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Forgotten Sounds
4 Oct, 2018 ·
Slow Radio
The music of typewriters, steam engines, foundries and looms. These previously-familiar, now long-forgotten sounds transport us back in time, evoking memories, and creating a strangely meditative effect. Composer Iain Chambers creates a radiophonic sequenc...
Bonus Episode: Six Songs from Season 1
19 Sep, 2018 ·
Folk on Foot
Featuring: Eliza Carthy and Family: “Some Old Salty”; Steve Knightley: “The Dive”; Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman: “The Leaving Song”; The Young’uns: “The Hartlepool Pedlar”; Sam Lee: “The Birds in the Spring”; Karine Polwart: “T...
Cara Dillon in Dungiven
5 Sep, 2018 ·
Folk on Foot
The multi award winning singer Cara Dillon and her husband and musical collaborator Sam Lakeman take Matthew on a walk through the countryside around the Northern Irish town of Dungiven where she was born and brought up. Standing on an iron bridge over the...
Steve Knightley on the Exe Trail
29 Aug, 2018 ·
Folk on Foot
Steve Knightley of Show of Hands has been described as “a gravel voiced spokesman for the rural poor”. Many of the songs he writes are inspired by the working people he meets in and around his home town of Topsham in Devon. Steve takes Matthew on a wa...
Eliza Carthy (and Family) in Robin Hood's Bay
22 Aug, 2018 ·
Folk on Foot
Eliza Carthy inherited her love of English music from her famous folk singing parents, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Norma recently suffered a serious illness and Eliza moved back to the family home in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Robin Hood�...
Sam Lee singing with Nightingales in Sussex
15 Aug, 2018 ·
Folk on Foot
Mercury music prize nominee Sam Lee is a folk singer, a countryman and an impresario. In this episode of Folk on Foot he invites Matthew to join him in a Sussex wood in the middle of the night as he leads a group of people on a silent walk to hear him sing...
Karine Polwart at Fala Moor
8 Aug, 2018 ·
Folk on Foot
Karine Polwart’s solo theatre piece “Wind Resistance” and album “A Pocket of Wind Resistance” were inspired by Fala Moor near her home in Midlothian just south of Edinburgh. She takes Matthew for a walk across the Moor which is a haven for wildli...
The Young'uns in Hartlepool
1 Aug, 2018 ·
Folk on Foot
The Young’uns are three award winning troubadours from Teeside. Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes take Matthew Bannister on a walk round the historic headland of Hartlepool where Sean used to live in a shed in his parents’ back garden. Along ...
Season 1 Trailer
29 Jul, 2018 ·
Folk on Foot
A taster of what is coming up in our first season of Folk on Foot. You'll hear extracts from Karine Polwart on Fala Moor, the Young'uns in Hartlepool and Steve Knightley on the Exe Trail. More details at folkonfoot.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
Slow sheep in Southern Spain
1 Jul, 2018 ·
Slow Radio
Writer Chris Stewart takes us to meet some shepherds in the mountains of Alpujarras, plus introduces us to some of his own sheep. Featuring music from Nathaniel Mann.
Nightingales
27 May, 2018 ·
Slow Radio
The woods are the setting for a magical late night duet between a musician and a nightingale. Verity Sharp eavesdrops on shakuhachi player Clive Bell and an unseen yet vocal co-performer.
A late night trip across Kabukicho, Tokyo’s entertainment district
20 May, 2018 ·
Slow Radio
Nick Luscombe heads out for a late night trip across ‘sleepless town’, Tokyo’s ancient entertainment district, known for it’s bright lights, late night drinking dens and seedy back streets. Armed with his recorder and a local friend for guidance, ...
A visit to a snowy forest near Oslo
13 May, 2018 ·
Slow Radio
Renowned artist, field recordist and environmentalist Jana Winderen has returned to record natural sounds in this area for many years. In this recording you can hear her capture an icy, dripping brook and hibernating tadpoles beneath the snow. Originally b...
Nick Luscombe’s Japanese journey
6 May, 2018 ·
Slow Radio
A hyper-real sonic journey through Japan's multifaceted soundscapes. With recordings of the natural environment, human activity, domestic sounds and noisy video arcades plus many of the wonderful ceremonies that are intrinsic to modern Japan. All captured ...
Bach Walks
24 Dec, 2017 ·
Slow Radio
In 1705, a young composer embarked on an epic journey to meet his musical hero. Johann Sebastian Bach was just 20 years old when he set out on foot to walk the 250 miles to Lübeck, home to the great composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude. Horatio Clare ...
Dementia voices
17 Dec, 2017 ·
Slow Radio
People with dementias and their carers talk movingly about their everyday lives. This edition of our podcast is a collaboration with Wellcome Trust’s Created out of Mind - an interdisciplinary team of scientists, artists, musicians, broadcasters and clin...
Sounds of a mountain climb in the Lake District
11 Dec, 2017 ·
Slow Radio
The poet Helen Mort and her friend Andrew walk from The Old Dungeon Ghyll - a famous hikers and climbers pub in Great Langdale - up to Raven Crag where they climb Middle Fell Buttress on a very wintery day at the end of July.
An immersive experience of the British countryside
3 Dec, 2017 ·
Slow Radio
The sounds of a walk along Offa's Dyke, with Horatio Clare.
A journey along the Sacred River
26 Nov, 2017 ·
Slow Radio
Sounds of the sacred from around the world, introduced by Neil MacGregor.
Life on a shanty boat
19 Nov, 2017 ·
Slow Radio
A 20-minute watery odyssey - idling down the Tennessee River with the best thunderstorm in a tin shack you are ever going to hear... and some frogs…In the company of Betty Goines, who grew up on a shanty boat during the depression, Wes Modes takes his r...