Essence of estuary
Plunge off the train and smile at the fresh air of nowhere! This is Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex. All ground and sky. The bell in the driver's cab rings twice, then twice again, and it's off. Next stop, s...
7 Aug 202132min
78 The birds that sing on the cusp of night - a leafy ravine in the Peak District (sleep safe after 16 mins)
Early June days, up in the green of the Peak District hills, do not give way easily to night. The birds won't let them. Brimming over with life and song, they sing at the dying light to stay, with all...
31 Jul 202143min
77 The cuckoo of Swanscombe Marsh
Swanscombe is one of the last surviving brownfield sites in the Thames Estuary where threatened wildlife can live. On the Kent side of the Thames, to the east of the QEII bridge, opposite Grays on the...
24 Jul 202130min
Last pasture before the sea - Winchelsea to Rye
Our first really clear sound-view of the landscape came along a footpath a mile or so from Winchelsea station, with the A259 behind us and, according to the map at least, the open sea ahead. It was in...
17 Jul 202135min
75 Yacht masts on the estuary at Wrabness (part 1)
We stopped to step over a large brown caterpillar mid-way across the rough brambled footpath. All around us light breezes were sweeping through the high grasses, nettles and reeds. Miles and miles, of...
10 Jul 202132min
74 Night shallowing in a Suffolk Wood - listen with headphones (sleep safe)
This is part eight, 3am to 4am of the twelve hour Suffolk Wood recording. We made it almost four years ago on a balmy summer night in August by leaving a pair of sensitive microphones spaced out like ...
3 Jul 20211h 3min
Slow rhythms of the Hoo Peninsula
Several miles up the sun-baked track, along overgrown footpaths and through fields high with meadow grass, lie the watery ditches of the Higham Marshes nature reserve. Nestled within the wide expanse ...
26 Jun 202147min
The tunnel, the towpath and the window - under the M6 at Spaghetti Junction
Set free from its cradled bowl, the smoke from the bargeman's pipe rose straight, into the sky. Lighter than air, the burning vapours knew all-too-well where they wanted to go. Up! And so up they went...
19 Jun 202124min
