Jon Wilks in Birmingham

Jon Wilks is singlehandedly bringing folk music to a wider audience, through his excellent TradFolk website and Old Songs Podcast and of course by singing and playing the music itself. In this episode, he takes us for a walk around the stomping grounds of ...

Where Have We Been?

Alex and Libby are checking in and sharing some exciting news and updates about the show.Keep in touch: https://www.thismorningwalk.com/Instagram: @thismorningwalkAlex Instagram: @alex_elle Libby Instagram: @parkhere  Blind Nil Instagram: @blindnilaudi...

Welcome To This Morning Walk Season 2

Join hosts Alex Elle and Libby DeLana as they share the lessons they’ve learned on their walking paths, both individually and together.Alex - A New York Times BestSelling Author and writing coach living in DC with her husband and daughters - and Libby - ...

The Russian Organ Scholar of Istanbul

Organist Sergei Lukashuk interviewed in the Crimean Memorial Church, Istanbul, by Jonathan Kempster.Recorded during the IASA Conference at Istanbul University, September 2023.www.achurchnearyou.com/church/33329/2023.iasa-web.org/

A Journey through Ramallah

YA Z AN, a Palestinian Berlin-based artist, travels around his hometown of Ramallah, located in the heart of the West Bank. During his journey, YA Z AN encounters sounds that comfort and remind him of home. He uses binaural technology to collect audio piec...

Sounds of an ascent on foot to the summit of the imposing North Grigna mountain in Italy.

With its peak at 2410 metres in altitude, the North Grigna is an imposing quasi-mythical character in the local culture of the Lombardy region. Those who get to its top can take in a 360-degree view over the Alps, Lake Como and the plains around Milan. Cel...

Sounds of the Earth – Rooks, Bats and Toads

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from rooks on Orkney to a midwife toad chirruping in south-west France. Plus bats in Lancashire and nightingales in Sussex. Recordings by BBC Radio 3 Sunday Breakfast listeners Stephanie Fritchley, Aida...

Fiona Soe Paing in Aberdeenshire

When the Scottish Burmese sound artist Fiona Soe Paing discovered that one of her ancestors was a traditional singer, she resolved to make a contemporary electronic album reflecting the music and folk tales of her home county of Aberdeenshire.On this walk ...

The Music of the Big Walk

On August 4th 2023, Folk on Foot host Matthew Bannister set off on his biggest walk yet. Over two weeks, he covered 186 miles from Wickham Festival in Hampshire to Folk East in Suffolk, raising thousands of pounds for the charity Help Musicians. Every even...

The Hum of the Hive

Beekeeper Anthony Smith looks after several hundred beehives across Herefordshire and South East Wales. This episode of Slow Radio takes us to one of his apiaries where we eavesdrop on Anthony’s activities. It’s the middle of the summer, and the bees a...

The Story of The Big Walk

On 4th August 2023, Folk on Foot host Matthew Bannister set off on his biggest walk yet: from Wickham Festival in Hampshire to Folk East in Suffolk. Over two weeks, he covered 186 miles, took 465,137 steps and raised thousands of pounds for the charity Hel...

Sounds of the Earth – The BBC Wild Isles mix

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. A special edition featuring the Sounds of the Earth mixes of music and the incredible sounds of the insects, birds and animals featured in BBC One's Wild Isles series.The nature sounds were captured by ...

Johnny Campbell & Mikey Kenney on Whernside

This is our highest ever episode. We climbed to the top of Yorkshire’s tallest peak - Whernside - with the singer/songwriter Johnny Campbell and the fiddle player Mikey Kenney to help Johnny record a track for his forthcoming album “True North”. He�...

Transmitter

Across Britain, 352 BBC transmitters stand, mostly on the tops of hills broadcasting sound, music and voices invisibly across the country. In this slow radio episode, Matthew Herbert and a group of recording engineers visited some of these transmitters in ...

Angeline Morrison in North Cornwall

Angeline Morrison’s “The Sorrow Songs - Folk Songs of Black British Experience” was one of the most significant albums of recent times. On this walk near her home in North Cornwall, Angeline talks about her deep love for traditional music and her det...

James Yorkston and Nina Persson in Tentsmuir Forest

The Fife based singer/songwriter James Yorkston and the Cardigans lead singer Nina Persson teamed up with the Swedish Second Hand Orchestra to make the gorgeous album “The Great White Sea Eagle”. On this atmospheric walk through Tentsmuir Forest on the...

Sounds of the Earth – the Blackbird, the Nightingale and the new-born Lamb

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. This springtime special features a blackbird singing at daybreak in Newcastle, a nightingale in the Umbrian foothills, central Italy, and a newly born lamb communicating for the very first time with its...

Decolonising Green Spaces – A Radio Walk in the Chilterns, with Dr Geeta Ludhra.

Dr Geeta Ludhra lives in the Chilterns, she is the daughter of first-generation South Asian parents who emigrated from India in the early 1960s. She is a Lecturer in Education at Brunel University, where she is also engaged in academic research. Geeta wal...

Katherine Priddy at Alvechurch & Tanworth in Arden

Katherine Priddy grew up in the village of Alvechurch in the West Midlands, writing songs as a teenager which eventually ended up on her beautiful debut album “The Eternal Rocks Beneath”.  On a walk in the nearby countryside, she sings two of them bef...

The sounds of the BBC’s Wild Isles

This Slow Radio experience features sounds from the BBC television programme Wild Isles: a chance to revel in the extraordinary sounds recorded and created for the series, without voice-over or music.Using an aural collage of clips, the half-hour soundscap...