Geoffrey Austin Newland
speaker
5,617 appearances
27 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Geoffrey Austin Newland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is now wrapped once.
Twice.
Three times around
Imagine her adding the tassels to the ends of the scarf.
The movement of the hands as the knots are tied one by one, her face glowing in the firelight.
And now you are there.
And the tree.
And somehow you know that here is Methuselah.
Everything is more gnarled and twisted than you had thought possible, with creams and greys wrapping themselves into the browns and almost blacks of the wood.
It stands tall but without any drama.
There are no signs of
No indications that here
Alongside you is a tree that has lived for nearly five thousand years.
Five thousand years ago the Stone Age was finally drawing to an end.
Far away on the other side of the world.
The Bronze Age is beginning.
And this is when a passing bird will have dropped a seed.
that somehow found its way into the ground in just such a way that allowed it to grow.
Imagine this seed fluttering to the ground and resting on the damp earth.
Imagine a creature passing by.
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