Ann Wroe

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865 appearances 15 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Aug

Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Just as the female turtles did.

With unwavering determination.

Swimming through mile after mile of rolling sea.

Nothing would remain but water.

That is the way of ice.

Fresh water poured into salt water and each absorbed the other.

Some observers thought they saw a bluer tinge in the ocean round about.

In its dying months, the iceberg A23A carried parallel blue lines of meltwater on its scarred surface.

Each represented a crack that would soon gape wider.

It drifted at about thirty kilometers a day in runnels of its own blood.

As other aspects have grown or decayed,

It became the biggest iceberg in the world.

It weighed, at a brave estimate, about a trillion tons.

It was the size of two greater Londons.

But it was not a towering massive monster.

It was a table of snow and

Its great flat whiteness filled the horizon from east to west.

It broke off or carved.

in nineteen eighty six from the Filchner Ice Shelf.

There were two siblings as well, and all three of them were so vast that they sank to the bottom of the sea.

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