Summer sunrise over a lake in the Lee Valley - raucous birds start the day
The Lee Valley reservoir chain comprises thirteen lakes that separate the London Boroughs of Haringey and Enfield to the west from Waltham Forest and Essex in the east. The area is made up of marshes ...
26 Jul 202043min
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway (part 2) - what rush hour sounds like in the hills of mid-Wales
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 afternoon and cars, tractors, farm vehicles and the odd lor...
20 Jul 20201h 3min
Arable farmland in the Essex countryside
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 hushed and rustled and hissed in response to the chang...
12 Jul 202037min
Suffolk Wood (part 4) - 11pm
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 softly. Twigs and dead branches drop surprisingly ...
5 Jul 202058min
A summer walk in rural Hertfordshire - sunshine and showers
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 wheat field. As the clouds approached we recorded ...
29 Jun 202022min
Cathedral of trees - the Forest of Dean (part 1)
About a kilometre into the forest we left the microphones strapped to the trunk of a huge ancient tree. The spot was well off the beaten path and opened onto a natural clearing with a cathedral like a...
21 Jun 202043min
Early summer breezes
On a warm breezy walk in the Essex countryside, we left the microphones in a tree at the top of a rarely used bridleway to record the sound of the wind. The tree was one of an outcrop that lines field...
14 Jun 202043min
Sound-scenes of ocean waves
On-shore wind cuffing at the ears, breakers hauling at pebble banks, walking over shingle ridges to greet the incoming tide. Soft sands, waves retreating leave fizzing foam to dissolve over seaweed at...
8 Jun 202022min
