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Something happened in 2020. Well, lots of things happened in 2020. But I'm thinking of something in particular. And really, it's not something that happened, but rather something that didn't.

This episode explores how four musical notes came to be so incredibly famous all around the world.

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Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. (https://www.qebarnet.co.uk)

Beethoven Symphony recordings, conducted by Bernard Haitink, provided courtesy of the London Symphony Orchestra’s record label, LSO Live. Visit www.lsolive.co.uk to find out more.

Additional music provided courtesy of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Alessio Bax with the Southbank Sinfonia conducted by Simon Over.

"Clusticus The Mistaken" by Doctor Turtle (https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/) licensed under CC BY 4.0. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Episode illustration by Simba Baylon (Instagram: @simbalenciaga)

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High-speed car chases through the desert. Homemade alcohol. Stolen water. Power cuts. Catholic pilgrimages.

This episode travels from Egypt to the Amazon, from Arizona to Portland, from France to Ethiopia — and it's all about one tiny blue fish.

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Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. (https://www.qebarnet.co.uk)

Sources:

• Description of the Sonoran desert was adapted from Rekha Warrier's article "A brief history of three desert survivors".
• Global average heights for men and women taken from Our World in Data.
• Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument reopens.
• Analysis of Quitobaquito's falling water levels in 2020 taken from "Sacred Arizona spring drying up as border wall construction continues" by Douglas Main; and "The Disappearance of Quitobaquito Springs: Tracking Hydrologic Change with Google Earth Engine" by Logan Williams.
• 2050 water usage statistics taken from Seth Darling's TEDxNaperville talk.
• Details on disagreements between Ethiopia and Egypt adapted from “The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)”, Geography Review, Hodder Education, September 2020 Volume 34 Number 1, pp. 7-9 (p. 9).
• Information on Pharaoh Menes's dam taken from the Young People's Trust For the Environment.
• Trump says: "blow up that dam".
• The tragic pilgrimage of William X, Duke of Aquitane: details adapted from the BBC Radio 4 series "Eleanor Rising" and the book "Eleanor of Aquitane" by Marion Meade.
• Willamette fishing anecdote adapted from Rob Dietz's blog post published by the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.
• Hundreds of toxins in the Willamette River water, soil, and fish.

Further listening/reading:

• Mutant fish (and cows!) with green intestines... with Mark "The Hulk" Ruffalo.
• The failure of negative externalities.

Episode illustration: Steve the pupfish in mating season by Simba Baylon (Instagram: @simbalenciaga)

Additional music: Lee Rosevere and Doctor Turtle.

"What Happened in the Past Doesn't Stay There", "Curiousity", "Edge of the Woods", "Let's Start at the Beginning", "Quizitive", "More Questions than Answers", "Sad Marimba Planet", "Cloudloop", and "Let That Sink In" by Lee Rosevere licensed under CC BY 4.0.

"Reality Cartwheeled" and “Clusticus The Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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It’s 1665. You’re walking up a hill. It’s quiet, no one about. On your right is what will, in two hundred years’ time, become High Barnet tube station. You keep walking. It’s awfully quiet. Deserted. The buildings are boarded up. A crow caws in the distance. But otherwise it’s quiet, silent.

Three stories involving pirates, prisons, and plots to kill the king.

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Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. https://www.qebarnet.co.uk

Sources:

• John Marincowitz, Developments in English education over 450 years, with particular reference to Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet from 1573 to 2023 (forthcoming 2023).
• Edward Impey and Geoffrey Parnell, The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated History (2000).
• Kirstin Evenden, "The ‘Popish Midwife: Printed Representations of Elizabeth Cellier and Midwifery Practice in Late Seventeenth-Century London", RACAR Canadian Art Review 20:1/2 (1993), pp. 43-59.
• Sheila Williams, “The Pope-Burning Processions of 1679, 1680 and 1681”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 21:1/2 (1958), pp. 104-118.

Episode illustration: Geography - monsoons at sea, with rain. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Additional music: Agora, Mirah, Lee Rosevere, and Doctor Turtle.

"Doctor Talos Answers The Door" and “Clusticus The Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle licensed under CC BY 4.0.

"All I Have Left Are These Photographs", "The Past", "I Don't Want To Be Like Him" by Lee Rosevere licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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We use 100 million barrels of oil every day. If we stacked each barrel on top of another, it would take us less than 5 days to reach the Moon.

“If we don’t have a planet, we’re not going to have a very good financial system,” Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman recently told a US congressional committee.

This episode is about the weather, about whether the weather is important (or not), about how we understand big, faceless things like the weather, and about how slippery the truth can be.

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Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. https://www.qebarnet.co.uk

Sources:

• More than nine in ten Brits…
• Jonathan Frazer in the New Yorker
• Magali Delmas on earthquakes in California
• BP’s Beyond Petroleum campaign
• Peter Singer on reducing our carbon footprint
• Meehan Crist in the London Review of Books
• Kate Raworth on doughnut economics

Episode illustration: Meteorology: a table of the weather. Engraving by R. & E. Williamson, 1815, after Sir John Herschel, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Additional music: Agora, Mirah, and Doctor Turtle.

“You’re Right But I’m Me” and “Clusticus The Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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