111 Soundscenes of estuary rain
For this week's episode we head back to the rugged seawall below Burnham-on-Crouch, to witness the sound of summer rain as it falls onto inland tidal water. We've not actually listened back to this au...
19 Mar 202231min
110 Rain falls in Banfield Wood
Sky greying. Rain coming. A muddy path under bare trees. This is the wood where we should record. Beneath a buzzard circling, a perfect tree, mid-point within the forest. Mid-point, with a wide and de...
12 Mar 202241min
109 Here at the river’s edge
Now you're here, unhook the burden, and let it rest upon the wild grass. Walk away. Away from it, and down, onto the rocks. Away, and over the wetted stones, around the weeds that smell of sea, and ri...
5 Mar 202232min
108 Song thrush sings in twilight gales
We were told a song thrush lives up in the wood. The old place on the side of an exposed and remote hill, where sheep are kept in a paddock under the shelter of trees. Tall firs, holly trees, hawthorn...
26 Feb 202244min
107 Shellness bleak where land meets sea (best heard with time and headphones)
This, is bleak. Wave, weather worn, bleak. Windswept, land end bleak. What we've come for. An exposed area of land that noses out into the North Sea. Its tidal zones are made of bleached dry shells in...
19 Feb 202241min
106 In time the wren will come - Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway
Cold clear water flows, through a dell beneath trees. Hidden behind brambles. A place for the foraging bee. Here, is a place that's miles away. Is a place, steep down beside a country road, that's lef...
12 Feb 202251min
105 Boy dog beach fossils
It was last weekend when we made a long train journey out to the North Essex coast, to reach Walton-on-the-Naze. We planned the trip because our maps showed it to be an area out on a limb, and free of...
5 Feb 202232min
104 While away in winter woodland (a clear mind special)
December is a very quiet month for natural sound out here in the walkable wilderness. Wind moaning in the telegraph wires, and rain spattering into flooded puddles. And when you reach them, the woods,...
29 Jan 202235min
