Radio Lento

181 Woodland scapes special – August intermission 3
^{23:50 | Episode: 185 | August 19th, 2023}

For this penultimate intermission episode, we’ve made you a montage of sound-scenes selected from four enchanting woodland episodes. A forest ravine high in the Derbyshire hills. Under a tree above the town of Wooler, in Northumberland. A waterfall gorge on Dartmoor. And finally, the mysterious murmurings from deep within the Forest of Dean. 

180 Coastal scapes special – August intermission 2
^{27:21 | Episode: 184 | August 12th, 2023}

We’re taking an intermission during August. Rather than disappearing, we’re made you a montage of sound-feels selected from previous episodes. This week’s theme is coastal.

179 Rain scapes special – August intermission 1 (sleep safe)
^{23:46 | Episode: 183 | August 5th, 2023}

We’re taking an intermission during August. Rather than disappearing, we’re sharing a different type of episode, each with a theme, using some of the best bits from previous episodes. This week’s theme is rain. 

178 Waves of the intertidal zone (Don’t forget Lento’s built for headphones!)
^{31:27 | Episode: 182 | July 29th, 2023}

A shadow grey rock, the size of a stranded ship. Radiating heat, remembered from the midday sun. Around it, rock pools, and smooth curving shapes. Like sleeping seals. You’re out. Alone. For a late evening walk. Overhead, and behind, the sky is a deep, deepening blue. An end-of-day blue. But to your right, on the low west horizon, it’s still blazing bright. 

177 Summer meadow woodland edge
^{40:43 | Episode: 181 | July 22nd, 2023}

You find yourself, suddenly out. On the other side of the wood. The edge, of a wide open empty field. A meadow. Tall elegant trees, given way to a high, bright sky. 

176 Early morning below Nothe Fort
^{36:53 | Episode: 180 | July 15th, 2023}

The soundscene is of a smooth, sunrise sea, heard from a tree, growing up out of a bundle of boulders, close to the water’s edge. It’s early April, and just after daybreak. The Lento kit is in the tree, capturing the wide spatial quiet of this place with nobody about, right beside Nothe Fort in Weymouth on the south coast of England. Ahead, looking south, the sea. West is Portland. East is Weymouth, then Durdle Door, near to Lulworth Cove. 

175 Night train sleeper (sleep safe)
^{01:00:59 | Episode: 179 | July 8th, 2023}

174 Where cool woodland meets the summer sea (an afternoon snooze)
^{38:43 | Episode: 178 | July 1st, 2023}

At the far end of the long sandy beach at Tenby there’s an area of cool, shady woodland. From the distance and under hot summer sunshine, it looks idyllic. Inviting. A shady promontory on the horizon that curves and blurs down into the sea.