a man heads into the ocean. if he waits long enough it might come and fetch him a sea levels are rising. but some. won t dispatch he loves the island that is his home and he s prepared to fight for it. this spot is where kids used to play volleyball until a few years ago when the beach vanished this is what climate change is the expected to bring to many pacific island nations the stakes are high despite said you know we believe you use an alliance of that movie and we don t want to be relocated damaging to the soul while we were standing up to call you stand up change. land. travel between pacific island countries cover some enormous distances the first leg of our journey takes two days and four stockholders . from tokyo to guam then to choke and pompei to khwaja line and from there to model capital of the marshall islands. some of the atolls that make up the country are only a few metres wide with the highest elevation of two meters above sea levels here halfway between aus
good evening everybody. i am the author of the woman they could not of silence and i m delighted to be here tonight talking to you. i m excited to introduce you. her name was elizabeth packard but i expect many of you have never heard her name before. history has chosen instead to commemorate those who tried but failed to silence elizabeth she waspa 5 feet 1 inches tall but r short stature is not in elegance of the power which was absolutely. elizabeth s downfall came about because of one thing and one thing only, elizabeth had a mind dof her own. what i will be doing is talking about her story to start in a moment with a short reading from the book talking about the history around the book and also my research process and then give you a chance to ask questions. the story starts on the cusp of the civil war in june, 1860 and it starts with a housewife and mother of six, it starts with a simple question what would happen if your husband could commit you to an insane asylum
host: annie jacobsen, it s start with definitions. what s area 51? guest: that s a secret basese out in nevada where all kinds of mysterious things happen that you and i can talk about and maybe we know what is going on out there maybe we don t. host: whew its called area 51. guest: big debate. i believe it s called area 51 because of the original project that went on us there in 1951. information given to me by some of the sources that i interviewed at length for that book, but of course, everything about area 51 is kind of a mussel inside of a palestine sol that s debated. the actual origins, the original date, the origin story of area 51. host: in 1951 what was going on? the atomic energy commission was doing loots of nuclear testing out there in the middle of the desert, and they wanted to keep what they were doing secret, and the cia was kind of coming into existence with its programs, and the two merged in this idea of if you have a secret base in a secret pla