Jim Metzner is a key figure in the world of sound. He collected thousands of sounds, from around the world, and a significant part of this material ended up as the theme of a two-minute episode of a program called The Pulse of the Planet. The program went on from 1989 until quite recently.
Metzner's collection is massive and, according to the Smithsonian Magazine, "the work to digitally preserve it has only just begun, says the Library of Congress in a statement. The radio producer has thousands of recordings to his name, including more than 2,000 audio cassettes, over 1,000 digital audio tapes, and nearly 100,000 sound files created with digital recording gear over the last two decades. Additionally, the collection includes photographs, handwritten journals and storybooks. In total, the collection houses 28,000 mixed material items, spanning from the 1970s to 2019."
Around the year 2000 we agreed to make a Portuguese version of the Pulse of the Planet, but sadly, technical and bureaucratic difficulties prevented me to go ahead with the plan.
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