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Welcome to the Quiet Zone

Photographer Emile Holba explores the National Quiet Zone, 13,000 square miles of radio silence, just a few hundred miles from Washington DC

Radio 4,5 episodes

Episodes

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Into the Valley
Listen to the universe being created, or have a mobile phone? What would you choose?
18 May 2015,12 mins
Keeper of the Quiet
How do you keep a microwave oven from interfering with radio waves coming from deep space?
19 May 2015,12 mins
We Are Technological Lepers
If you thought your Wi-Fi was slowly killing you, would you move to the Quiet Zone?
20 May 2015,12 mins
Hunter and the Hunted
Homer Hunter - bears, bluegrass, and a daddy shot by the police, thinking he was black.
21 May 2015,12 mins
Change Must Come
You want to hear a few seconds after the Big Bang? You have to make some sacrifices.
22 May 2015,12 mins

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