Rising tide in the rock garden - the sea wall near Bradwell-on-Sea
Stop walking! There's a place to sit. Roll up your jacket to make a cushion and perch on the rocks, just for a moment, to take in the view. Look! Over the expanse of cloud-dappled water, beyond, where...
21 Aug 202137min
A doze in the grass on Wallasea Island (High-def sound and sleep safe)
This, is summer island time. Sizzled by crickets, gusted to and fro by hot marshy breezes, a distant marine vessel softly thrums the air with a low soporific hum. Occasional planes pass lazily over. T...
14 Aug 202139min
Essence of estuary
Plunge off the train and smile at the fresh air of nowhere! This is Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex. All ground and sky. The bell in the driver's cab rings twice, then twice again, and it's off. Next stop, s...
7 Aug 202132min
78 The birds that sing on the cusp of night - a leafy ravine in the Peak District (sleep safe after 16 mins)
Early June days, up in the green of the Peak District hills, do not give way easily to night. The birds won't let them. Brimming over with life and song, they sing at the dying light to stay, with all...
31 Jul 202143min
77 The cuckoo of Swanscombe Marsh
Swanscombe is one of the last surviving brownfield sites in the Thames Estuary where threatened wildlife can live. On the Kent side of the Thames, to the east of the QEII bridge, opposite Grays on the...
24 Jul 202130min
Last pasture before the sea - Winchelsea to Rye
Our first really clear sound-view of the landscape came along a footpath a mile or so from Winchelsea station, with the A259 behind us and, according to the map at least, the open sea ahead. It was in...
17 Jul 202135min
75 Yacht masts on the estuary at Wrabness (part 1)
We stopped to step over a large brown caterpillar mid-way across the rough brambled footpath. All around us light breezes were sweeping through the high grasses, nettles and reeds. Miles and miles, of...
10 Jul 202132min
74 Night shallowing in a Suffolk Wood - listen with headphones (sleep safe)
This is part eight, 3am to 4am of the twelve hour Suffolk Wood recording. We made it almost four years ago on a balmy summer night in August by leaving a pair of sensitive microphones spaced out like ...
3 Jul 20211h 3min
