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Quiet field by Young Wood
Episode 47
It took several miles, over claggy east Hertfordshire footpaths and a waterlogged bridleway, to find a quiet field. A peaceful spot where the susurra…
5 years, 10 months ago
Derbyshire gales blow away the cobwebs
Episode 46
It is one of those bright-skied days when the clouds are moving faster than they should and you can hear the weight of the trees. A gale is sweeping …
5 years, 10 months ago
Night rain falls on a Peak District moorside (part 2 - sleep safe)
Episode 45
It's the early hours of the morning. Shrouded under dark sky and cloud, the rain's falling heavily on the moor above the Whaley Bridge reservoir. It'…
5 years, 10 months ago
Bucolic contrasts under low cloud - the land between Sandy and St Neots
Episode 44
Tingling droplets still hanging in the air from the clearing mist, with not much daylight left, we finally managed to find a place to record. A lonel…
5 years, 11 months ago
43 Tidal water mirror still - a sound view from Canvey Island
Episode 43
A bird calls out. Its cry carries far out over the water on this, a rare day of no wind. Not even a breeze or a whisper of leaves in the trees. Cows …
5 years, 11 months ago
42 Night beside a stream in Wales (sleep safe)
Episode 42
Up in the hills about three miles from the mid-Wales village of Ceri, there's a stream. It runs down into the valley mostly parallel to a road. The l…
5 years, 11 months ago
Gulls at low tide along the River Thames
Episode 41
Where the Thames path draws level with the iconic towers of Canary Wharf on the south side of the river at Rotherhithe, we climb up and over the tide…
5 years, 11 months ago
Low tide on the Thames Estuary at Benfleet creek (no loud noises and best with headphones)
Episode 40
Bonus episode to mark 10,000 Radio Lento downloads. This is a shorter but no-loud-noise version of episode 29 'Trains planes and estuary birds'. Now …
6 years ago
Jackdaws and flooded winterbournes - watery emptiness
Episode 39
On the edge of the Bayford Pinetum in rural Hertfordshire, in view of the surrounding farmland, there's a young birch tree, growing in a secluded hol…
6 years ago
Tawny echoes in the cathedral of trees (sleep safe)
Episode 38
Night has fallen over the Forest of Dean. In the clearing where we left the microphones, the cool nocturnal air has begun to echo with the calls of t…
6 years ago