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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.

Presenter: Lionel Kellaway
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Lights, Camera, Landscape

December 21st, 2007 by Russell Davies

Here's a gentle fifteen minutes for you. Spend a little time hearing about how the Brecon Beacons is used to fill in for countless landscapes in movies, especially alien landscapes. There's a whole bunch of these but I only managed to grab the MP3 of this one. The rest have slipped into the great audiostream in the sky. Sorry. MP3 here

Presenter: Matthew Sweet
Producer: Esme Kennedy
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Analysis: One Wales?

November 4th, 2007 by Steve Bowbrick

It went like this: Matt Jones got a bit excited about the unprecedented collision of Welsh language politics and groovy Catalan network-sociologist Manuel Castells on Analysis. Russell and I noted that the edition he was going on about had been overwritten and whinged a bit about the absence of a proper Analysis archive. I suggested it would be fun to read out a transcript of the show for the speechification podcast.

So I beetled off to find the transcript (a feature of Analysis since before there were podcasts - or web sites for that matter) and found that... there isn't one. I wrote to the Analysis people wondering where it was and got an apologetic email from (award-winning) series editor Hugh Levinson. Hugh said that the transcripts had been cancelled because they were too expensive but offered me an MP3 of the show.

Bingo, I thought. I told Hugh it was for Speechification and he wrote back with some nice words about Speechification and an MP3. So, with a short delay (and a very BBC bottleneck) I bring you a really fascinating edition of Analysis about the passions and contradictions of indiginous language politics presented by Welshman Mukul Devichand (and featuring cheeky Catalan Manuel Castells) (MP3).

Editor: Hugh Levinson
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