Sound-scenes of Norman's Pond as dusk turns to night - sleep safe
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 Pond, hidden in the scrub, the dark bush crickets have...
13 Feb 202144min
After the dawn chorus in the Forest of Dean
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. A time when the delicate trickles of the night str...
6 Feb 202136min
52 The balm of warm woodland in late summer
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 to remember the feeling of travelling out of Londo...
30 Jan 202131min
Garden birds under a silent sky
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 mark the beginning of a new season, and partly to co...
23 Jan 202151min
50 Singing beck below Black Hill (sleep safe)
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 boggy ground with views over rough pastures and gri...
16 Jan 20211h
Suffolk Wood (part 6) - 1am to 2am sleep safe with owls
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 of time on crickle-dry carpets of leaves. Carried c...
9 Jan 20211h 5min
Abney Park on Christmas Day in the morning
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 microphones are frozen, left behind through a long night an...
2 Jan 202158min
Quiet field by Young Wood
It took several miles, over claggy east Hertfordshire footpaths and a waterlogged bridleway, to find a quiet field. A peaceful spot where the susurrations of the natural landscape outweigh that of the...
26 Des 202036min
