Glenn Gould's first entry in his Solitude Trilogy is a radio documentary built entirely from voice, no picture beyond whatever image accompanies this upload. Gould interviewed five people who had lived or worked in the Canadian Arctic, a nurse, a surveyor, a government agent, a sociologist, and a geographer, then layered their voices over one another so they speak simultaneously, a technique he called contrapuntal radio, borrowed from the structure of a fugue. The result is less a report on the North than an argument about solitude, isolation, and what draws people to empty places, told through overlapping testimony rather than a single narrator's summary. A train's sound recorded on the Muskeg Express frames the piece, carrying the listener north and back again. Made for the CBC, it treats sound editing as compositional work rather than illustration, and it remains one of the strangest, most formally ambitious pieces of broadcast journalism ever aired on national radio.