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Festival of LOVE: The Traditional Songs

17 Feb, 2021 · Folk on Foot
23 amazing folk acts each performing a traditional love song for the Folk on Foot Festival of LOVE on Valentine’s Day 2021, featuring Nancy Kerr and James Fagan: The Streams of Lovely Nancy: Heidi Talbot: The Blackest Crow; Seth Lakeman: Portrait of My W...

Festival of LOVE: The Covers

15 Feb, 2021 · Folk on Foot
23 amazing folk acts each performing a cover version of a love song for the Folk on Foot Festival of LOVE on Valentine’s Day 2021, featuring Heidi Talbot: I Love You/Tom Waits and Allelujah/First of a Million Kisses/Fairground Attraction;  Seth Lakeman:...

Take Me to Your Happy Place

31 Jan, 2021 · Slow Radio
Winterwatch's Gillian Burke chooses music and natural sounds that encourage her own personal wellbeing, including lapping waves, doves and crickets from her childhood in Kenya.

The Rheingans Sisters in Grindleford

22 Jan, 2021 · Folk on Foot
Come with us to the back garden of a house in the Peak District village of Grindleford. There, in a magical atmospheric workshop with fiddles, banjos and drying gourds hanging from the ceiling, we find the Rheingans Sisters and their Dad Helmut, who makes ...

Mindful Mix 01 from Calming Times

18 Jan, 2021 · Walks around Britain
In these uncertain times, it's more important than ever to take time out from the day and be mindful of our place in nature. So we've made Calming Times - a new series of scenic videos and mindful podcasts to help us switch off from the human world and re...

Lighting the Beacon

28 Dec, 2020 · Slow Radio
A slow radio journey into illumination, drawing inspiration from light beacons and signal fires. Used across the centuries as alert systems and warnings of invasion, but also for celebrations and as emblems of hope, this programme lights up the darkness, c...

Richard Thompson in Muswell Hill (and other parts of London)

18 Dec, 2020 · Folk on Foot
The legendary guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson takes Matthew Bannister for a walk around the areas of London where he grew up, began playing the guitar, formed Fairport Convention (inventing English folk rock)  and joined the vibrant music scene ...

Sounds of the Earth – December

13 Dec, 2020 · Slow Radio
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the banks of the River Wye to Kenton, near Newcastle, via the Bristol Downs and Manningtree. With field recordings by Karen Hall, Tim Dowling, Stefan Taylor and Chris Watson.

S2 Ep38: The Best of the Walks Around Britain podcast – the Pennine Way

10 Dec, 2020 · Walks around Britain
Andrew White talks to walker Rose Hakin and writer Damian Hall about their experiences of walking the Pennine Way, and adventurer Paul Rose chats to Andrew about his BBC TV series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Pennine Way. The Walks Around Brita...

Soller – We're All Going on an Aural Holiday

29 Nov, 2020 · Slow Radio
Take your ears on a binaural summer holiday through the Mallorcan town of Soller, from sunrise to sundown. The sleepy town awakes into market day, and tourists arrive at the Miro-decorated train station before climbing aboard the tram that runs through the...

S2 Ep37: Fiona Russell on surviving lockdown as an outdoor writer and Oliver Smith on Snowdon

26 Nov, 2020 · Walks around Britain
Andrew White chats to the creator of the Fiona Outdoors website - Fiona Russell - about surviving lockdown when you are an outdoors writer and blogger. And travel writer Oliver Smith discusses his experience of one of the busiest mountains in the world sud...

S2 Ep36: "Behind The Lens" with outdoor photographer Jon Sparks

18 Nov, 2020 · Walks around Britain
In the first of an occasional series "Behind The Lens", Andrew talks to Jon Sparks about how he got into outdoor photography, and talks us through the story behind three of his favourite photographs. The images talked about in the podcast are here... http...

6 Songs from Season 5

13 Nov, 2020 · Folk on Foot
A selection of unique performances recorded on location for Folk on Foot by Frank Turner, Kitty Macfarlane, Chris Wood, Johnny Flynn, Ninebarrow and O’Hooley and Tidow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

S2 Ep35: Favourite walks with Cumbrian Rambler Beth Pipe and TV travel presenter Alex Outhwaite

10 Nov, 2020 · Walks around Britain
Andrew White chats to the writer and broadcaster Beth Pipe - otherwise known as Cumbrian Rambler - about her writing career, her love of the outdoors and gets her favourite walks in Cumbria. And TV travel presenter Alex Outhwaite talks about walking and ho...

Household Gods

1 Nov, 2020 · Slow Radio
Composer Iain Chambers’s celebration of the domestic sound world, starting in the present day before travelling back in time.Lockdown gave us the excuse to consider our own home environments in a new way. Household Gods takes this new focus further, exp...

O'Hooley & Tidow in the Colne Valley

22 Oct, 2020 · Folk on Foot
Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow have an uncanny ability to move you to tears one moment then have you roaring with laughter the next. In summer 2020 they were planning to capitalise on the new found fame caused by having their song “Gentleman Jack” ...

Sounds of the Earth – October

18 Oct, 2020 · Slow Radio
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Flow Country of the Scottish Highlands to the Bristol Downs, via Chesil Beach and an East Sussex bluebell wood.With field recordings by Chris Watson, Timothy Dowling, Martin Handley, and Steve...

Ninebarrow at Nine Barrow Down

8 Oct, 2020 · Folk on Foot
The multi award winning Dorset duo Ninebarrow take Matthew Bannister for a walk in the glorious countryside of the Isle of Purbeck. Their exquisite harmonies ring out across the Bronze Age burial mounds at Nine Barrow Down (which gave the band its name) as...

S2 Ep34: New Walks Around Britain Presenter Vikki Lee and trying to save the planet with Kate Rawles

8 Oct, 2020 · Walks around Britain
Andrew White chats to one of the new presenters of Walks Around Britain - Vikkie Lee - to discover more about her walks and love of the great outdoors. And writer, lecturer and environmental campaigner Kate Rawles talks to Andrew about how she became an ou...

Penguins v Seals – Tristan da Cunha

4 Oct, 2020 · Slow Radio
With extraordinary close-up recordings of his life as a vet, the bird population, the wildlife, the sea and the shore, veterinarian Joe Hollins brings his time on the island of Tristan da Cunha to the ears of the Slow Radio listener.Joe has recorded over 2...

zig-zag walking

A kind of attitudinal or intentional walk in which one chooses a zig-zag pathway, choosing a feature in the environment to walk towards and changing chosen feature and direction at will. A way to subvert prescribed directionality, and view, of built urban pathways.

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