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Sep 2024
17m 1s

Wild Life Week: Celery Makes A Nature Do...

SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura
About this episode

We all love to zone out to a soothing nature documentary. But what you’ll learn about them in this episode will make you watch – and listen! – a lot more carefully. Reporter Abigail Keel tells Dylan about her conversation with sound designer and mixer Graham Wild about the not-as-real-as-you-may-think sounds that bring nature documentaries to life.

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