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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/64d. Total Eps: 35

the human experience in the non-human world: discussion and experiences on location and in the studio

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36. The Sun ~ power over us

Episode 54

Sunday, July 7, 2024 • Duration 40:56

Around the world there are over 100 human names that mean ‘The Sun’; perhaps the clearest evidence of us humans being inspired by, and acknowledging the significance of, a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star, a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core.

Its benevolence and its destructive capacity affect all aspects of our being, our cultures, our artworks, and take The Sun away and Polar Night makes us sad, detached, without energy, struggling to concentrate, struggling to stay awake. Give us too much of it and we cannot survive its power.

With music from Colin Williams

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Equinox

Rush

2001 A Space Odyssey

Richard Strauss ‘Sunrise’

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Carrington Event

Svalbard

Carl Nielson

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35. Tide ~ time & tidings

Episode 53

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 • Duration 41:10

A high tide coming

Will eat the land

A tide no breakwaters can withstand.

Act 1 Scene 1 Peter Grimes, Op. 33 Benjamin Britten, libretto Montagu Slater

On a cold winter's day, we go down to a river that becomes the sea and, in an exploration of the complex human relations with the tide, we go with the ‘ebb and flow’, feel the currents, watch the high water mark and study what gets cast up. We are waiting to see what the tide brings and what it takes away; especially at this time in human history.

With music from Colin Williams.

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Moby Duck

Just as the Tide was Flowing

25. Eva Gunnare. Wild Food ~ tradition & knowledge

Episode 43

Friday, July 10, 2020 • Duration 45:03

Food can be about more than taste, it can be about the gathering and that when you ‘spend a lot of time in Nature you have another relationship with it’. In this episode we learn much, especially about the uses of Arctic plants, from a joyous conversation with Eva Gunnare, who has made her home in Jokkmokk, a place that is the heart of indigenous Sami culture in Sweden.

Unlike may of us, the Sami have had a different connection to the land: they use it but do not own it and work together to make a living. Indigenous peoples can have deep-rooted traditions of using plants for medicine and food - a tradition where the difference between survival food and base food is knowledge, knowledge that can be lost but can also be kept alive.

Eva guides tours and gives ‘taste performances’ and you can find out more at her website. Eva's 'Rose' song:

"My rose, my lily, I would like to share every day of my life with you. When I have become gray, I have spent every day of my life with you". A love song that I usually dedicate my life in Jokkmokk with plants, people, forests and all.

All other music by Colin Williams

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Sámi Jokkmokk Stockholm Kvikkjokk Mountain Sorrel Padjelanta National Park Goahti turf hut Alpine Bistort

24. The Wolf ~ and humanity

Episode 42

Monday, June 8, 2020 • Duration 47:10

“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf”, Aldo Leopold. Prejudices, storytelling, popular culture and medieval demonisation populate the landscape we have created for the wolf; one that often bears little resemblance to the harsh and diverse landscapes they actually call home.

However, it is as a non-human creature that can seem all too human in its habits, that we humans seem to struggle the most. In this podcast we ponder the history of our relationship with wolves, the detail of how they live and where, the motifs we have created and how they live alongside us, and increasingly so. What is our future alongside wolves? What is the wolf’s future alongside us?

MUSIC BY COLIN WILLIAMS

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Yellowstone National Park Theodore Roosevelt Aldo Leopold David Mech Doug Smith Jim Halfpenny Dan Hartman Red Hot Chilli Peppers Rudyard Kipling Nunamiut Inupiat of Alaska Blackfoot Confederacy Pawnee Zuni Fenrir

23. Interspecies ~ a language between us?

Episode 41

Tuesday, May 12, 2020 • Duration 46:50

“Long ago when animals could speak …”. In this episode we explore the boundary lines between non-human species and ourselves, boundary lines that many indigenous peoples - and our ancestors - did not see, and the ability, or not for communication to pass across that boundary. Today, for western society, it is only in children’s novels that animals can speak and be heard.

So much is invested by animals in the biology of communication and we can teach creatures about human communication but is it inconceivable that they have an ability to speak to us in their form? In maintaining scientific distance do we only allowed artists and musicians to show us that other species have ‘language’ and we should not treat the non-human as less than ourselves?

TOGETHER WITH ADDITIONAL MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE BY DAVID ROTHENBERG

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Sitting Bull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull Tales from Ovid - Ted Hughes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Ovid Chaser - border collie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaser_(dog) Kanzi - bonobo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzi Raven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven Greater Honeyguide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_honeyguide Red-tailed Hawk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_hawk Watership Down The Jungle Book The Chronicles of Narnia John Masefield Sperm Whale Orca or Killer Whale Blue Whale Corky David Rothenberg Thousand Mile Song Birds Why Birds Sing Bug Music Eisteddfod Jim Nollman Dolphin Dreamtime Kamchatka Henry Beston Tree networks Plants and sound Himalayan Balsam David Abram Becoming Animal Prince Charles Real Magic - Dean Radin Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham Evelyn Glennie Monica Gagliano Plant Consciousness Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal World - Stephen Harrod Buhner Kurukindi

22. The River ~ all things merge into one

Episode 40

Wednesday, April 8, 2020 • Duration 44:44

The human and the non-human claim rivers as their own. By the banks of the River Kennet we conjour with our thoughts and experiences of rivers waters, along with those of a diverse cast of that includes: Roger Deakin, Bruce Springsteen, Norman Maclean, Masuru Emoto, Feargal Sharkey, Icy Sedgewick, Lewis Mumford, Michael Harner, Bedřich Smetana and Joseph Conrad.

