Gulls at low tide along the River Thames
Where the Thames path draws level with the iconic towers of Canary Wharf on the south side of the river at Rotherhithe, we climb up and over the tide wall, then descend steep slippery wooden steps dow...
14 Nov 202032min
Low tide on the Thames Estuary at Benfleet creek (no loud noises and best with headphones)
Bonus episode to mark 10,000 Radio Lento downloads. This is a shorter but no-loud-noise version of episode 29 'Trains planes and estuary birds'. Now in high definition sound, this an opportunity to he...
9 Nov 202033min
Jackdaws and flooded winterbournes - watery emptiness
On the edge of the Bayford Pinetum in rural Hertfordshire, in view of the surrounding farmland, there's a young birch tree, growing in a secluded hollow. In early September the foliage here was hummin...
7 Nov 202055min
Tawny echoes in the cathedral of trees (sleep safe)
Night has fallen over the Forest of Dean. In the clearing where we left the microphones, the cool nocturnal air has begun to echo with the calls of tawny owls. Cars passing on the distant forest road ...
31 Okt 202039min
Rain in Abney Park
Tucked behind buildings, encircled by busy roads in the borough of Hackney in London, there's Abney Park. It's one of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries of London with marble-topped tombs half hidden ...
24 Okt 202034min
Wind over the Bridgemarsh Marina on the Dengie Peninsula
While we went off to explore along the river banks of the Crouch, we left the microphones behind to record on the windowsill of a derelict shed just inside the deserted marina on the leeside of the pr...
17 Okt 202025min
Suffolk Wood part 5 - the hour to 1am (sleep safe)
Night has come, and owls, to clear the slate. In this wonderful old wood the August air is still and filled with brightly chirping crickets. A propeller plane hums into the Eastern sky, its sound mixe...
10 Okt 20201h 6min
Wind on water under an equinoctial sky - on the Dengie peninsula Essex
Not a place for unstable microphones. A mile along the winding footpath beside the River Crouch, with Althorne railway station and the ringing masts of Bridgemarsh Marina behind us, the landscape ahea...
3 Okt 202025min
