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An adventure in nature recording with Izabela Dłuzyk.

Izabela Dłuzyk takes us on a sound journey around the ancient Białowieża Forest in Poland.

The sounds of wild Poland with nature recordist Izabela Dłuzyk is a long, immersive listen to the sounds of the wetlands and forests of the eastern Polish borderlands. Izabela has been recording since childhood, teaching herself the sounds of species by ear alone, as she was born without sight. She was given her tape recorder at the age of ten and went on long recording walks with her grandfather in her home town of Gdansk on the Baltic coast, capturing the voices of birds, frogs and anything they came across.  These early adventures set her on the path to a life-long passion for recording. 'Nature recording is an adventure,' she says 'a way of delving into another world.'  In this episode we're listening to the sounds of dawn in the Biebrza marshes and the Bialowieza primeval forest that's half in Poland and half in Belarus.

Recorded and presented by Izabela Dłuzyk.
Produced by Monica Whitlock
Mixed by Tom Brignell

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Izabela Dłuzyk takes us on a sound journey through Poland's ancient Białowieża Forest.

Izabela Dłuzyk, a Polish nature recordist, guides us through the ancient Białowieża Forest, a Unesco World Heritage site situated on the watershed of the Baltic Sea and Black Sea.

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