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Seaside brutalism - at the Port of Felixstowe
Episode 57
On the beach, sat within wetting distance of the water's edge, there's a point where the noise from the container port begins to meld in with the shi…
5 years, 8 months ago
56 The whispering trees of Bayford Wood
Episode 56
It was our first visit to Bayford Wood. A country walk, on a bright July day which was not quite as warm as it should be. A walk under an undecided s…
5 years, 8 months ago
Light rain beside the lane near Sandy
Episode 55
It's all woods and rolling fields in rural Bedfordshire. Good for long walks under wide skies. A chance to get away from it all. On a wet February da…
5 years, 8 months ago
Sound-scenes of Norman's Pond as dusk turns to night - sleep safe
Episode 54
Dusk.
The gates of the Lee Valley Park are shut. The people are gone. The miles of footpaths are empty, save for crossing ducks. Beside Norman's Pon…
5 years, 8 months ago
After the dawn chorus in the Forest of Dean
Episode 53
There is a time when thin light broadens into day, when the sun is properly up and warm and every diurnal creature is settling into its daily rhythm.…
5 years, 9 months ago
52 The balm of warm woodland in late summer
Episode 52
Locked-down and nowhere to go. With pounded pavements all pounded, and back gardens beleaguered under pallid skies so dull sodden with wet, it's hard…
5 years, 9 months ago
Garden birds under a silent sky
Episode 51
Every year, on or near the 4th of April, we leave the microphones out in the back garden to record the dawn chorus. It's a simple ritual, partly to m…
5 years, 9 months ago
50 Singing beck below Black Hill (sleep safe)
Episode 50
High on a Derbyshire moor below the summit of Black Hill, between Disley and Whaley Bridge, there's an ancient trackway. It runs almost level across …
5 years, 9 months ago
Suffolk Wood (part 6) - 1am to 2am sleep safe with owls
Episode 49
All is still in the wood. It is mid-way through a barmy August night. There is no breeze to rustle the trees. Dark bush crickets trichit the passage …
5 years, 9 months ago
Abney Park on Christmas Day in the morning
Episode 48
Through the bare limbed trees of Abney Park nature reserve in Hackney, London a song thrush sings sweetly. It's first light. The air and the micropho…
5 years, 10 months ago