On Episode 103 of Outdoors with Lawrence Gunther, Lilly shares news about the largest-ever swarm of cicadas taking over much of the United States this summer. Then, Lawrence speaks with CBC executive producer Dugald Maudsley about the new three-part series called "The Secret World of Sound." Lawrence also shares how he uses his Apple Airpod Pros to hear more of nature’s sounds and reflects on why we all need to pay more attention to listening to nature.

Highlights

• Introduction (00:00)
• Lilly Laments the Looming Cicada Swarm (00:44)
• Dugald Maudsley on “The Secret World of Sound” a new 3-part series on CBC Gem (04:50)
• Optimizing Apple Air Pod Pros for Listening to Nature (23:04)
• Why We Need to Pay More Attention to the Sounds of Nature (25:09)
• Show Close (27:59)

The Secret World of Sound on CBC Gem:

A spectacular new series from The Nature of Things. Journey deep into nature to discover how animals use sound in extraordinary ways to hunt, find a mate and survive.

More About Dugald Maudsley & Infield Fly Productions:

Over a 30-year career, Dugald has been an on-air national reporter, a roving journalist making documentaries from the world’s war zones, and the creator and producer of award-winning documentaries.

Dugald’s interest in real life, personal stories comes from traveling the world creating documentaries on subjects as varied as the war on heroin in Pakistan, Saddam Hussein’s oppression of the Kurds in Iraq and human trafficking in Thailand.

He began working as a television journalist in New Zealand before joining the Australia ABC. He won that country’s highest journalism award for a series on the Russian coup before becoming the executive producer of a prime time documentary series called Foreign Correspondent.

In this role Dugald oversaw the production of more than 120 hours of international documentaries on subjects as widespread as the civil war in Afghanistan, economic riots in Lebanon, and the genocide in Rwanda.

Dugald has interviewed celebrities like Bob Geldof and Keith Richards, and produced interviews with world leaders, Afghan warlords and former members of Russia’s KGB.

Dugald helped produce Crimes Against Nature, a four part series on wildlife trafficking, for Nat Geo Wild in the United States, and 21st Century Sex Slaves, a documentary about human trafficking, for the National Geographic Channel. Both projects have been broadcast around the world.

In 2006, Dugald co-created the Gemini-nominated series Ancestors in the Attic for History Television. It helped people solve family mysteries and find lost relatives. During four successful seasons he oversaw the production of 49 documentaries shot around the world from Canada’s high Arctic to West Africa, China and Belarus.

He also created the limited series Myth or Science broadcast on the CBC’s long running series The Nature of Things.

Infield Fly Productions has also been honoured with three Canadian Screen Awards, most recently for its UK-Canada co-production with Humble Bee Films for Jumbo: The Life of An Elephant Superstar.

Dugald is a winner of the Canadian Screenwriters Award and recipient of numerous Canadian and international honours for his documentary work.

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