We take in the travels, contours, myths, creatures, stories and spirits of rivers such as the: Awash, Tigris, Indus, Yellow, Nile, Danube, Amazon, Alde, Namada, Volga, Boyne, Crystal, Laxa, Congo, Moldau, Tana, and Everglades. We fight over them, deify them, we use them and misuse them, and yet what runs through them, because of us and despite us, is the the lifeblood of our world.

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

The River Kennet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Kennet Water Crowfoot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus_aquatilis Water Vole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_water_vole Grass Snake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_snake Reed Bunting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_reed_bunting Brown Trout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_trout Brook Lamprey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_lamprey Crayfish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austropotamobius_pallipes Mayfly Caddisfly Awash River River Tigris River Indus Yellow River River Nile River Danube River Amazon River Alde Emperor Claudius Boudicca Pied Kingfisher Water Monitor Lewis Mumford River Namada River Volga Isis River Boyne Kelpie Morgan Personhood for rivers Animism Roger Deakin West Indian Manatee Crystal River The Salmon of Knowledge Laxa Kushtaka, Tlingit Selkie Amazon River Dolphin The Grindylow Icy Sedgewick Peg Powla Hamish Henderson Goðafoss Michael Harner Mircia Eliade Achuar The Fighting Temeraire Heart of Darkness River Congo Apocalypse Now Bruce Springsteen The River Bedřich Smetana River Moldau Baiji Masuru Emoto Chlorpyrifos Chalk streams Feargal Sharkey River Tana Everglades Okavango Daintree Cantabria Norman Maclean

21. Roger Hardy, Rhett Griffiths. Sea Voices ~ Siren voices

Episode 39

Sunday, March 8, 2020 • Duration 41:39

How do we each respond to the environmental alarms that are being sounded by climate, nature, youth and the ocean? In this episode we feature interviews with Roger Hardy and Rhett Griffiths - wave-tossed thoughts from the tideline of the North Sea - plus a recording of Rhett’s epic poem ‘The Tipping Tide’.

Artists suggest different ways of seeing the world and, in response to these issues and as part of Siren Festival in 2019, artist and sculptor Roger Hardy created a powerful installation and multiple figurative sculptural piece on Aldeburgh beach entitled ‘Time and Tide’. He also created ‘Lookout’, a human figure gazing out at the sea from the South Beach Lookout. Here was also installed - in written form and in audio recoding - ‘The Tipping Tide’, a poem by Rhett Griffiths.

With extracts of Colin singing ‘Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy’, we explore what the sea says to us.

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Rhett Griffiths

poem - The Tipping Tide

Roger Hardy

Siren Festival Roger Hardy’s ‘Time and Tide’ Roger Hardy and Rhett Griffiths’ 'Lookout' and 'Tipping Tide' Lancaster Dawlish Aldeburgh Festival Suffolk Devi Singh

20. Owl ~ mythology, motif and mastery

Episode 38

Thursday, January 9, 2020 • Duration 48:11

An archetype, a creature that we impose human ideas, ideals, values and characteristics upon. An unknowable, untouchable creature of the dark, whose call provokes fear and awe. A silent, surreptitious, living breathing feathered predator, whose beyond-human abilities allow it to master the night and span almost every habitat on Earth. Which of these is Owl for you?

As a family of birds, owls are all of these and more, and we explore their role in human culture from 30,000 years ago to the present day, as well as sharing tales of owl encounters around the globe. Evil messenger and harbinger of Death? Wise councillor and friend from childhood literature? Owl can be what each of us bring to it but is also master of its world.

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Forest Eagle Owl Sinharaja, Sri Lanka Pliny the Elder Tengmalm’s Owl Florence Nightingale Pablo Picasso Winnie the Pooh Bagpuss Tawny Owl Eric Hosking Ural Owl Sir David Attenborough “In a hole with an owl”

19. Wilderness ~ is it beyond our reach?

Season 1 · Episode 37

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 • Duration 42:07

“What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”, said writer Aldo Leopold, and in this episode we revisit what the human concept of wilderness means and where we might find it. Unmodified, unspoiled, on the edge? When in our history was the point when humans changed their view of wilderness?

With incidental music from Colin, we consider how wilderness means many differing things to different people - it is ‘home’ for some and hostile for others - and discuss what our view of it says about us. Is our definition derived from an International Union for the Conservation of Nature edict, or is it reflect - or even imposed - by the human approach to the way we make art? Ultimately, is wilderness still a valid notion or is it beyond our reach, beyond our gift to bestow, at a time when perhaps we need it more than ever?

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Jane Smith Darren Rees Kitty Jones Chris Wallbank Julian Hoffman Beauchene Island, Falklands Bay of Biscay, France & Spain Pasvik Valley, Norway Unst, Shetland Spitsbergen Hoo Peninsular, England

18. The Sea ~ a prelude

Episode 36

Sunday, November 10, 2019 • Duration 19:10

The Sea ~ a prelude

Summoning the spirit of a forthcoming full podcast on The Sea, we tease with Rhett Griffiths reading an extract from his poem ‘The Tipping Tide’ (more of the poem and an interview to come), Colin singing ‘Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy’, plus wave-tossed thoughts recorded by the sea-washed shingle on the tideline of a grey North Sea.

All in rather lively STEREO by way of a change. Enjoy.

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