Programme one begins on the flat shores of Friesland, where Piet Paulusman, a local weather forecaster, speaks in words and in a way it is thought 'English' was spoken here over 1,500 years ago.
We follow the highway north, taking in the faded charm of towns including Gilgandra and Coonamble, the rugged beauty of the Warrumbungles, and the beginning of the great, flat plains of NSW's north-west.
Washington Heights, a mostly Latino enclave perched near the northern tip of the island of Manhattan, begins where the flat streets of the Upper West Side contrast into steep hills.
Those at the beginning of their Flat Earth journey typically encounter hundreds of ideas – some alike, some wildly contradictory – in a very short space of time.
When my parents arrived to Paris from Tunisia in the beginning of the 1970s, their first flat was in Barbès-Rochechouart, which is near Pigalle.
It all begins with the flat of the title, an apartment in Tel Aviv belonging to Gerda Tuchler, the grandmother of director Arnon Goldfinger.
(The pearls, incidentally, covered up a hollow in her neck. In the beginning of the show, she wore flats; the heels were an attempt to stay taller than the growing boys).
He describes himself as "bilingual," fond of using dialect in speech and also to discuss serious questions of race, class and politics in the novel, but equally comfortable employing standard speech in interviews and the classroom, with an accent that is beginning to incorporate the flat tones of the American Midwest.
His design ideas began with the flat, rectangle of the fabric itself, as did the Japanese kimonos and North African caftans he admired.
