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The Walks Around Britain Podcast is back!

4 Jan, 2019 · Walks around Britain
After a break of 2 years, the monthly Walks Around Britain is back - from the 30th October 2019. For more details, visit our website at www.walksaroundbritain.co.uk/podcasts Every edition of Walks Around Britain is available on demand on our "Netflix ...

A festive reindeer wonderland

20 Dec, 2018 · Slow Radio
Have yourself a serene little Radio 3 Christmas with the sounds of reindeer, festive music and a secret, enchanted wood. This special edition of the Slow Radio Podcast comprises two very different audio recordings. The first is of reindeer, and more of the...

Divine love of the monastery

20 Dec, 2018 · Slow Radio
Benedictine monks speak about their experiences of divine love against a background of chant and sounds that evoke the peace and serenity of the monastery.This episode of Slow Radio was originally podcasted in October 2017. We're grateful to the monks of P...

Monks and meditation

20 Dec, 2018 · Slow Radio
Benedictine monks speak about how they find focus, against a background of chant and sounds that evoke the peace and serenity of the monastery.This episode of Slow Radio was originally podcasted in October 2017. We're grateful to the monks of Pluscarden Ab...

Living and working in a monastery

20 Dec, 2018 · Slow Radio
Benedictine monks meditate on the subject of work - from cooking to weaving and beekeeping - against a background of chant and sounds that evoke the peace and serenity of the monastery. This episode of Slow Radio was originally podcasted in October 2017....

Wordless prayer

20 Dec, 2018 · Slow Radio
Monks from Downside, Belmont and Pluscarden Abbeys meditate on the subject of prayer, against a background of chant and sounds that evoke the peace and serenity of the monastery.This episode of Slow Radio was originally podcasted in October 2017. We're gra...

The silence of the monastery

20 Dec, 2018 · Slow Radio
Monks from Downside, Belmont and Pluscarden Abbeys meditate on the nature of silence, against a background of chant and sounds that evoke the peace and serenity of the monastery.This episode of Slow Radio was originally podcasted in October 2017. We're gra...

Kerry Andrew/You Are Wolf at the Brockwell Lido

13 Dec, 2018 · Folk on Foot
Kerry Andrew has been described by Robert Macfarlane as “a writer and musician of frankly alarming talent”. She is a composer, novelist and vocalist who performs alt folk under the name You Are Wolf. In this episode she takes Matthew for a walk from he...

Midnight at the Oasis

6 Dec, 2018 · Slow Radio
Kalahari means ‘large thirst’ in the local language and between November and February summer temperatures can reach well over 40 degrees centigrade. To avoid the dry desiccating heat much of the wildlife has adopted nocturnal habits. Wildlife sound rec...

The Last Elfdalians

29 Nov, 2018 · Slow Radio
Spoken in the remote forest region of Älvdalen - a place thick with forest and steep valleys - Elfdalian used to be the main language of the area, but Swedish has increasingly become dominant and few young people speak it today. In this slow radio edit,...

Into the Forest – Sherwood Forest

22 Nov, 2018 · Slow Radio
Step into Sherwood Forest at night with tawny owls calling to each other in the trees. As daylight comes, a flock of long tailed tits forages through the branches.

Sounds of the Earth

18 Nov, 2018 · Slow Radio
Nestle for a while with coots, moorhens and bearded tits from a reed-bed in Humberside, clapper larks rising up from the grasslands of the Kalahari, autumnal sounds of squirrels and nuthatches from the woodlands in Virginia and a spooky Hallowe’en sounds...

Seth Lakeman on Dartmoor

15 Nov, 2018 · Folk on Foot
Seth Lakeman is the Mercury Music Prize nominated singer, fiddle player and guitarist who will forever be associated with Dartmoor. He grew up in the village of Buckland Monachorum with his two brothers Sean and Sam who are also key players on the folk sce...

Armistice Sonic Memorials

10 Nov, 2018 · Slow Radio
The sounds of battlefields across the world today – from the Somme to the USA, and Afghanistan to Vietnam. Presented by the BBC’s former special correspondent, Allan Little.

Walking Through Time

1 Nov, 2018 · Slow Radio
A meditation on the meaning of time, whilst wandering through the largest collection of clocks in the country.

A walk in the New Forest

25 Oct, 2018 · Slow Radio
Calming birdsong and the crunch of leaves from the New Forest in spring.

Jon Boden in the Loxley Valley

18 Oct, 2018 · Folk on Foot
The former Bellowhead lead singer takes Matthew on a walk near his home on the outskirts of Sheffield. This landscape inspired his 2009 album “Songs from the Floodplain”, which creates a vision of a post apocalyptic future when industrial architecture ...

Sounds of the Earth

18 Oct, 2018 · Slow Radio
Escape from the frenzy of today's world with the dawn chorus from an orchard in the Cotswolds, warblers and skylarks in a Japanese paddy field, and the sounds that accompany the sunset over Florida's Everglades.

Season 2 Trailer

12 Oct, 2018 · Folk on Foot
A first chance to hear some extracts from Season 2 of Folk on Foot. This time we'll be walking with: Jon Boden in the Loxley Valley; Seth Lakeman on Dartmoor; Kerry Andrew at the Brockwell Lido; Fisherman’s Friends in Port Isaac; Stick in the Wheel on th...

A moment of calm in Gwydyr Forest

11 Oct, 2018 · Slow Radio
Get surrounded by nature - birdsong, rustling leaves and the stillness of the forest.

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A person, book, map, etc. that frames a series of walks and points of observation and contemplation with a particular town, city or landscape – it often places the fictional, fanciful, fragile and personal on equal terms with tangible, municipal history.

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