Champagne shingle on Felixstowe beach
It's just after midday in August and very hot. Families are out on the beach sunbathing, children play in the water. At the shoreline, cool waves wash and dissolve onto the shingle. With each recessio...
29 Sep 202019min
Folkestone Warren - Spitfire flypast then coastal murmurings
East Cliff overlooks the Channel and on a clear day like this, has a hazy view of France. On the way down to The Warren Beach, steep down a narrow winding path lined with stubby trees, we found a quie...
26 Sep 202052min
31 Late summer heat bathing under splendid trees - peace in the Clinton-Baker Pinetum
Basking in 30 degree heat borrowed from July, it's a still September day. This forest, set in the Hertfordshire countryside, is at its calmest. As it is so quiet, it may take a little time for your ea...
19 Sep 20201h 13min
30 Wind and time passes in the Forest of Dean
It's 8am and deep in the forest, steady banks of wind are pushing into the upper canopy. Above, the sky is pale blue, bright. It is late May, the day begins. This is the last section of a 12 hour all-...
12 Sep 202039min
Trains, planes and estuary birds
It's a cloudy late August afternoon on the banks of the Thames Estuary near Benfleet in Essex. Wild gusts of wind race in over the water. On this side, spots of rain float in the air but a mile away o...
5 Sep 202039min
Night rain falls on a Peak District moorside
It's 1am. In a remote wood set amongst steeply sloping fields above the now infamous Todbrook reservoir in Whaley Bridge Derbyshire. Heavy drops of rain have started to fall. Each fleeting drop punctu...
29 Aug 202050min
Dead of night beside a lake in the Lee Valley Park - sleep special
It is 3am. At the water's edge, the shadows are thick. A single star reflects in the ink black water, bobbed by passing ripples. The wide-open waterscape is alive with the sound of birds, swimming and...
26 Aug 20201h 2min
August breezes through an ancient Oak
In the middle of a sundrenched field in Gilston Park near Harlow in Essex, a crow calls far-off to the left, a bird scarer fires shots to the right. It's a warm afternoon and there's a brisk August wi...
22 Aug 202034min
