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Dead of night beside a lake in the Lee Valley Park - sleep special
Episode 27
It is 3am. At the water's edge, the shadows are thick. A single star reflects in the ink black water, bobbed by passing ripples. The wide-open waters…
6 years, 2 months ago
August breezes through an ancient Oak
Episode 26
In the middle of a sundrenched field in Gilston Park near Harlow in Essex, a crow calls far-off to the left, a bird scarer fires shots to the right. …
6 years, 2 months ago
Cooling off beside sifting waves at Felixstowe Ferry
Episode 25
Sitting on a warm shingle beach where the river Deben joins the North Sea, feet stretched into the cool water. It's a hot afternoon and the ferry ove…
6 years, 2 months ago
Peace beside the tidal Thames near Stanford-le-Hope in the county of Essex
Episode 24
Forty minutes walk from Stanford-le-Hope railway station, along residential avenues and a service road that leads to the nature reserve, past a singl…
6 years, 2 months ago
Brutalism and crickets of the A10 flyover
Episode 23
Beside the A10 flyover in the Hertfordshire countryside, crickets bask in summer heat and road noise. The flyover has been designed to reduce the noi…
6 years, 3 months ago
Summer sunrise over a lake in the Lee Valley - raucous birds start the day
Episode 22
The Lee Valley reservoir chain comprises thirteen lakes that separate the London Boroughs of Haringey and Enfield to the west from Waltham Forest and…
6 years, 3 months ago
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway (part 2) - what rush hour sounds like in the hills of mid-Wales
Episode 21
Over the hills above the sun is going down. It's been a warm dry April day along the Kerry Ridgeway. High pressure, light breezes. It's late afternoo…
6 years, 3 months ago
Arable farmland in the Essex countryside
Episode 20
Along a narrow footpath that threaded through wide open farmland we came across a lonely outcrop of young and exposed oak trees. Their dry leaves hus…
6 years, 3 months ago
Suffolk Wood (part 4) - 11pm
Episode 19
Inside the wood the ambience is changing from evening to night. Now it is owned by the crickets, hidden in carpets of leaves. Muntjac deer move about…
6 years, 3 months ago
A summer walk in rural Hertfordshire - sunshine and showers
Episode 18
Yesterday on an ancient bridleway that runs through open farmland, just before the rain clouds caught us up, we stopped for a picnic on the edge of a…
6 years, 4 months ago