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May rain after daybreak
Episode 67
It must have broken through a mist of spring rain when it came, the dawn, the first light of day. It would have come into a watery sky too, one busy …
5 years, 5 months ago
Listening to the longshore drift
Episode 66
There's a point along the promenade at Bexhill-on-Sea where the pull of the crashing waves outweighs the ice cream hubbub underneath the pavilion. Wh…
5 years, 6 months ago
65 Songs from the churchyard of St Mary’s Gilston
Episode 65
The parish church of St Mary, Gilston in Hertfordshire dates from the 13th century. It is set within wide open farmland north of Harlow. It's one of …
5 years, 6 months ago
Waiting for skylarks at the Rye Harbour nature reserve
Episode 64
If I sit here, very still, so as not to scare the water birds, might they come back? I hope so. They've wheeled away again, like they do. It's their …
5 years, 6 months ago
Taking forty winks at the seaside - Norman's Bay, East Sussex (sleep safe)
Episode 63
The perfect spot for a snooze on a windy beach is the leeside of a shingle berm. Sheltered from the onshore breeze, you can't see over to the sea, bu…
5 years, 6 months ago
Mistle thrush sings amongst wind hushing conifers
Episode 62
The air above Broxbourne Wood is moving steadily, pushed along by an early April wind. It's catching the tops of the tall brush-like conifers abundan…
5 years, 7 months ago
A city at low tide (sleep safe)
Episode 61
It is said that cities never sleep, but from inside north east London's Abney Park nature reserve, the silken hum tells a different story. It's the e…
5 years, 7 months ago
Soundscenes of spring from the Derbyshire hills
Episode 60
Nestled between high gritstone walls, just off a single track lane about 1000 feet up in the Derbyshire hills, there's an old farmhouse with a chicke…
5 years, 7 months ago
A fallen tree on Galley Hill
Episode 59
It was, from a bridleway in rural Essex, the long slanted beam that first attracted us over for a better look. A fallen tree, perpendicular to the re…
5 years, 7 months ago
Suffolk Wood (part 7) 2am - counting the chirps of a dark bush cricket (sleep safe)
Episode 58
When the bell of St Mary's strikes 2am, and the world has dissolved into shadows and echoes of far away things, there's a solace to be found in count…
5 years, 7 months ago