As the Season Turns

Monthly guide to natural history, music and folklore through the seasons AI summary

Ffern Visit website › Arts · EN · 119 episodes · latest 2026-11-01

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This guide to the month ahead will help you to settle deeper into the seasons. On the first of the month, nature writer Lia Leendertz presents natural history, music and folklore in our engaging patchwork format. While in our mid-month Found Sounds series, field recordist Alice Boyd meets people inspired by folk arts and the landscape. As the Season Turns is created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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November

2026-11-01 · 38 min · Season 6, episode 23

For November we are in the glen, where despite the dark damp of autumn, treasures abound. Bright ferns, mosses and fungi glow on steep slopes of rock, each species with its own stories to tell. In the stony stream of…
Found Sound for October: Emma Thistlethwaite

2026-10-16 · 24 min · Season 6, episode 22

For October, Alice visits Emma Thistlethwaite, founder of floral design studio Thistle by Nature, at her workshop in Gloucestershire. As autumn settles in, Emma weaves a wreath from heather, while they talk about…
October

2026-10-01 · 38 min · Season 6, episode 21

For October we’re amid grass-spiked sand dunes, where small birds scrap over autumn berries. Late bees search for nectar ahead of winter, a rare toad crouches amid the roses and sea buckthorn, and the wind whistles,…
Found Sound for September: Charlotte Church

2026-09-18 · 25 min · Season 6, episode 20

For September, Alice visits iconic Welsh singer Charlotte Church at The Dreaming, the retreat she has created in the Welsh countryside. Alice and Charlotte explore the ancient Welsh rainforest as their conversation…
September

2026-09-01 · 33 min · Season 6, episode 19

For September, we’re on a shingle beach, where the shifting pebbles reveal unexpected life. Tall stalks of wild fennel have long memories to share, while above us black-headed gulls call insistently in the fading sky.…
Found sound For August: Jackie Morris

2026-08-14 · 28 min · Season 6, episode 18

Jackie Morris has the word ‘entrance’ on her studio floor - to remind her that’s her job, she says. For August, Alice visited Jackie at home on the wild Pembrokeshire coast, to be entranced by Jackie’s reflections on…
August

2026-08-01 · 37 min · Season 6, episode 17

In this August episode, it’s an unsettled day on the estuary. As the tide retreats the mud gives up its treasures - molluscs, aromatic wild herbs and the calls of wetland birds. In the water, small sharks scull through…
Found Sound for July: Errol Reuben Fernandes

2026-07-17 · 25 min · Season 6, episode 16

This July, Alice meets gardener and artist Errol Reuben Fernandes, Head of Horticulture at south east London’s Horniman Museum and Gardens. Errol leads Alice to an overlooked place that’s been special to him since…
July

2026-07-01 · 33 min · Season 6, episode 15

For July, we’ve arrived by the sea - strolling along the rocky shore to find fossils at our feet, while swifts and swallows whisk along the sand. The rockpools burst with anemones and crabs, and we forage for seaweed…
As the Season Turns presents Muco and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

2026-06-26 · 20 min · Season 6, episode 14

As the Season Turns presents singer and composer Muco as he ventures to find a hidden Medieval chapel in Dorset and share his unique musical interpretation of the Arthurian legend – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight –…

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Owner: As the Season Turns
Oldest episode in feed: 12/2020 · over 5 years
Typical length: 23 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
Keywords: ffern, folklore, fragrance, nature, wildlife, folk, music, seasons

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