Slow Radio: Penguins v Seals - Tristan da Cunha

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Penguins v Seals - Tristan da Cunha

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Wildlife in your ears from the world's most remote island community - Tristan da Cunha.

Sound rich montage with Joe Hollins - veterinarian for the most remote island community in the world. Today he is counting penguins and seals. Cows and sheep also get a look in...

With extraordinary close-up recordings of his life as a vet, the bird population, the wildlife, the sea and the shore, veterinarian Joe Hollins brings his time on the island of Tristan da Cunha to the ears of the Slow Radio listener.

Joe has recorded over 20 hours of close encounters with wild life and domestic animals, and this Slow Radio piece will take the chance to really zoom in on the incredible richness of sounds which he has recorded here over six months.

This is one of the most unique locations for untamed wild life and birds and this has enabled Joe to get right in there among the penguins, the seals, and the sea birds that cover the cliffs. He is also present at every part of the farmer's life - sawing the over grown horns of the sheep, birthing calves, and helping with the milking. 

The landscape itself is as rich a sound terrain - from getting on and off the tiny boats, and fishing vessels, scrabbling down the cliffs or into the heart of the volcano itself.

This will be one of those rare things - an animal paradise for the ears.


Producer: Sara Jane Hall 

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