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My Earliest Personal Landscape
I hope you’re enjoying my latest podcast conversations and book reviews.
Oct 23
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Ryan Murdock
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Alex Hutchinson on what drives us to explore
Listen now | We spoke about the explore-exploit dilemma, memorizing a route versus mapping a landscape, and how to find the sweet spot between…
Oct 14
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Ryan Murdock
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1:23:08
Foster Hirsch's Top Five Films
Start your Film Noir and Fifties journey here
Oct 7
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Ryan Murdock
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September 2025: What Am I Reading?
Welcome to another instalment of What Am I Reading?
Oct 2
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Ryan Murdock
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22:45
September 2025
Foster Hirsch on film noir and 1950s Hollywood
Film noir is is my favourite silver screen genre.
Sep 30
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Ryan Murdock
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1:18:51
Great Beginnings
My top ten opening lines from books about place
Sep 22
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Ryan Murdock
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Peter Carpenter: Walking in the Footsteps of David Bowie
When his doctor told him to walk or die, Peter Carpenter transformed a health crisis into a feat of urban archaeology.
Sep 16
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Ryan Murdock
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Justin Marozzi: Slavery in the Islamic World
Listen now | We spoke about courtesans and slave soldiers, the trans-Saharan slave trade, and how the Quran addressed slavery.
Sep 2
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Ryan Murdock
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1:03:37
August 2025: What Am I Reading?
Welcome to another instalment of What Am I Reading?
Sep 1
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Ryan Murdock
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17:54
August 2025
Final Pyrenees Update
We'll, that's it.
Aug 12
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Ryan Murdock
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Penultimate Pyrenees Update
I've been plodding through the last couple hundred kilometers, increasingly beset by Mediterranean heat.
Aug 9
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Ryan Murdock
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Another end of section Pyrenees update
Stopped in Salardu, Spain, five days ago for a major resupply.
Aug 5
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Ryan Murdock
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