65 Songs from the churchyard of St Mary’s Gilston
The parish church of St Mary, Gilston in Hertfordshire dates from the 13th century. It is set within wide open farmland north of Harlow. It's one of only a handful of buildings, surrounded on all side...
1 Mai 202150min
Waiting for skylarks at the Rye Harbour nature reserve
If I sit here, very still, so as not to scare the water birds, might they come back? I hope so. They've wheeled away again, like they do. It's their drifting altitudinous song that I most want to hear...
24 Apr 202123min
Taking forty winks at the seaside - Norman's Bay, East Sussex (sleep safe)
The perfect spot for a snooze on a windy beach is the leeside of a shingle berm. Sheltered from the onshore breeze, you can't see over to the sea, but you can hear it, with all its wholesome sound. Yo...
17 Apr 202128min
Mistle thrush sings amongst wind hushing conifers
The air above Broxbourne Wood is moving steadily, pushed along by an early April wind. It's catching the tops of the tall brush-like conifers abundant in this part of the wood. They're all about, and ...
10 Apr 202128min
A city at low tide (sleep safe)
It is said that cities never sleep, but from inside north east London's Abney Park nature reserve, the silken hum tells a different story. It's the early hours of Christmas Day 2020. The park has long...
3 Apr 202150min
Soundscenes of spring from the Derbyshire hills
Nestled between high gritstone walls, just off a single track lane about 1000 feet up in the Derbyshire hills, there's an old farmhouse with a chicken coop. Hidden under tall trees it has a panoramic ...
27 Mar 202146min
A fallen tree on Galley Hill
It was, from a bridleway in rural Essex, the long slanted beam that first attracted us over for a better look. A fallen tree, perpendicular to the rest, lying half in and half out of a patch of woodla...
20 Mar 202131min
Suffolk Wood (part 7) 2am - counting the chirps of a dark bush cricket (sleep safe)
When the bell of St Mary's strikes 2am, and the world has dissolved into shadows and echoes of far away things, there's a solace to be found in counting the chirps of a dark bush cricket. When all tha...
13 Mar 20211h 1min
