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Noah's Arkive

Noah's Arkive

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In a world of torrential storms and rising sea levels, what can we learn from the ancient and enduring story of Noah's ark? In this episode, Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates talk about their wittily-titled book Noah's Arkive. Animals going in two by two (or in some cases fourteen by fourteen), the raven, the dove, the rainbow, the curse upon Ham, above all the ark itself as a place of shelter and safety for some, but exclusion and exposure for others: these are ideas and images that have resonated and been reinterpreted down the ages, with many notable reconfigurations in contemporary speculative fiction, where a spaceship -- or even spaceship earth -- is another ark. Come aboard, but also think about those who are left marooned outside ...

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Music: from Claude Debussy, La Mer (rights-free recording).

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