(~590 - 332 BCE · Carthage & Tyre )

The Narrator remembers with deep regret how Alexander the Great destroyed the ancient city of Tyre  whose royal women had once made a safe and happy home for an immortal wanderer.

Based on Chapter 7 of Middle by Geoff Micks.

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(~804 - ~590 BCE · The Known World, & Parts Unknown)

The Narrator recounts his three-year journey leading a joint Phoenician-Egyptian expedition to circumnavigate Africa on the orders of Pharaoh Naku, or Necho II as he is remembered today.

Based on Chapter 6 of Middle by Geoff Micks.

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(825 – 804 BCE · Tyre, Cyprus, Zembra, & Carthage)

The Narrator tells how Elishat —remembered by some as Dido— founded and nurtured the great city of Carthage, and what she did to maintain its independence from King Iarbas of Numidia.

Based on Chapter 5 of Middle by Geoff Micks.

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(848 – 825 BCE · Tyre)

The Narrator remembers the early life of Elishat of Tyre, a great woman all but forgotten today who was almost murdered in her bed one dark night years before she became a legend in her own time.

Based on Chapter 4 of Middle by Geoff Micks.

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 (~870 - ~848 BCE · Tyre, Israel, & Parts Further East )

The Narrator talks about Jezebel, the Phoenician princess who married King Ahab of Israel, how she came into conflict with the prophets Elijah and Elissa, and how her story differs from what is remembered in the Bible.

Based on Chapter 3 of Middle by Geoff Micks.

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 (~895 to ~870 BCE · Tyre)

The Narrator shares how the royal women of Tyre kept the secret of his immortality, and in return he became their most trusted servant from generation to generation.

Based on Chapter 2 of Middle by Geoff Micks.

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 (2015 CE · Northern India & ~930 to ~895 BCE · Tyre)

The Narrator remembers how he started perhaps the happiest time of his life. As with so many things, it began badly. A little girl with a perfect memory for people's faces grew up to be first the Queen then the Queen Mother of  the great Phoenician City of Tyre, and she took a special interest in a man who never grows older.

Based on the Intro and Chapter 1 of Middle by Geoff Micks.

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Voice Acting - Geoff Micks and Paulette Anderson Micks (his mother!)

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In 2015, a man who has been alive since the last Ice Age bought a tape recorder. Over the course of three days he dictated his life story as fast as he could while waiting for a woman to visit who he believes will finally be the death of him.

In Season One of The Tape Recorder Trilogy Podcast we followed our narrator from his first life in Paleolithic Wales, across Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe, to becoming a bronze smith and a tin trader sailing the Adriatic, the Aegean, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea. He was the tour manager and best friend of Dedi, the world’s first magician. He was a family friend of Daedalus, Icarus, Iapyx, and Ariadne. He survived the Minoan eruption, and played a small part in both starting the historical Trojan War, and inventing some of the stories that would one day be collected into the Odyssey. The first day of tape-recordings ends with our narrator telling of the decades he spent as a field slave during the Bronze Age Collapse, which reminds him that his visions of the future can mean many things. He goes to bed with a palpable sense of relief.  

Meanwhile, that same evening, the woman who he believes may finally be the death of him arrives in a nearby city and checks into a youth hostel. She has the mysterious ability to tell how people will one day die just by looking at them, and she has travelled from the far side of the world to find him. 

That was Season One. For Season Two, you can look forward to so much more. Where everything you have heard so far was drawing from archaeology, anthropology, and mythology, Season Two is a journey through the untold side of recorded history you will not want to miss. Our narrator will become a prosperous Phoenician, a very happy and a very sad Carthaginian, a deeply reluctant Roman, and eventually a casual Christian in a devout empire that struggles to live through a plague they fear means the end of the world.  

You will hear about people whose names have rung out throughout the centuries, and people whose names have been forgotten by everyone except our narrator, and many more people —good and bad— who fall somewhere in between.

We will also hear a lot more about the woman who has checked into that youth hostel.

Season Two is going to build upon Season One and go places you never imagined. Join us each Monday for a new episode that will take you on a journey through the history you know, and the history you never knew you never knew, all told by a narrator who experienced it all first hand and is now free at last to tell you his life’s story with whatever time he has left.

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An end-of-season extra episode offering some updates on the podcast, background on the content, suggestions for additional reading material, and also some much-deserved credit to the people who helped make Season One and the book it was based upon possible. 

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 (~1170 BCE - ? · The Eastern Mediterranean & Parts Unknown & 2015 CE · Northern India)

The Narrator remembers one of the darkest times of his life when he was enslaved for many decades by all-but-forgotten raiders remembered as 'The Sea Peoples' during the Bronze Age Collapse. Meanwhile, the young woman he fears will finally be the death of him gets off her train and checks into a youth hostel in the nearby city of Rishikesh. 

Based on Chapter 15 and the Outro of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

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Voice Acting - Geoff Micks, Paulette Anderson Micks, Melissa Buttrill, and Rohan Makdani

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