Items of Interest Worth Remembering
Melissa Harrison has begun a podcast – and it is absolutely brilliant.
Recording her walks through the Suffolk countryside where she makes her home, “The Stubborn Light of Things” offers listeners an exquisitely gentle, relaxing, running – well, walking, perhaps even ambling, actually – commentary on the nature she observes around her on her journeys, as well as the sounds of the English countryside that are more than enough to make a Anglophile pastoralist weep tears of joy.
As I, like so many other naturalists, have long kept a dated record of the natural events I witness occurring around me throughout the year, I was recently delighted to discover when and how the practice is able to be documented as beginning.
As I love natural history, and always enjoy a good laugh (every bit as much as my wife, and some of her friends, oh yes, and Captain Johnson…), I was very excited to discover that an auditory combination of both of these joys been created by noted comedienne Sue Perkins and the nice people at BBC Radio 4: Nature Table.
As a rather serious-minded person, I tend to be somewhat picky about the sources I turn to for news and opinion. Which is why I check in regularly on the Deutsche Welle News website, and keep both their Inside Europe and WorldLink podcasts in my podcast feed.