Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
10 recordings
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
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We slightly had another drought, but by that time we have restored the Maasai mobility so we can move our animals and share with other villages.
Despite facing more droughts, Dalmas and his community continue to try and protect their land and their culture.
He now shares his story and travels around the world, including to Manchester in England, where I met him for this interview.
I find hope in the sense that the Maasai people are a very strong society and they are resilient and they are taking action.
The resilient and resourceful Dalmas Tiampati was speaking to Megan Jones.
Next, a moment from the history of one of the planet's greatest feats of construction, the Great Wall of China.
For this, we're going back to the 1980s when tourism was just beginning and there was little public knowledge about China's cultural heritage.
Sometimes when I stand on the wall, I feel like I'm having a conversation with people from ancient times.
When I put my hand on the stones, I think about how hundreds of years ago this stone was carved out of the mountains and placed on the wall by someone.
And I try to imagine them and what sort of lives they had.
Yao Huidong has spent his life studying the wall, and on September 24, 1985, he and two friends became the first people ever recorded to walk the entire length of it, well over 8,000 kilometers.
It was an adventure that took them 16 months, but the inspiration for it had developed over years.
When I was in my 80s,
In the early 80s, I was an electrician, installing high-voltage power lines.
But in my spare time, I was also really into literature, and I would write my own stories and poems.
I could see the Great Wall from my house.
I found it really inspiring, and I'd always think, how did they actually build it?
At the time, there were hardly any books written about it, but I wanted to find out everything I could about its history.
The Great Wall began as a collection of walls and battlements, originally built to stop marauding armies and nomadic gangs from raiding villages and towns in the north of China.
The first emperor of a united China, Qin Shi Huang, started the construction more than 2,000 years ago.
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