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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Miranda Sawyer

The week in audio: Lights Out: Dust; The Bakersfield Three; Heirs of Enslavement – review

Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason
Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns to myth on the ‘wonderful’ Lights Out series Dust. Photograph: Leonardo Cendamo

Lights Out: Dust (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds
The Bakersfield Three (Casefile Presents)
Heirs of Enslavement (Persephonica)

About halfway through Dust, the final episode in this series of Lights Out, writer Andri Snær Magnason says this. “In the year 2100, we expect the PH level of the world oceans to have dropped from 8.1 to 7.7, and this is the greatest change in the world oceans for 50 million years.” This sentence, says Magnason, is meaningless. The numbers don’t land in our heads: the 0.4 is too small, the 50 million too big. So he changes tack.

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