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Autumn Ivy

December 11th, 2009 by Steve Bowbrick

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Yes. It's a documentary about ivy. So you'll learn more than you've been planning to learn about ivy lately. But it's also a gorgeous trip through the soundworld of mid-Wales. Put your headphones on: sheep, birdsong, all the intimate and incidental sounds of a walk in the Autumn countryside. Also the relaxed, unconscious, almost hypnotic ease of a seasoned broadcaster - Lionel Kellaway. Musical and quite intoxicating (MP3).

This programme - with all the other Radio 4 nature programmes - is available to listen to permanently on the web site (no seven-day expiry here). There's also an excellent, year-round podcast. I mentioned this one on my Listen with Bowbrick Twitter feed the other day too.

The picture is green/red ivy by Alex Pears and it's used under licence.

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On Autumn

October 21st, 2008 by James Bridle

Another shortie. On yesterday's PM, Eddie Mair talked to Alan Power, head gardener at Stourhead, the National Trust's 18th-century landscape garden and Palladian mansion in Wiltshire. Apparently we're experiencing one of the most spectacular Autumns for years (I've certainly noticed it), and Alan is wonderfully knowledgeable, and wonderfully placed to describe it [MP3]. Give the man a radio show!

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