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Bonus Episode: Front Room Festival Highlights
14 Apr, 2020 ·
Folk on Foot
On Easter Bank Holiday Monday, April 13th 2020, we organised the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival - seven and a half hours of wonderful folk music from 15 top artists playing in their front rooms, linked by Matthew Bannister from his. Bella Hardy, Beth Po...
If you go down to the woods tonight
29 Mar, 2020 ·
Slow Radio
Have you ever wondered what goes bump in the woods at night? Hugh Huddy discovers the night time soundscape of a woodland in Suffolk by placing a binaural recording box in a tree and leaving it there overnight. Listening back to the recording, the secret l...
Rain On A Hot Tin Roof
22 Mar, 2020 ·
Slow Radio
An antidote to today’s frenzied world. Step back, let go, immerse yourself: it’s time to go slow.Listen to the sounds of birds, mountain climbing, monks chanting as you go about your day. A lo-fi celebration of pure sound.
Bella Hardy in Edale
12 Mar, 2020 ·
Folk on Foot
The singer, songwriter and fiddle player Bella Hardy takes Matthew for a rain-sodden walk through the majestic countryside of the Edale Valley in the Peak District where she was brought up and has now returned to live. Undaunted by the weather, they go to ...
From Dadar to the Stars
23 Feb, 2020 ·
Slow Radio
An intimate, breath-close binaural portrait of the intoxicating Indian city of Mumbai.
Seals and Selkie Folk
16 Feb, 2020 ·
Slow Radio
Writer and poet Susan Richardson invites us to a seal pupping beach on the Pembrokeshire coast; a world that has inspired tales of shape-shifting selkie folk and mermaids.We stand above a cove. The air is filled with the haunting cries of the grey seals be...
Peggy Seeger in Iffley
13 Feb, 2020 ·
Folk on Foot
After a life on the road, folk legend Peggy Seeger has settled in the village of Iffley on the outskirts of Oxford. In this episode she talks poignantly about her mother, a talented composer who died when she was fifty-three and Peggy was just eighteen. ...
Sounds of the Earth – February
10 Feb, 2020 ·
Slow Radio
A montage of music and natural sounds including whale song and Tundra swans.
Sounds of the Earth – January
26 Jan, 2020 ·
Slow Radio
A montage of music and natural sounds including an Antarctic fur seal and her pup, Yellow-billed storks, and a Himalayan snowcock.
Kris Drever on Orkney
16 Jan, 2020 ·
Folk on Foot
The guitarist, singer and songwriter Kris Drever was born and brought up on Orkney, the archipelago off the Northern coast of Scotland which is steeped in history. The walk starts in the main town of Kirkwall with its huge sandstone cathedral commemorating...
The Last Oozings – Cider Making in Somerset
22 Dec, 2019 ·
Slow Radio
Britain has lost 90% of its traditional orchards. So, seven years ago the villagers of Haselbury Plucknett planted a Somerset orchard: 35 cider apple trees, all old varieties with names as gorgeous as their colours - Kingston Black, Sweet Crimson King, Sla...
Bonus Xmas Episode: The Sheffield Carols with Jon Boden, Bella Hardy and The Melrose Quartet
12 Dec, 2019 ·
Folk on Foot
In search of the festive spirit of Christmas – and bearing gifts - we travel to the Peak District and Sheffield to hear the area’s unique local carols. Along the way we collect music from Jon Boden, Bella Hardy, The Melrose Quartet and the singers of...
Sounds of the Earth – December
6 Dec, 2019 ·
Slow Radio
A montage of music and natural sounds from the Abernethy Forest in the Scottish Highlands, coniferous woodland that is home to chaffinches, wren, willow warblers, mistle thrush, Scottish crossbills and more; we meet an Oscillated Turkey, native to the rain...
John Jones and the Reluctant Ramblers walking to the Wickham Festival
14 Nov, 2019 ·
Folk on Foot
This episode has by far the largest cast of walkers we’ve ever assembled – and the most musicians. The lead singer of Oysterband John Jones started walking from gig to gig and singing on the way long before our podcast was invented. He’s done it al...
Sounds of the Earth – November
10 Nov, 2019 ·
Slow Radio
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the chirping of nesting seabirds on a remote island to night-time in the marshes of Trinidad, sounds from the banks of a mighty Kenyan river and the waking dawn in the heart of Southern India.
The Sounds of Al-Andalus
4 Nov, 2019 ·
Slow Radio
A journey in sound across the lands intimately associated with Al-Andalus, medieval Moorish Spain and Portugal. Starting in Granada at the glorious Alhambra Palace, we hear the running water of the fountains that adorn the palace as well as the sound of mo...
Listening to Lalibela
3 Nov, 2019 ·
Slow Radio
In 1968 Redzi Bernard's mother arrived in Lalibela - Ethiopia's holy city - on a mule after an arduous trek through the mountains. Earlier this year Redzi recreated her mother's journey and when she arrived in Lalibela she discovered a timeless world. Just...
Downtown Nashville, Tennessee
28 Oct, 2019 ·
Slow Radio
Think of the American South and one man-made sound plays out evocatively across the landscape: the horn of a passing freight train. For a century and a half it's been almost synonymous with the idea of America, particularly where the rural blends with the ...
Sounds of the Earth – October
18 Oct, 2019 ·
Slow Radio
A montage of music and natural sounds from farmland in Somerset where willow warblers, robins and swallows merge with the faint chirp of crickets; a group of white rhinos going about their daily business in KwaZulu Natal; a troupe of busy white-throated Ca...
Nancy Kerr along the Kennet and Avon Canal
17 Oct, 2019 ·
Folk on Foot
For twelve years, the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nancy Kerr lived on a narrow boat, travelling the length and breadth of England’s inland waterways. As she walks on the towpath with Matthew Bannister, she tells how the experience inspir...