Cooling off beside sifting waves at Felixstowe Ferry
Sitting on a warm shingle beach where the river Deben joins the North Sea, feet stretched into the cool water. It's a hot afternoon and the ferry over to Bawdsey has made its last crossing of the day....
15 Aug 202030min
Peace beside the tidal Thames near Stanford-le-Hope in the county of Essex
Forty minutes walk from Stanford-le-Hope railway station, along residential avenues and a service road that leads to the nature reserve, past a single story brick built municipal transformer station t...
8 Aug 202023min
Brutalism and crickets of the A10 flyover
Beside the A10 flyover in the Hertfordshire countryside, crickets bask in summer heat and road noise. The flyover has been designed to reduce the noise and impact of the road across the valley. It isn...
1 Aug 202014min
Summer sunrise over a lake in the Lee Valley - raucous birds start the day
The Lee Valley reservoir chain comprises thirteen lakes that separate the London Boroughs of Haringey and Enfield to the west from Waltham Forest and Essex in the east. The area is made up of marshes ...
26 Jul 202043min
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway (part 2) - what rush hour sounds like in the hills of mid-Wales
Over the hills above the sun is going down. It's been a warm dry April day along the Kerry Ridgeway. High pressure, light breezes. It's late afternoon and cars, tractors, farm vehicles and the odd lor...
20 Jul 20201h 3min
Arable farmland in the Essex countryside
Along a narrow footpath that threaded through wide open farmland we came across a lonely outcrop of young and exposed oak trees. Their dry leaves hushed and rustled and hissed in response to the chang...
12 Jul 202037min
Suffolk Wood (part 4) - 11pm
Inside the wood the ambience is changing from evening to night. Now it is owned by the crickets, hidden in carpets of leaves. Muntjac deer move about softly. Twigs and dead branches drop surprisingly ...
5 Jul 202058min
A summer walk in rural Hertfordshire - sunshine and showers
Yesterday on an ancient bridleway that runs through open farmland, just before the rain clouds caught us up, we stopped for a picnic on the edge of a wheat field. As the clouds approached we recorded ...
29 Jun 202022min
