our Most Ordinary Substance. Do I even need to say by now that the discussion was wide ranging and filled with interesting facts and ideas?

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