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Taurus Mountains

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Oct 11, 2026

speaker_1NARRATOR
0:59
The Documentary, home of the best documentaries from the BBC World Service.
Krassi Ivanova-TwiggHOST
1:05
[instrumental music] In the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Turkey, two rivers begin their journey through Iraq and Syria.
Krassi Ivanova-TwiggHOST
1:19
For centuries, the Tigris and Euphrates carried goods, armies, and ideas, shaping some of history's great empires, but today the rivers are running dry.
speaker_1NARRATOR
1:31
The Ma'dan who have been herding water buffalo for thousands of years must now buy water to ensure the survival of their animals.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:41
What we should eat and what we should gaze upon was still wrapped in the mystery of the great unknown.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:48
X took a pencil and marked a straight line from Constantinople across the Anatolian plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Tarsus.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:55
That looks a good point to make for, she said.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:58
Alexander led an army over the Taurus.

56 MINS LATER

Paul WelfordNARRATOR
60:20
They told us you would look after us here, she said.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
60:24
As my eyes, he answered very quietly and simply, and thus began one of those friendships on which neither time nor distance can leave its mark.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
60:33
Two days later, X asked him whether he would accompany us on the next stage of our journey across the Anatolian plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Masina.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
60:43
Will you come with us and guard us well? she said.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:41
What we should eat and what we should gaze upon was still wrapped in the mystery of the great unknown.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:47
X took a pencil and marked a straight line from Constantinople across the Anatolian Plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Tarsus.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:54
"That looks a good point to make for," she said.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:57
"Alexander led an army over the Taurus." Then, having stopped within measurable distance of the sea, she drew her pencil eastwards across the Euphrates to a point on the Tigris high up in the Kurdistan Mountains.

56 MINS LATER

Paul WelfordNARRATOR
59:48
They told us you would look after us here, she said.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
59:52
As my eyes, he answered very quietly and simply, and thus began one of those friendships on which neither time nor distance can leave its mark.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
60:01
Two days later, X asked him whether he would accompany us on the next stage of our journey across the Anatolian plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Mersina.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
60:11
Will you come with us and guard us well? she said.

Unknown podcast

Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia-A. G. Seklemian

Oct 10 · 1 Mention

speaker_2UNKNOWN
1:35
But since the audience is made up of people who are comparatively unacquainted with my native land and its traditions, naturally they would like to know who the storyteller is, where he got his narratives, and by whom and how his tales were first told.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
1:55
About twenty years ago, I was a boy living in a village on the heights of the Taurus Mountains in Cilicia, or Lesser Armenia, not far from the Mediterranean Sea.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
2:08
Like boys and girls all over the world, I was very fond of stories.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
2:13
But there were no storybooks or other reading matter with which I and other children of my age could gratify our eager desire for stories.
speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
27:13
Ward, has not one bit of evidence to support it.
speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
27:16
By your own statement, the evidence is buried in the snow on the slopes of the Taurus Mountains.
Jack WebbVOICE_ACTOR
27:20
Nuts.
Jack WebbVOICE_ACTOR
27:20
I tell you, I helped chuck it out.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
29:35
Ward, is not one bit of evidence is supported.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
29:37
By your own statements, the evidence of the, is buried in the snow on the slopes of the Taurus Mountains.
Jack WebbVOICE_ACTOR
29:41
Nuts.
Jack WebbVOICE_ACTOR
29:42
I tell you, I helped chuck it out.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
3:55
What we should eat and what we should gaze upon was still wrapped in the mystery of the great unknown.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
4:02
X took a pencil and marked a straight line from Constantinople across the Anatolian Plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Tarsus.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
4:08
"That looks a good point to make for," she said.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
4:11
"Alexander led an army over the Taurus." Then, having stopped within measurable distance of the sea, she drew her pencil eastwards across the Euphrates to a point on the Tigris high up in the Kurdistan mountains.

55 MINS LATER

Paul WelfordNARRATOR
59:32
They told us you would look after us here, she said.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
59:36
As my eyes, he answered very quietly and simply, and thus began one of those friendships on which neither time nor distance can leave its mark.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
59:45
Two days later, X asked him whether he would accompany us on the next stage of our journey across the Anatolian plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Mersina.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
59:55
Will you come with us and guard us well? she said.
Beccy WatersHOST
1:46
[laughs] Well, we'll come onto that.
Beccy WatersHOST
1:48
Josh is obviously lining up at the Taurus Mountain race next week, and we'll preview that later in the episode.
Beccy WatersHOST
1:52
But before that, we'll talk about the Transpyrenees race, uh, that's finished, and the Arizona Trail race, uh, which is about halfway through at the moment, as well as a few other bits of news since the last episode.
Josh IbbettHOST
2:05
Before we get to that, though, uh, we need to thank the sponsors, as always.

18 MINS LATER

Josh IbbettHOST
20:03
Um, so yeah, I guess the next big race-
Beccy WatersHOST
20:07
That's the Transpyrenees wrapped up really.
Beccy WatersHOST
20:09
Um, and then the next race is the Taurus Mountain Race.
Beccy WatersHOST
20:13
It's the inaugural race, uh, from Nelson Trees and his team at the mountain races in Turkey.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
477:02
He was all for conciliation and advocated judicious bribery to increase our comforts, while I was as irritable and unreasonable as only a tired, ill, and disappointed man can be.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
477:14
In the early days of the war, there was only one bad road which zigzagged through the Taurus Mountains.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
477:21
Later, the Germans organized an efficient motor lorry service with German drivers and mechanics, for machinery of any sort is quite beyond Turkish intelligence.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
477:30
When we passed through, the narrow-gauge railway had been working for some time, and they were making good progress with the broad-gauge line, which would improve enormously the Turkish efficiency on the Mesopotamia and Palestine fronts.
Emre YilmazHOST
0:08
The drive from Fethi had taken 3 hours and 35 minutes by public transport, but today I had the wheel.
Emre YilmazHOST
0:15
The coastal road is a ribbon of gray concrete pinned between the steep limestone cliffs of the Taurus Mountains and the deep blue Mediterranean.
Emre YilmazHOST
0:23
It is not a highway for rushing.
Emre YilmazHOST
0:25
It is a place to watch the light change on the water.

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