Coming Clean

Why truth and lies matter: https://bit.ly/Truth_Lies_Climate In this 10th and final episode, we tie up the loose ends of the story of Mongolia's only deep-sea navigator, in the process telling the unforgettable story of The Tallest Woman in Mongolia. Music Notes: the music used in this episode was recorded by the great ethnomusicologist Jean Jenkins in the spring of 1974, at a (then) permanent encampment near the Mongolian capital, Ulaan Baatar. It comes from a CD of Mongolian music produced for Topic World Series. The title is Ort Saikhan, 'My Beautiful Brown Horse'. The lyrics of the song are a homage to the horse of such legendary patriotic devotion, he ran 2000 kilometres back from Beijing to die in his Mongolian homeland. Our edit, however, doesn·t include any of these words. The singer on this track was the famous long song singer Dorj Dawa, who was then reckoned to be in his 70s. But we don't hear his voice in the parts of the track we used. Dorj Dawa was accompanied by two unnamed musicians, one playing the Morin Khur (horsehead fiddle) the other an unidentified type of Mongolian flute. The bits we've used, however, don't use anything with the flute. We don't even hear his voice in the parts of the track we used. Like we say, facts are important, sometimes. Written, Produced & Narrated by SternWriter Audio Production by Samuel Wain