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 Dec 202036min
Derbyshire gales blow away the cobwebs
It is one of those bright-skied days when the clouds are moving faster than they should and you can hear the weight of the trees. A gale is sweeping the moorside, clearing down the dead wood. Sheltere...
19 Dec 202050min
Night rain falls on a Peak District moorside (part 2 - sleep safe)
It's the early hours of the morning. Shrouded under dark sky and cloud, the rain's falling heavily on the moor above the Whaley Bridge reservoir. It's dowsing the trees in this small wood, pouring and...
12 Dec 202042min
Bucolic contrasts under low cloud - the land between Sandy and St Neots
Tingling droplets still hanging in the air from the clearing mist, with not much daylight left, we finally managed to find a place to record. A lonely outcrop of oak trees beside the trackway, with a ...
5 Dec 202031min
43 Tidal water mirror still - a sound view from Canvey Island
A bird calls out. Its cry carries far out over the water on this, a rare day of no wind. Not even a breeze or a whisper of leaves in the trees. Cows low from farmland on the floodplain beside the Tham...
28 Nov 202031min
42 Night beside a stream in Wales (sleep safe)
Up in the hills about three miles from the mid-Wales village of Ceri, there's a stream. It runs down into the valley mostly parallel to a road. The landscape is largely uninhabited. It's a very peacef...
21 Nov 20201h
