As the Season Turns

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

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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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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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,…

  4. 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…

  5. 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.…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. 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…

  10. 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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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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