Misha Glenny

speaker

1,430 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

Misha Glenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 22 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

In Our Time · The Garamantes · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

But that's also sort of drifting into the mythologisation that David... voice-verified

And they're trading all the time with them. voice-verified

Faris, can you tell us about the Garamantes' religious beliefs? voice-verified

What do we know about that? voice-verified

I wanted to carry on, David, with something which is more specifically associated with the Garamantes, which is the Garamantes as oasis cultivators. voice-verified

What does oasis cultivators actually mean in practice? voice-verified

But something like cotton, if I remember rightly, uses a lot of water. voice-verified

So how are they growing cotton in the Sahara? voice-verified

So, Juliet, let me just get this straight about how this is constructed. voice-verified

You have a sort of central well. voice-verified

Even so, Joe Quinn, that sounds like an incredible amount of work. voice-verified

So the sheer scale of the fogger, how did they build it? voice-verified

But this is quite... I mean, they didn't have diggers, industrial diggers or anything like that. voice-verified

It's all done by hand, presumably. voice-verified

And you also mentioned earlier about the Ethiopians. voice-verified

I want to come on to the trading. voice-verified

Faris, from what we've heard so far, it sounds as though the Garamantis were very sophisticated traders. voice-verified

What do we know about their trade? voice-verified

So, David Mattingly, do we know what they were trading? voice-verified

Was it just agricultural product or was it manufactured product as well? voice-verified

Showing 961–980 of 1,430 · page 49 of 72