We're borrowing an episode from one of our all-time favourite shows: Threshold, a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the natural world.
Now in their 5th Season, "Hark", Threshold producer Amy Martin is exploring sound itself: investigating what it means to listen to the nonhuman voices on our planet — and the cost if we don’t. With mounting social and ecological crises, what happens when we tune into the life all around us?
Other episodes from Hark cover the sounds of the primordial microbial ooze, of insects, of fish, and of plants. Today, we're featuring episode 3: on the sounds of coral reefs, and how listening to them may help them survive a warming world.
Find Threshold (and the rest of Hark) wherever you get podcasts, or at thresholdpodcast.org
This episode of Threshold was written, reported, and produced by Amy Martin, with help from managing editor Erika Janik and assistant producer Sam Moore. Music by Todd Sickafoose. Post-production by Alan Douches. Fact checking by Sam Moore. The sounds of coral reefs and fish you heard in this episode were generously provided by Tim Lamont and the following scientists: Ben Williams, Emma Weschke, Eric Parmentier, Isla Keesje Davidson, and Steve Simpson. Big thanks to all of them. Threshold is made by Auricle Productions, a non-profit organization powered by listener donations. Deneen Wiske is their executive director. You can find more at thresholdpodcast.org