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Created by: Hugh Huddy

UK under 5's6-1011+

Started: March 29th, 2020

Status: Active, 287 episodes

Kind: Episodic

Language: English

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Episodes

Essence of estuary
32:00 | Episode: 79 | August 7th, 2021

Plunge off the train and smile at the fresh air of nowhere! This is Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex. All ground and sky. The bell in the driver’s cab rings twice, then twice again, and it’s off. Next stop, somewhere else. The ensuing feeling of loneliness is only temporary.

78 The birds that sing on the cusp of night – a leafy ravine in the Peak District (sleep safe after 16 mins)
43:27 | Episode: 78 | July 31st, 2021

Early June days, up in the green of the Peak District hills, do not give way easily to night. The birds won’t let them. Brimming over with life and song, they sing at the dying light to stay, with all the gusto of dawn.

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.




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Created by: Hugh Huddy
Started: March 29th, 2020
Status: Active, 287 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English

UKunder 5's6-1011+
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