The bakers who start at 2am
A full night inside a small bakery, from the 1:15am alarm to the first warm loaf on the shelf.
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Why vinyl came back, and why it might stay
Record shops were closing everywhere. Now vinyl outsells CDs and pressing plants run all night. Nina finds out why.
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Can you trust a voice anymore?
Three seconds of audio can clone a voice. What that means for scams, trust and the people it helps.
Recording the sound of a forest at dawn
Seven mornings at four o'clock, one microphone and twelve uninterrupted minutes of the dawn chorus.
The synthesizer that changed pop music
From room-sized machines to every bedroom studio: how one instrument became the sound of pop.
A potter on making 10,000 mugs
Hana Mori numbers every mug she makes. She is past ten thousand, and she is still getting better.
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Night Shift
Twelve hours on the night ward
Handover at eight, the hardest hour at three and the conversations patients only have at night.
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The quiet revolution in batteries
Battery prices fell by ninety percent. Here is how that is quietly changing the whole energy system.
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The pirate radio ships of the North Sea
Rusty boats, seasick DJs and the pop music official radio would not play. The story of the pirate stations.