Geoffrey Austin Newland
speaker
6,502 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Geoffrey Austin Newland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the conversation had natural peaks and lulls, without any awkwardness.
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This was something I always enjoyed about spending time with Wonder.
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Often she would give me an interesting overview of a historical event that I knew little about and
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Or we'd share notes in a book we'd both read.
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It was, as I often thought, that
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As if we'd always known one another.
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That day we took a long and meandering route towards the whispering woods.
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The part of the forest where the silver birches whispered.
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I found it so funny that Lyra always claimed that the birch trees mostly whispered about the same old gripes and groans they had fifty years ago.
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Like so many of us, the trees were set in their ways when it came to their troubles.
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Wanda was a little less sure about the Whispering Woods than I was, but she seemed much more comfortable with the magic surrounding us the longer she spent in Nightfalls.
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And I enjoyed watching her confidence grow.
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Though our chatter was comfortable, our walk did have a vague purpose, as I was keen to take Wanda past the Whispering Woods to the clearing where my orchard would grow.
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Though I'd made excellent progress in growing a simple selection of fruits and vegetables, I still had lofty plans that were possibly beyond my current capabilities.
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The soil in nightfalls had always been remarkably fertile and imbued with magic, so I knew any trees I planted would grow quickly.
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And we were on a mission to find new saplings.
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This would allow the orchard that still lived solely in my imagination to come to fruition.
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Yes, I had grand plans, but I had learned that there was no rush, and the falls would lead me in the right direction with a gentle steering hand.
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I'd brought Wanda because although Lyra had extensive knowledge of flora and fauna and would have been the most obvious choice, Wanda had revealed one night that her father had been a keen arborist.
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She said he had possessed an extraordinary depth of knowledge about trees and
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