Autumn Ivy
December 11th, 2009 by Steve Bowbrick
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.
Elegiac, pre-dawn listening from my favourite provider of... er... elegiac pre-dawn listening: Lionel Kellaway. This edition of The Living World comes from an ancient rookery in Norfolk - nighttime home (since at least the Norman invasion) to tens of thousands of rooks. I feel almost certain that if there is a heaven (which, obviously, there isn't) it'll be people like Kellaway who provide the soundtrack (
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