EPISODE · Jun 15, 2021 · 25 MIN
unearthings - east anglian pastoral
from Unearthings · host sanderson & sanderson
A summer's day in deepest darkest East Anglia, and a record of the changing physical and sonic landscapes of the countryside. It's an area of ghost airfields, buried history, and vast wide open fields under a vast wide open sky. Transcription of larksong by Professor Walter Garstang. Voices - Mr. William Aldred, an 80 year-old farmhand, recorded in 1936 Professor H. C. Wyld (reading an extract from Beowulf) Basil Brown, the archaeologist responsible for the discovery of the ship burial at Sutton Hoo Olivia Masi, reading her poem and talking about the disappearance of corncrakes from the countryside
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A summer's day in deepest darkest East Anglia, and a record of the changing physical and sonic landscapes of the countryside. It's an area of ghost airfields, buried history, and vast wide open fields under a vast wide open sky. Transcription of larksong by Professor Walter Garstang. Voices - Mr. William Aldred, an 80 year-old farmhand, recorded in 1936 Professor H. C. Wyld (reading an extract from Beowulf) Basil Brown, the archaeologist responsible for the discovery of the ship burial at Sutton Hoo Olivia Masi, reading her poem and talking about the disappearance of corncrakes from the countryside
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