We are back with our 15th CycloPod Episode! This time we are joined by Anya Crocker, who is a research fellow in Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate at the University of Southampton. In this podcast, we hear about Anya's 2022 Nature Geoscience paper looking at astronomically controlled Saharan aridity in the Late Miocene, with surprising insight into how long there has been a desert in this region. The Intro music of this podcast is again an excerpt of a piece based on the North Atlantic Oscillation from the "Aphrodite's Dew" book and CD project by Arvid Tomayko and Sandro Montanari. Check out more of their work at arvidtomayko.com. Link to Anya's UoS profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x689g/doctor-anya-crocker Link to 2022 Nat Geo paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-00990-7