Tawny echoes in the cathedral of trees (sleep safe)
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 tawny owls. Cars passing on the distant forest road ...
31 Okt 202039min
Rain in Abney Park
Tucked behind buildings, encircled by busy roads in the borough of Hackney in London, there's Abney Park. It's one of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries of London with marble-topped tombs half hidden ...
24 Okt 202034min
Wind over the Bridgemarsh Marina on the Dengie Peninsula
While we went off to explore along the river banks of the Crouch, we left the microphones behind to record on the windowsill of a derelict shed just inside the deserted marina on the leeside of the pr...
17 Okt 202025min
Suffolk Wood part 5 - the hour to 1am (sleep safe)
Night has come, and owls, to clear the slate. In this wonderful old wood the August air is still and filled with brightly chirping crickets. A propeller plane hums into the Eastern sky, its sound mixe...
10 Okt 20201h 6min
Wind on water under an equinoctial sky - on the Dengie peninsula Essex
Not a place for unstable microphones. A mile along the winding footpath beside the River Crouch, with Althorne railway station and the ringing masts of Bridgemarsh Marina behind us, the landscape ahea...
3 Okt 202025min
Champagne shingle on Felixstowe beach
It's just after midday in August and very hot. Families are out on the beach sunbathing, children play in the water. At the shoreline, cool waves wash and dissolve onto the shingle. With each recessio...
29 Sep 202019min
Folkestone Warren - Spitfire flypast then coastal murmurings
East Cliff overlooks the Channel and on a clear day like this, has a hazy view of France. On the way down to The Warren Beach, steep down a narrow winding path lined with stubby trees, we found a quie...
26 Sep 202052min
31 Late summer heat bathing under splendid trees - peace in the Clinton-Baker Pinetum
Basking in 30 degree heat borrowed from July, it's a still September day. This forest, set in the Hertfordshire countryside, is at its calmest. As it is so quiet, it may take a little time for your ea...
19 Sep 20201h 13min
