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Discover how to lead a better life in our age of confusion.
Enjoy this BBC audiobook collection written and presented by best selling author Oliver Berkman, containing four useful guides to tackling some central ills of busyness, anger, the insistence on positivity and the decline of nuance.
Our lives today can feel like miniature versions of this relentless churn of activity.
We find we're rushing around more crazily than ever.
Somewhere when we weren't looking, looking.
It's like busyness became a way of life.
Start listening to Oliver Epidemics of Modern Life.
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Listening to natural soundscapes is quite often an effective way of calming the mind, from the sound of birdsong to flowing water.
But believe it or not, the sound you're currently listening to is of a glacier melting in Antarctica.
As much as it's an incredibly beautiful and relaxing sound, it's also a tragedy.
Last year, NASA reported that Antarctic sea ice had reached historic lows and this sound represents the physical sound of climate change.
Hello and welcome to the Documentary in the Studio from the BBC World Service, the program that investigates the world's most creative minds as they make new work and share it with the world.
I'm Tom Rain and in this episode we're exploring the depths of music and climate change with Madame Gandhi.
When icebergs are melting, what's actually happening is freshwater icebergs are melting into the rising levels of the seawater and so a lot of air bubbles get released and it's so beautiful because it's so fresh and abundant.
Imagine being really thirsty and then you just like cold fresh water is just so appealing.
I felt that when I listened to that sound.
And it's also a tragic sound because it's literally the sound of our planet melting.
Born Kiran Gandhi, she's an American artist, activist and producer who originally started out as a percussionist for popular British artist Mia, an American electronic music duo, Thievery Corporation.