Seaside brutalism - at the Port of Felixstowe
On the beach, sat within wetting distance of the water's edge, there's a point where the noise from the container port begins to meld in with the shingle soft washing to and fro of the waves. Here, ab...
6 Mars 202130min
56 The whispering trees of Bayford Wood
It was our first visit to Bayford Wood. A country walk, on a bright July day which was not quite as warm as it should be. A walk under an undecided sky, from time-to-time enhanced with inexplicable fl...
27 Feb 202146min
Light rain beside the lane near Sandy
It's all woods and rolling fields in rural Bedfordshire. Good for long walks under wide skies. A chance to get away from it all. On a wet February day, after splashing along muddy lanes and mud slidin...
20 Feb 202151min
Sound-scenes of Norman's Pond as dusk turns to night - sleep safe
Dusk. The gates of the Lee Valley Park are shut. The people are gone. The miles of footpaths are empty, save for crossing ducks. Beside Norman's Pond, hidden in the scrub, the dark bush crickets have...
13 Feb 202144min
After the dawn chorus in the Forest of Dean
There is a time when thin light broadens into day, when the sun is properly up and warm and every diurnal creature is settling into its daily rhythm. A time when the delicate trickles of the night str...
6 Feb 202136min
52 The balm of warm woodland in late summer
Locked-down and nowhere to go. With pounded pavements all pounded, and back gardens beleaguered under pallid skies so dull sodden with wet, it's hard to remember the feeling of travelling out of Londo...
30 Jan 202131min
Garden birds under a silent sky
Every year, on or near the 4th of April, we leave the microphones out in the back garden to record the dawn chorus. It's a simple ritual, partly to mark the beginning of a new season, and partly to co...
23 Jan 202151min
50 Singing beck below Black Hill (sleep safe)
High on a Derbyshire moor below the summit of Black Hill, between Disley and Whaley Bridge, there's an ancient trackway. It runs almost level across boggy ground with views over rough pastures and gri...
16 Jan 20211h
