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Jim Metzner: the global adventures of a lifelong listener

 

Traveling to record the sounds of our planet over four decades, American Jim Metzner is an audio legend. Host and producer of one of radio's longest running science programmes Pulse of the Planet, Metzner has recorded everywhere from Australian cloud forests to Brazilian favelas. 

Metzner recording on Great Gull Island, CT. (PHOTO: Supplied)

Metzner with bird researcher Helen Hays on Great Gull Island (PHOTO: Supplied)

Metzner recording Sufi Musicians in Morocco (PHOTO: Supplied)

Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA. Circa 1977. Interviewing Kate Jackson and Elliot Gould on a film shoot. (PHOTO: Rick Stafford)

Bahia, Brazil. Circa 1975. (PHOTO: Jay Maisel)

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Traveling to record the sounds of our planet over four decades, American Jim Metzner is an audio legend. Host and producer of one of radio's longest running science programmes Pulse of the Planet, Metzner has recorded everywhere from Australian cloud forests to Brazilian favelas.