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
Gulls at low tide along the River Thames
Where the Thames path draws level with the iconic towers of Canary Wharf on the south side of the river at Rotherhithe, we climb up and over the tide wall, then descend steep slippery wooden steps dow...
14 Nov 202032min
Low tide on the Thames Estuary at Benfleet creek (no loud noises and best with headphones)
Bonus episode to mark 10,000 Radio Lento downloads. This is a shorter but no-loud-noise version of episode 29 'Trains planes and estuary birds'. Now in high definition sound, this an opportunity to he...
9 Nov 202033min
Jackdaws and flooded winterbournes - watery emptiness
On the edge of the Bayford Pinetum in rural Hertfordshire, in view of the surrounding farmland, there's a young birch tree, growing in a secluded hollow. In early September the foliage here was hummin...
7 Nov 202055min
