Hugh Huddy
Radio Lento
Not specifically for children, but each episode features a lovely landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful.
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Episode One: Episode 1 – Suffolk wood at 6am
This is an Episodic show. You can listen to it in any order, but episode one is always a great place to start.
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Created by: Hugh Huddy
Started: March 29th, 2020
Status: Active, 277 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
77 The cuckoo of Swanscombe Marsh
30:20 | Episode: 77 | July 24th, 2021
Swanscombe is one of the last surviving brownfield sites in the Thames Estuary where threatened wildlife can live. On the Kent side of the Thames, to the east of the QEII bridge, opposite Grays on the Essex side, it is an oasis of natural quiet. We took a train and a bus to get there, then walked a sloping path, paved then muddy with the sound of the road dying away. The marsh was full of fascinating life, though empty of people, except for a couple of weekday birders who gave us a wave.
Last pasture before the sea – Winchelsea to Rye
35:31 | Episode: 76 | July 17th, 2021
Our first really clear sound-view of the landscape came along a footpath a mile or so from Winchelsea station, with the A259 behind us and, according to the map at least, the open sea ahead. It was in all its peaceful wideness, its pastoral mildness, there to be heard, from inside a little outcrop of blackthorn trees. Every branch covered in the healthiest grey lichen we’d ever seen. Blossom just starting to appear. We named it lichen thicket.
75 Yacht masts on the estuary at Wrabness (part 1)
32:37 | Episode: 75 | July 10th, 2021
We stopped to step over a large brown caterpillar mid-way across the rough brambled footpath. All around us light breezes were sweeping through the high grasses, nettles and reeds. Miles and miles, of wide open estuary land. Then in the distance, amongst the just audible drones of lone cars on winding country roads, we heard the plaintive drooping call of a curlew. The water was close. The map showed we’d converge, ahead about a quarter of a mile.
74 Night shallowing in a Suffolk Wood – listen with headphones (sleep safe)
01:03:48 | Episode: 74 | July 3rd, 2021
This is part eight, 3am to 4am of the twelve hour Suffolk Wood recording. We made it almost four years ago on a balmy summer night in August by leaving a pair of sensitive microphones spaced out like ears, to record non-stop in the heart of an uninhabited rural wood in Dedham Vale. It was the first overnight recording we ever made, and we had no idea what the microphones would hear.
Slow rhythms of the Hoo Peninsula
47:00 | Episode: 73 | June 26th, 2021
Several miles up the sun-baked track, along overgrown footpaths and through fields high with meadow grass, lie the watery ditches of the Higham Marshes nature reserve. Nestled within the wide expanse of partly farmed, partly inhabited, but mostly untended land that runs along the lower reaches of the Thames Estuary in Kent. On a barmy summer’s day, blown about by a friendly wind, it’s a place of retreat and of well tempered quiet.
The tunnel, the towpath and the window – under the M6 at Spaghetti Junction
24:13 | Episode: 72 | June 19th, 2021
Set free from its cradled bowl, the smoke from the bargeman’s pipe rose straight, into the sky. Lighter than air, the burning vapours knew all-too-well where they wanted to go. Up! And so up they went. Unravelling coils of wisdom, racing towards one small window of blue in the vast ashen sky.
Wading cows and a passing cuckoo – the lakes and woodland of Chatsworth
30:03 | Episode: 71 | June 12th, 2021
Mid-afternoon. June hot. An overgrown track on the Chatsworth Estate, close to the peaceful lakes above the house, between meadows and dense woodland. An abundance of fresh hoof marks. A route used not by people, but by livestock changing fields. Hedgerows scent the quiet air with pollen. Cow parsley, moist nettles, something like aniseed. Nobody is around, so we leave the microphones behind to record, on the trunk of a tree facing straight into the sound vista.
70 – Blue sky. Empty beach. Low tide.
36:44 | Episode: 70 | June 5th, 2021
It’s past midday on a late May day in Suffolk and the sun is pouring down onto a calm sea. It’s shining, for the first time this year, with that summer strength that makes you stop, to really take in the moment. It’s perfect, here at the shoreline, not far from where the River Deben joins the sea, the beaches a mix of shingle and soft sand.
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Created by: Hugh Huddy
Started:
March 29th, 2020
Status: Active, 277 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
This is just so relaxing to listen to.