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Music Matters

Sound and Nature

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Tom Service explores how sound and music in wildlife and nature films alter our perception of the natural world. How does music help tell stories of the natural environment? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Service
Interviewed Guest:
William Goodchild
Interviewed Guest:
Vanessa Berlowitz
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Hopkins
Interviewed Guest:
Jez Riley French
Interviewed Guest:
Pascal Wyse
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Palmer
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Macfarlane
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Grimley
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Peedom
Producer:
Andrew King

Music Matters

Sound and Nature

Duration: 45 minutes

Tom Service explores how sound and music in wildlife and nature films alters our perception of the natural world. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Service
Interviewed Guest:
William Goodchild
Interviewed Guest:
Vanessa Berlowitz
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Hopkins
Interviewed Guest:
Jez Riley French
Interviewed Guest:
Pascal Wyse
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Macfarlane
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Peedom
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Grimley

Secret Knowledge

The Living Mountain: A Cairngorms Journey

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Scotland HD

Available for years

Travel-writer Robert MacFarlane presents a documentary telling the story of Scottish poet and novelist Nan Shepherd and her book, The Living Mountain. Show more

Open Book

Robert Macfarlane on his new book Landmarks

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Presented by Mariella Frostrup. Travel and nature writer Robert Macfarlane discusses the relationship between language and landscape, the subject of his latest book, Landmarks. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Robert Macfarlane
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Bannan
Interviewed Guest:
Suzi Feay
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Hodgson

Ramblings

Series 24

Episode 4: In Search of the Old Ways

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Clare Balding walks with author and academic Robert Macfarlane from his home in Cambridge out onto the ancient Icknield Way. He reveals his love of tree-climbing and beech trees. Show more

Natural World

2009-2010

Episode 12: The Wild Places of Essex

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Wildlife documentary. Multi-award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane sets out on a journey to explore the unexpected landscapes and natural history of Essex. Show more

Front Row

Awol Erizku; Robert Macfarlane; Little Boy Blue; Gemma Bodinetz

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

He shot Beyonce's pregnancy portraits, now artist Awol Erizku has a new exhibition; Robert Macfarlane decodes clinkerbells and dagglers; Shelagh Fogarty reviews Little Boy Blue. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Awol Erizku
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Macfarlane
Interviewed Guest:
Shelagh Fogarty
Interviewed Guest:
Gemma Bodinetz
Presenter:
John Wilson
Producer:
Angie Nehring

Front Row

The Wolverine, Ian Dury's art, Man Booker longlist, James Blake

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

A review of The Wolverine, plus an exhibition of art by the late Ian Dury, the longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction, and James Blake's Cultural Exchange. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Jemima Dury
Interviewed Guest:
Humphrey Ocean
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Macfarlane
Interviewed Guest:
James Blake

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. Robert Macfarlane on vivid places and the words they conjure up: happy days in Suffolk at the home of a famous swimmer. From 2015. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Robert Macfarlane on vivid places and the words they conjure up: Essex, John Alec Baker and a peregrine falcon. From 2015. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Robert Macfarlane on vivid places and the words they conjure up: to the Lake District to meet a word collector. From 2015. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Robert Macfarlane on vivid places and the words they conjure up: Victorian Richard Jeffries in Surbiton. From 2015. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Robert Macfarlane on vivid places and the words they conjure up: children let loose in fields and forests. From 2015. Show more