Wilderness Tracks // Timber Festival
Geoff Bird presents the Wilderness Tracks; an hour long discussion with a selection of writers, artists, scientists and thinkers asking them to choose six tracks which soundtrack their relationship with nature.
Episodes
24 episodes
Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus is a writer, poet, and broadcaster. He is the author of poetry collections, To Sweeten Bitter; The Perseverance and All The Names Given, as well as children’s picture book Can Bears Ski?, illustrated by Polly Dunbar. In 2022 th...
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49:45
Janet Ellis
Actress, presenter and author Janet Ellis joins Geoff Bird for a live recording on our Wilderness Tracks podcast. Janet discusses the six pieces of music that connect her to nat...
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53:30
Raynor Winn
Raynor Winn, author of the international bestsellers The Salt Path and The Wild Silence, talks to Geoff about her six nature-related tracks. Sharing the inspiration behind her 'Wilderness Tracks', Raynor takes us ...
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49:58
Meditate - Sounds of the Forest Soundscapes
Place yourself gently amongst the sounds of the world’s woodlands and the caressing tremor of ambient gongs in order to centre your mind, improve mindfulness and find inner peace. This is the Sounds of the Forest podcast — three episode...
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Focus - Sounds of the Forest Soundscapes
Use the forest as a place to find focus, whether that be for study, work or a sense of clarity. Find inspiration in the vibrant and fresh sounds of nature with this beautiful soundscape as the trees sway, the leaves rustle and the birds sing. <...
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24:56
Calm - Sounds of the Forest Soundscapes
Immerse yourself in the soothing sounds of the great global wildwood in order to ease your mind and calm your senses. Slow down, breathe deeper and find tranquility as you tune in to the harmonies of the natural world.This is the Sounds...
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24:58
Introducing... Sounds of the Forest Soundscapes
From the January 10th, Timber Festival will be bringing you three unique tracks featuring sounds of forests and woodlands from around the world. Harness the power of nature to calm your senses, focus your mind and guide you in quiet meditation....
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Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes, an award-winning comedian, author, journalist, and broadcaster talks to Geoff Bird about her six nature-related tracks. Although, Natalie claims not to know much about music, her selections paint a vivid picture of her influence...
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47:11
Testament
Hip-Hop MC, writer, theatre maker and world record breaking human beatboxer Testament talks about his six tracks inspired by nature. He talks about discovering beauty in the banal when doing a English project in rural Suffolk, the poetic ...
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47:44
Boff Whalley
Chumbawumba-star turned author Boff Whalley talks about fell-running, the arthouse film Koyaanisqatsi and Philip Glass’ seminal soundtrack, the right to roam, the power of art and music to galvanise social change and even performing his own son...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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46:10
Gavin Esler
Broadcast journalist Gavin Esler discusses his politically charged book How Britain Ends - how he travelled across the devolved four nations of Britain in writing the book, a chance encounter with Native American flutist Carlos Nakai, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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56:57
Simon Armitage
After a brilliant 2021 Timber Festival, we're back with another episode from this year's celebration in the National Forest. Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, joins his old friend Geoff to talk about his shifting relationship with nature, gushing ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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51:18
Julie Hesmondhalgh
Beloved Lancashire actor, known for playing Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street, Julie Hesmondhalgh joins us for Wilderness Tracks recorded live at Timber Festival 2021. Julie is deeply passionate about nature and has written about it as a spac...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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50:51
Dame Evelyn Glennie
Dame Evelyn Glennie, arguably the world's premier percussionist talks us through creating the sound of icicles, growing up in remote Scotland, the 'feel' of sound, her wonderful peripatetic schoolteacher, playing flowerpots to stunn...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:00:25
Cal Major
Cal Major: ocean advocate, veterinary surgeon,adventure-seeker and proper paddleboarder sits down with Geoff Bird to discuss her six nature related tracks that chronicle her journey around activism. She covers why it's important to remain posit...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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59:03
Melissa Harrison
Novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison takes Goeff Bird on a walk around her rural Suffolk locale to discuss her six nature related tracks. Her latest book, 'The Stubborn Light of Things', also came in the form a podcast over the course o...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:01:07
Baroness Floella Benjamin
The beloved actress and childrens tv presenter, Baroness Floelle Benjamin talks of nurturing her family garden, the velvety qualities of Sarah Vaughan’s voice, singing on stage with her jazz-playing dad and how important it was for her to see J...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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43:01
Max Porter
The author of 'Grief is the Thing with Feathers' and 'Lanny', Max Porter, walks with Geoff through a woodland near Bath, talks about playing the clarinet (cue Gerald Finzi's Clarinet Concerto), listening for birds, June Tabor, the relatio...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:14:42
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
The space scientist and BBC presenter of The Sky at Night, joins Geoff Bird to discuss her obsession with the moon, viewing the lights of London from Hampstead Heath, her plans to retire to Mars and contemplates the natural beauty of t...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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50:45
Laura Barton
The world-renowned music writer Laura Barton talks about the sublime sounds of Andrew Bird, Smog and John Benjamin, the evocative power of songs and how she ended up friends with Bon Iver's dad. — In the Wilderness Tracks, writers, arti...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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50:23
Phill Jupitus
Geoff sits down with one of our best-loved comedians; sometime artist and Never Mind the Buzzcocks veteran Phill Jupitus. They talk travelling, the physicality of geography and the incredible microclimate of Fife, the place Phill now calls home...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:00:26
Elizabeth Alker
For anyone who caught Elizabeth Alker’s ambient set at the Eyrie Stage at Timber 2018, they might spot one or two of the selections creeping into this wilderness tracklist. Her choices are a fascinating reflection of her musical tastes as well ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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